Cellular Automata Applications for Research and Industry

For several decades the Cellular Automata (CA) modeling approach has been proven to be self-sufficient to inspire modelers and practitioners on how to apply successfully their ideas on modern computational platforms by using their inherent parallelism enabling high performance computing and modeling. One can easily describe CA as a mature parallel computational system robust enough to evolve or better say to adapt itself to the new computing paradigms of multiprocessors and graphical processing units with noteworthy efficacy and admirable modeling results. This Special Section is exactly dedicated to the application of CA paradigm to research and industry containing extended versions of papers originally published in proceedings of 11th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2014), a biannual conference dedicated to CA theory and applications, including also papers submitted in reference to the corresponding open Call for Papers in the context of Journal of Computational Science.