Creative and Adversarial Cellular Automata for Simulating Resilience in Industry 5.0

Abstract

Emerging Industry 5.0 pushes advanced automation towards resilient solutions with enhanced human role. Resilience as an ability to sustain processes in the face of disruptions and adversarial attacks requires careful modelling and simulation. Cellular automata are efficient mathematical models used to simulate the behavior of complex systems, which change their state based on a set of predefined rules. In this paper, we suggest several updates to cellular automata (particularly Conway's “Game of Life”) to address resilience. These include “Life and Creation”, “War and Peace”, and their hybrid “War and Creation” capable of addressing the important components of resilience, such as controllable creativity and adversarial interactions. Inherited in these updates and known advantages of cellular automata, such as simplicity, emergent behavior, parallelism, and adaptability, makes it a powerful simulation tool for a wide range of Industry 5.0 systems that involve humans, smart infrastructure, their complex and adversarial interactions, safety, and resilience. See presentation slides: https://ai.it.jyu.fi/ISM-2023-Cellular_Automata.pptx