Special Issue: Selected Papers from the Second Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology, 2023 (ASCAT 2023)

This special issue contains five papers on cellular automata and their applications, preliminary versions of which were presented at the Second Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology, 2023 (ASCAT 2023). The symposium was officially organized by the departments of Information Technology and Computer Science and Technology of Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST, Shibpur), India, March 2– 4, 2023, in hybrid mode. The ASCAT is marked as an annual event of Cellular Automata India, an open research group that was created to understand, apply and explore several directions about the nature, formalism and applications of cellular automata theory. In this symposium, 14 papers were selected for presentation. Based on the review reports of the papers, we invited the authors of eight papers to submit extended versions for possible inclusion in the planned special issue. ASCAT 2023 organized a PhD forum, whose participants were also invited to submit the unpublished work of their PhD research. All the PhD submissions were reviewed carefully, and finally five papers were chosen for this special issue. Out of these five papers, one is from the PhD forum and the rest are extended versions of the presented works. We thank all the authors for their effort. We are very greatly thankful to the reviewers who gave their time to review the papers and to select these five papers. We are sure that these papers contribute to the field of cellular automata and related subjects.