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Advances in Unconventional Computing

Volume 2: Prototypes, Models and Algorithms

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Implementing Molecular Logic Gates, Circuits, and Cascades Using DNAzymes

    • Matthew R. Lakin, Milan N. Stojanovic, Darko Stefanovic
    Pages 1-28
  3. Enzyme-Based Reversible Logic Gates Operated in Flow Cells

    • Evgeny Katz, Brian E. Fratto
    Pages 29-59
  4. Sensing Parameters of a Time Dependent Inflow with an Enzymatic Reaction

    • Jerzy Gorecki, Joanna N. Gorecka, Bogdan Nowakowski, Hiroshi Ueno, Tatsuaki Tsuruyama, Kenichi Yoshikawa
    Pages 85-104
  5. Combinational Logic Circuit Based on BZ Reaction

    • Mingzhu Sun, Xin Zhao
    Pages 105-139
  6. Associative Memory in Reaction-Diffusion Chemistry

    • James Stovold, Simon O’Keefe
    Pages 141-166
  7. Calculating Voronoi Diagrams Using Chemical Reactions

    • Ben De Lacy Costello, Andrew Adamatzky
    Pages 167-198
  8. Light-Sensitive Belousov–Zhabotinsky Computing Through Simulated Evolution

    • Larry Bull, Rita Toth, Chris Stone, Ben De Lacy Costello, Andrew Adamatzky
    Pages 199-212
  9. Marangoni Flow Driven Maze Solving

    • Kohta Suzuno, Daishin Ueyama, Michal Branicki, Rita Tóth, Artur Braun, István Lagzi
    Pages 237-243
  10. Chemotaxis and Chemokinesis of Living and Non-living Objects

    • Jitka ÄŒejková, Silvia Holler, To Quyen Nguyenová, Christian Kerrigan, FrantiÅ¡ek Å tÄ›pánek, Martin M. Hanczyc
    Pages 245-260
  11. Computing with Classical Soliton Collisions

    • Mariusz H. Jakubowski, Ken Steiglitz, Richard Squier
    Pages 261-295
  12. Soliton-Guided Quantum Information Processing

    • Ken Steiglitz
    Pages 297-307
  13. Models of Computing on Actin Filaments

    • Stefano Siccardi, Andrew Adamatzky
    Pages 309-346
  14. Modeling DNA Nanodevices Using Graph Rewrite Systems

    • Reem Mokhtar, Sudhanshu Garg, Harish Chandran, Hieu Bui, Tianqi Song, John Reif
    Pages 347-395
  15. Computational Matter: Evolving Computational Functions in Nanoscale Materials

    • Hajo Broersma, Julian F. Miller, Stefano Nichele
    Pages 397-428
  16. Unconventional Computing Realized with Hybrid Materials Exhibiting the PhotoElectrochemical Photocurrent Switching (PEPS) Effect

    • Kacper Pilarczyk, PrzemysÅ‚aw Kwolek, Agnieszka Podborska, Sylwia GawÄ™da, Marek Oszajca, Konrad SzaciÅ‚owski
    Pages 429-467
  17. Organic Memristor Based Elements for Bio-inspired Computing

    • Silvia Battistoni, Alice Dimonte, Victor Erokhin
    Pages 469-496

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.

The book is the encyclopedia, the  first ever complete authoritative account, of the theoretical and experimental findings in the unconventional computing written by the world leaders in the field. All chapters are self-contains, no specialist background is required to appreciate ideas, findings, constructs and designs presented.  This treatise in unconventional computing appeals to readers from all walks of life, from high-school pupils to university professors, from mathematicians, computers scientists and engineers to chemists and biologists.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Unconventional ComputingCentre, University of the Westof England Unconventional ComputingCentre, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Andrew Adamatzky

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

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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