Selected literature from the revival period 1983-86 may obtained from Wolfram's reprint volume Theory and Application of Cellular Automata, World Scientific, Singapore, 1986, ISBN 9971-50-124-4 pbk. Here is an extract:

• Basic Theory and phenomenology
  • S. Wolfram, Statistical mechanics of cellular automata,
    Rev. Mod Phys. 55, 601-644(1983)
  • O. Martin, A. Odlyzko and S. Wolfram, Algebraic properties of cellular automata,
    Commun. Math. Phys. 93, 219-258(1984).
  • S. Wolfram, Universality and complexity in cellular automata,
    Physica D, 10, 1-35(1984).
  • N. Packard and S. Wolfram, Two dimensional cellular automata,
    J. Stat. Phys. 38, 901-946(1985).
  • S. Wolfram, Twenty problems in the theory of cellular automata,
    Physica Scripta, T9, 170-183(1985).
• Computation theoretical approaches
  • S. Wolfram, Computation theory of cellular automata,
    Commun. Math. Phys. 96, 15-57(1984).
  • N. Margolus, Physics-like models of computation,
    Physica D, 10, 81-95(1984).
  • S. Wolfram, Random sequences generation by cellular automata,
    Adv. Applied Math. 7, 123-169(1986).
  • S. Wolfram, Undecidability and intractability in theoretical physics,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 735-738(1985).
  • S. Wolfram, Origins of randomness in physical physics,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 449-452(1985).
• Some applications
  • Y. Ono and M. Kohmoto, Discrete model of chemical turbulence,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2927-2931(1985).
  • J. Park, K. Steiglitz and W. Thurston, Soliton-like behavior in automata,
    Physica D, 19, 423-432(1986).
  • J. Pomeau, Invariant in cellular automata,
    J. Phys. A 17, L415-L418(1984).
• Probabilistic cellular automata
  • W. Kinzel, Phase transitions in cellular automata,
    Z. Phys. B 58, 229-244(1985).
  • P. Grassberger, F. Krause and T. von der Twer, A new type of kinetic critical phenomena,
    J. Phys. A 17, L105-L109(1984).
  • K. Kaneko and Y. Akutsu, Phase transitions in 2D stochastic cellular automata,
    J. Phys. A 19, L69-L75(1986).
  • E. Domany and W. Kinzel, Equivalence of cellular automata to Ising models and directed percolation,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 311-314(1984).
  • G. Grinstein, C. Jayaprakash and Y. He, Statistical mechanics of probabilistic cellular automata,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2527-2530(1985).
  • C. Bennet and G. Grinstein, Role of irreversibility in stabilizing complex and nonergodic behavior in locally interacting discrete systems,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 657-660(1985).