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Emergent Computation

A Festschrift for Selim G. Akl

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  • Advances widely popular topics of universal computation, automata, theoretical computer science, future and emergent computing technologies, cloud computing, parallel computing, security and network analysis
  • Comprises unique chapters written by world top experts
  • Comes lavishly illustrated with visually attractive examples of mathematical machines, which will appeal not only to scientists but also to artists and general public
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation (ECC, volume 24)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

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About this book

This book is dedicated to Professor Selim G. Akl to honour his groundbreaking research achievements in computer science over four decades. The book is an intellectually stimulating excursion into emergent computing paradigms, architectures and implementations. World top experts in computer science, engineering and mathematics overview exciting and intriguing topics of musical rhythms generation algorithms, analyse the computational power of random walks, dispelling a myth of computational universality, computability and complexity at the microscopic level of synchronous computation, descriptional complexity of error detection, quantum cryptography, context-free parallel communicating grammar systems, fault tolerance of hypercubes, finite automata theory of bulk-synchronous parallel computing, dealing with silent data corruptions in high-performance computing, parallel sorting on graphics processing units, mining for functional dependencies in relational databases, cellular automataoptimisation of wireless sensors networks, connectivity preserving network transformers, constrained resource networks, vague computing, parallel evolutionary optimisation, emergent behaviour in multi-agent systems, vehicular clouds, epigenetic drug discovery, dimensionality reduction for intrusion detection systems, physical maze solvers, computer chess, parallel algorithms to string alignment, detection of community structure. The book is a unique combination of vibrant essays which inspires scientists and engineers to exploit natural phenomena in designs of computing architectures of the future.

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“The body of the book is a set of 26 papers that also demonstrate a diversity of interests among Akl … his students, his collaborators, his friends, and other researchers who contributed. … The breadth of ideas makes this volume interesting reading for those who want an understanding of some of the diverse topics it covers, while the specific contributions will be of interest to specialists in the relevant areas.” (Computing Reviews, August, 2017) 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Unconventional Computing Centre, University of the West of England Unconventional Computing Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Andrew Adamatzky

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Emergent Computation

  • Book Subtitle: A Festschrift for Selim G. Akl

  • Editors: Andrew Adamatzky

  • Series Title: Emergence, Complexity and Computation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46376-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46375-9Published: 11 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83505-1Published: 29 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46376-6Published: 04 November 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2194-7287

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-7295

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 643

  • Number of Illustrations: 77 b/w illustrations, 106 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Complexity

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