Preface

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This special issue of Natural Computing is dedicated to cellular automata and related systems. It is based on AUTOMATA 2018, the 24th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems, held in Ghent, Belgium, June 20–22, 2018. AUTOMATA 2018 was organized by the Research Unit Knowledge-based Systems of the Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling of Ghent University. The event was an IFIP Working Conference and it hosted the annual meeting of the IFIP Working Group 1.5. AUTOMATA 2018 continued an annual series of workshops established in 1995 as a forum for the collaboration of researchers in the field of cellular automata and related discrete complex systems. The purpose of this workshop is to highlight the major advances in the field and the development of new tools, to support the development of theory and applications of CA and DCS and to identify and study within an inter- and multidisciplinary context, the important fundamental aspects, concepts, notions and problems concerning CA and DCS. …