February 25-27, 2026, NIT Calicut (India)
Fifth Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology
(ASCAT 2026)
This is the fifth edition of the Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT) to be held during February 25-27, 2026. The first edition of ASCAT (ASCAT 2022) was held during March 03-05, 2022 in online mode. This time the event is being held in person. The symposium is officially organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institite of Technology, Calicut (NIT, Calicut) in its campus at Kerala, India. The symposium is unique by its type -- it does not look cellular automata as only mathematical tool, but also as technology.
The symposium aims two-fold: to nurture the theories of cellular automata, and to explore the cellular automata as technology. So all the theoretical aspects of cellular automata and their applications in any domain are within the scope of this symposium.
Important Dates
Paper Submission deadline: Friday, October 24, 2025 Friday, November 07, 2025
Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Deadline for camera-ready papers: Monday, January 05, 2026
Topics
Algebraic and Theoretical aspects of CA
- Algorithmic and Complexity issues in Cellular Automata
- Formal Language Processing
- Cellular Automata and Logic
- Randomness
- Reversibility and Cycle structure
- Algebraic properties of Cellular Automata and Discrete Systems
- Characterization tools for Cellular Automata
- Conservation Laws and Cellular Automata
Cellular Automata Models and Computation
- Traffic models and Crowd dynamics
- Models for Distributed and Parallel Systems
- Lattice Gas and Lattice Boltzmann model
- Environmental, Social and Economical Modeling and Simulation
- Natural Computing
- Reversible and Quantum Computing
- Cellular Automata Architecture for Computation
- Cellular Automata for Computing-in-Memory Architecture
- Cellular Automata with Memory
- Integration of CA and Agent-based modeling
- Sandpile Cellular Automata
Non-uniformity in Cellular Automata
- Non-uniform or Hybrid CA
- Asynchronous Cellular Automata
- Stochastic Cellular Automata
- Network Automata
Cellular Automata, Hardware Design and Security
- Circuit Design and Computer Architecture
- Quantum-dot Cellular Automata
- Memristor Design
- Security and Encryption
- Cryptography
- Secured Hardware Design
Quantum-dot Cellular Automata
- Logic Gates and Circuit Design
- Quiescent Quantum Cellular Automata
- Quantum Gate Cellular Automata
- Universal Quantum Cellular Automata
- Quantum computing
- Quantum lattice gases
- Quantum Reversible Automata Quantum Nano-Automata
Cellular Automata, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Life
- Pattern Recognition
- Machine Learning
- Bioinformatics
- Image and Video Processing
Emerging Applications of Cellular Automata
- Ecological issues
- Urban development
- Graph Colouring
- Sensor network applications
ABOUT
The symposium is organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, India
Invited Speakers
Springer Nature in the book series CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science)
Extended versions of a selected number of papers presented at the conference is planned to be published in a special issue of Complex Systems.