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Starting from the previous century up to today, various modeling prototypes with unique features, special characteristics, and well-established computation abilities have been introduced to the scientific society as tentative computation alternatives to differential and partial differential equations used to describe physical systems and processes. Among them, a model originally conceived by famous John von Neumann, namely Cellular Automata (CA), due to its inherent impressive abilities managed to provide scientists and practitioners with an efficient modeling framework for a variety of applications, very often of interdisciplinary nature. Indeed, although the CA field is considered to be a relatively old and established one, these simple but powerful systems and their most recent variations that simulate macroscopic processes from numerous elementary and local interactions continue to attract the interest of researchers after their original introduction. Using the words of Nobelist Richard Feynman, “CA are very effective in simulating physical systems and solving scientific problems, because they can capture the essential features of systems where global behaviour arises from the collective effect of simple components which interact locally.” In this context, in the last decades, the International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI) series of conferences has been an internationally renowned forum for all those interested in the theory and applications of CA, including CA tools and computational sciences. It is also concerned with applications and solutions of problems from the fields of arts, biology, chemistry, communication, cultural heritage, ecology, economy, geology, engineering, computer science, medicine, physics, sociology, and so on, allowing scholars coming from different studies and experience in CA to discuss and merge their competencies and results, to identify new issues, and to enlarge the research fields of CA. Taking the initiation from the 10th edition of the ACRI 2012 Conference that took place in Santorini Island, Greece, in September 2012, an open call was announced for the submission of papers either related with the CA papers of the ACRI 2012 Conference or unpublished high-quality works strongly related to the modeling aspects of CA in any field of physics, engineering, environment science, social science, and life science. As a result, we finally ended with four intriguing and mostly CA-based papers that constitute this Special Issue of Advances in Cellular Automata Modeling in ACM TOMACS. The first article, entitled “Morphological Coevolution for Fluid Dynamical-Related Risk Mitigation” by Filippone et al., presented a comprehensive study of CA modeling based on an evolutionary approach for devising protective measures to divert lava flows.

Guests Editors’ Editorial Note on Special Issue of Advances in Cellular Automata Modeling