Overview
- representatives, and general public
- The book is an encyclopedia in unconventional computing -- the interdisciplinary science aimed to exploit principles of information processing in and functional properties of physical, chemical and living systems to develop efficient algorithms, design optimal architectures and manufacture working prototypes of future and emergent computing devices
- The book advances topics of theory of computation, nature-inspired algorithms, chemical and biological prototypes of unconventional computing devices, synthetic biology, non-standard mathematics, nanocomputing, novel hardware, future and emergent computing technologies, self-organization, mathematical machines, and automata
- The book is comprised of unique contributions prepared by world leading experts in computer science, hardware, physics, chemistry, biology, nano-technology, engineering
- The book is very well illustrated: many graphical examples appeal not only to scientists but engineers, industry
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation (ECC, volume 23)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The unconventional computing is a niche for interdisciplinary science, cross-bred of computer science, physics, mathematics, chemistry, electronic engineering, biology, material science and nanotechnology. The aims of this book are to uncover and exploit principles and mechanisms of information processing in and functional properties of physical, chemical and living systems to develop efficient algorithms, design optimal architectures and manufacture working prototypes of future and emergent computing devices.
This second volume presents experimental laboratory prototypes and applied computing implementations. Emergent molecular computing is presented by enzymatic logical gates and circuits, and DNA nano-devices. Reaction-diffusion chemical computing is exemplified by logical circuits in Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium and geometrical computation in precipitating chemical reactions. Logical circuits realised with solitons and impulses in polymer chains show advances in collision-based computing. Photo-chemical and memristive devices give us a glimpse on hot topics of a novel hardware. Practical computing is represented by algorithms of collective and immune-computing and nature-inspired optimisation. Living computing devices are implemented in real and simulated cells, regenerating organisms, plant roots and slime mould.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Unconventional Computing
Book Subtitle: Volume 2: Prototypes, Models and Algorithms
Editors: Andrew Adamatzky
Series Title: Emergence, Complexity and Computation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33921-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33920-7Published: 08 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81632-6Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33921-4Published: 26 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2194-7287
Series E-ISSN: 2194-7295
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 812
Number of Illustrations: 194 b/w illustrations, 234 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Complexity, Artificial Intelligence