Unconventional Models of Computation Third International Conference, UMC 2002, Kobe, Japan, October 15-19, 2002, Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Calude, Cristian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dinneen, Michael J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Peper, F. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2509
• Subjects: Computers.; Algorithms.; Bioinformatics.; Theory of Computation.; Computation by Abstract Devices.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.

 Invited Papers -- The Complexity of Real Recursive Functions -- Hypercomputation in the Chinese Room -- Very Large Scale Spatial Computing -- The Minimum-Model DNA Computation on a Sequence of Probe Arrays -- An Information Theoretic Approach to the Study of Genome Sequences: An Application to the Evolution of HIV -- Halting of Quantum Turing Machines -- Filtrons of Automata -- A Man and His Computer: An Issue of Adaptive Fitness and Personal Satisfaction -- Contributed Papers -- Exploiting the Difference in Probability Calculation between Quantum and Probabilistic Computations -- Implementing Bead-Sort with P Systems -- Specification of Adleman's Restricted Model Using an Automated Reasoning System: Verification of Lipton's Experiment -- Data Structure as Topological Spaces -- The Blob: A Basic Topological Concept for "Hardware-Free" Distributed Computation -- Embedding a Logically Universal Model and a Self-Reproducing Model into Number-Conserving Cellular Automata -- Generation of Diophantine Sets by Computing P Systems with External Output -- An Analysis of Computational Efficiency of DNA Computing -- Communication and Computation by Quantum Games -- On the Power of Tissue P Systems Working in the Minimal Mode -- Reversible Computation in Asynchronous Cellular Automata -- General-Purpose Parallel Simulator for Quantum Computing -- Towards Additivity of Entanglement of Formation -- Membrane Computing: When Communication Is Enough -- Some New Generalized Synchronization Algorithms and Their Implementations for Large Scale Cellular Automata -- Relativistic Computers and Non-uniform Complexity Theory -- Quantum Optimization Problems -- An Analysis of Absorbing Times of Quantum Walks.