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Cristian S. Calude, John L. Casti, Michael J. Dinneen, editors. Unconventional Models of Computation, UMC'98: Auckland, New Zealand. Springer. 1998

 

Contents

Martyn Amos, Steve Wilson, David A. Hodgson, Gerald Owenson, Alan Gibbons.
Practical Implementation of DNA Computations
Artur Ekert, Chiara Macchiavello.
An Overview of Quantum Computing
H. Jeff Kimble.
Implementing Quantum Logic and Communication via Cavity QED
Seth Lloyd.
Unconventional Quantum Computing Devices
Cristopher Moore.
Finite-Dimensional Analog Computers: Flows, Maps, and Recurrent Neural Networks
John H. Reif.
Paradigms for Biomolecular Computation
Arto Salomaa.
Turing, Watson-Crick and Lindenmayer. Aspects of DNA Complementarity
Gordon Alford.
Explicitly Constructing Universal Extended H Systems
Mark H. Butler, Raymond C. Paton, Paul H. Leng.
Unconventional Approaches for Biologically Inspired Computing
Elena Calude, Marjo Lipponen.
Deterministic Incomplete Automata: Simulation, Universality and Complementarity
B. Jack Copeland.
Even Turing Machines Can Compute Uncomputable Functions
Michael Frank, Thomas F. Knight Jr, Norman H. Margolus.
Reversibility in Optimally Scalable Computer Architectures
Michael Frank, Carlin Vieri, M. Josephine Ammer, Nicole Love, Norman H. Margolus, Thomas F. Knight Jr.
A Scalable Reversible Computer in Silicon
Rudolf Freund, Valeria Mihalache.
Molecular Computations on Circular and Linear Strings
Yuzhen Ge, Layne T. Watson, Emmanuel G. Collins Jr..
Genetic Algorithms for Optimization on a Quantum Computer
Karl Gustafson.
Ergodic Learning Algorithms
Peter Herding.
Embedding Cellular Automata into Reversible Ones
Thomas F. Knight Jr, Gerald Jay Sussman.
Cellular Gate Technology
Alexandru Mateescu.
Splicing on Routes: a Framework of DNA Computation
Hideaki Matsueda.
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Quantum Entangled Pure States in Quantum Computing Solid Block Circuits
Lakshmi Narayanaswamy, Peter M. Kogge.
Combinators and Processing-In-Memory: An Unconventional Basis for Avoiding the Memory Wall
Mitsunori Ogihara, Animesh Ray.
The Minimum DNA Computation Model and Its Computational Power
Gheorghe Paun.
Distributed Architectures in DNA Computing Based on Splicing: Limiting the Size of Components
Boris S. Pavlov, Gary Roach, Adil Yafyasov.
Resonance Scattering and Design of Quantum Gates
Yuzuru Sato, Makoto Taiji, Takashi Ikegami.
Self-Similar Sets as Satisfiable Boolean Expressions
Karl Svozil.
The Church-Turing Thesis as a Guiding Principle for Physics
Carlin Vieri, M. Josephine Ammer, Amory Wakefield, Lars "Johnny" Svensson, William Athas, Thomas F. Knight Jr.
Designing Reversible Memory
Herbert Wiklicky.
Quantitative Computation by Hilbert Machines

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Ioannis Antoniou, Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, editors. Unconventional Models of Computation, UMC'2K: Solvay Institutes. Springer. 2001

 

Contents

Luigi Accardi, Ruben Sabbadini.
On the Ohya-Masuda Quantum SAT Algorithm
Ioannis Antoniou, Vikto V. Ivanon.
Computational Methods and Tools for Modeling and Analysis of Complex Processes
Symeon Bozapalidis.
Quantum Recognizable Tree Functions
Karl Gustafson.
An Unconventional Computational Linear Algebra: Operator Trigonometry
Thomas Head.
Splicing, Aqueous Computing, and Beyond
Takeyuki Hida.
Some Methods of Computation in White Noise Calculus
Gheorghe Paun.
Computing with Membranes: Attacking NP-Complete Problems
Grzegorz Rozenberg.
DNA Processing in Ciliates - the Wonders of DNA Computing in vivo
Hava T. Siegelmann, Asa Ben-Hur.
Macrospical Molecular Computation with Gene Networks
Erik Winfree.
In Vitro Transcriptional Circuits
Hideaki Abe, Shao Chin Sung.
Parallelizing with Limited Number of Ancillae
Manuel Lameiras Campagnolo, Cristopher Moore.
Upper and Lower Bounds on Continuous-Time Computation
Carlos Martin-Vide, Victor Mitrana.
P Systems with Valuations
Anna B. Mikhaylova, Boris S. Pavlov.
Quantum Domain as a Triadic Relay
Andrei Paun.
On P Systems with Active Membranes
Ferdinand Peper.
Spatial Computing on Self-Timed Cellular Automata
Asaki Saito, Kunihiko Kaneko.
Inaccessibility in Decision Procedures
Yuzuru Sato, Makoto Taiji, Takashi Ikegami.
On the Power of Nonlinear Mappings in Switching Map Systems
Karl Svozil.
Quantum Information: The New Frontier
Christino Tamon, Tomoyuki Yamakami.
Quantum Computation Relative to Oracles
Claudio Zandron, Claudio Ferretti, Giancarlo Mauri.
Solving NP Complete Problems Using P Systems with Active Membranes

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Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, Ferdinand Peper, editors. Unconventional Models of Computation, UMC 2002: Kobe, Japan. Springer. 2002

 

Contents

Manuel Lameiras Campagnolo.
The Complexity of Real Recursive Functions
B. Jack Copeland.
Hypercomputation in the Chinese Room
Andre DeHon.
Very Large Scale Spatial Computing
Mitsunori Ogihara, Animesh Ray.
The Minimum-Model DNA Computation on a Sequence of Probe Arrays
Masanori Ohya.
An Information Theoretic Approach to the Study of Genome Sequences: An Application to the Evolution of HIV
Masanao Ozawa.
Halting of Quantum Turing Machines
Pawel Siwak.
Filtrons of Automata
Tommaso Toffoli.
A Man and His Computer: An Issue of Adaptive Fitness and Personal Satisfaction
Masami Amano, Kazuo Iwama, Rudy Raymond HP.
Exploiting the Difference in Probability Calculation between Quantum and Probabilistic Computations
Joshua J. Arulanandham.
Implementing Bead-Sort with P Systems
C. Graciani Diaz, F.J. Martin Mateos, Mario J. Perez Jimenez.
Specification of Adleman's Restricted Model Using an Automated Reasoning System: Verification of Lipton's Experiment
Jean-Louis Giavitto, Olivier Michel.
Data Structure as Topological Spaces
Frederic Gruau, Philippe Malbos.
The Blob: A Basic Topological Concept for "Hardware-Free" Distributed Computation
Katsunobu Imai, Kenji Fujita, Chuzo Iwamoto, Kenichi Morita.
Embedding a Logically Universal Model and a Self-Reproducing Model into Number-Conserving Cellular Automata
Alvaro Romero Jimenez, Mario J. Perez Jimenez.
Generation of Diophantine Sets by Computing P Systems with External Output
Atsushi Kameda, Nobuo Matsuura, Masahito Yamamoto, Azuma Ohuchi.
An Analysis of Computational Efficiency of DNA Computing
Takeshi Kawakami.
Communication and Computation by Quantum Games
Shankara Narayanan Krishna, Raghavan Rama.
On The Power of Tissue P Systems Working in the Minimal Mode
Jia Lee, Ferdinand Peper, Susumu Adachi, Kenichi Morita, Shinro Mashiko.
Reversible Computation in Asynchronous Cellular Automata
Jumpei Niwa, Keiji Matsumoto, Hiroshi Imai.
General-Purpose Parallel Simulator for Quantum Computing
Toshiyuki Shimono.
Towards Additivity of Entanglement of Formation
Petr Sosik, Jiri Matysek.
Membrane Computing: When Communication Is Enough
Hiroshi Umeo, Masaya Hisaoka, Koshi Michisaka, Koji Nishioka, Masashi Maeda.
Some New Generalized Synchronization Algorithms and Their Implementations for Large Scale Cellular Automata
Jiri Wiedermann, Jan van Leeuwen.
Relativistic Computers and Non-uniform Complexity Theory
Tomoyuki Yamakami.
Quantum Optimization Problems
(extended abstract)
Tomohiro Yamasaki, Hirotada Kobayashi, Hiroshi Imai.
An Analysis of Absorbing Times of Quantum Walks

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Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, Gheorghe Paun, Mario J. Perez-Jimenez, Grzegorz Rozenberg, editors. Unconventional Computation, UC 2005: Seville, Spain. Springer. 2005

 

Contents

Thomas Back, Ron Breukelaar.
Using Genetic Algorithms to Evolve Behavior in Cellular Automata
Lov K. Grover.
Quantum Searching Amidst Uncertainty
Eric H. Davidson, Sorin Istrail.
Logic Functions of the Genomic Cis-regulatory Code (abstract)
Ruojie Sha, Xiaoping Zhang, Shiping Liao, Pamela E. Constantinou, Baoquan Ding, Tong Wang, Alejandra V. Garibotti, Hong Zhong, Lisa B. Israel, Xing Wang, Gang Wu, Banani Chakraborty, Junghuei Chen, Yuwen Zhang, Hao Yam, Zhiyong Shen, Wanqiu Shen, Phiset Sa-Ardyen, Jens Kopatsch, Jiwen Zheng, Philip S. Lukeman, William B. Sherman, Chengde Mao, Natasha Jonoska, Nadrian C. Seeman.
Structural DNA Nanotechnology: Molecular Construction and Computation
Carme Torras.
Natural Inspiration for Artificial Adaptivity: Some Neurocomputing Experiences in Robotics
Francesco Bernardini, Marian Gheorghe, Natalio Krasnogor, Jean-Louis Giavitto.
On Self-assembly in Population P Systems
Cosmin Bonchis, Gabriel Ciobanu, Cornel Izbasa, Dana Petcu.
A Web-Based P Systems Simulator and Its Parallelization
Adan Cabello.
Communication Complexity as a Principle of Quantum Mechanics
Zhe Dang, Oscar H. Marra, Cheng Li, Gaoyan Xie.
On Model-Checking of P Systems
Carmen Graciani-Diaz, Agustin Riscos-Nunez.
Looking for Simple Common Schemes to Design Recognizer P Systems with Active Membranes That Solve Numerical Decision Problems
Miguel A. Gutierrez-Naranjo, Mario J. Perez-Jimenez, Agustin Riscos-Nunez, Francisco J. Romero-Campero.
P Systems with Active Membranes, Without Polarizations and Without Dissolution: A Characterization of P
Masami Hagiya.
Discrete State Transition Systems on Continuous Space-Time: A Theoretical Model for Amorphous Computing
Shuichi Inokuchi, Kazumasa Honda, Hyen Yeal Lee, Tatsuro Sato, Yoshihiro Mizoguchi, Yasuo Kawahara.
On Reversible Cellular Automata with Finite Cell Array
Natasha Jonoska, Gregory L. McColm.
A Computational Model for Self-assembling Flexible Tiles
Kojiro Kobayashi, Darin Goldstein.
On Formulations of Firing Squad Synchronization Problems
Oleksiy Kurganskyy, Igor Potapov.
Computation in One-Dimensional Piecewise Maps and Planar Pseudo-Billiard Systems
Marius Nagy, Selim G. Akl.
On the Importance of Parallelism for Quantum Computation and the Concept of a Universal Computer
Predrag T. Tosic, Gul A. Agha.
On Computational Complexity of Counting Fixed Points in Symmetric Boolean Graph Automata
Tereza Tusarova.
A New Sibling of BQP
Hiroshi Umeo, Masaya Hisaoka, Shunsuke Akiguchi.
A Twelve-State Optimum-Time Synchronization Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Rectangular Cellular Arrays
Jiri Wiedermann.
Computing by Self-reproduction: Autopoietic Automata
Damien Woods, J. Paul Gibson.
Lower Bounds on the Computational Power of an Optical Model of Computation
Paolo Zuliani.
On Counterfactual Computation

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Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, Gheorghe Paun, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Susan Stepney, editors. Unconventional Computation, UC 2006: York, UK. Springer. 2006

 

Contents

Aurelie Goulon, Arthur Duprat, Gerard Dreyfus.
Graph Machines and their applications to computer-aided drug design: a new approach to learning from structured data
Michael C. Mozer.
Rational models of cognitive control
Erik Winfree.
Fault-tolerance in biochemical systems (abstract)
Damien Woods.
Optical computing and computational complexity
Russ Abbott.
If a tree casts a shadow is it telling the time?
M. Sakthi Balan, Helmut Jurgensen.
Peptide computing -- universality and theoretical model
Monica Cardona, M. Angels Colomer, Mario J. Perez-Jimenez, Alba Zaragoza.
Handling Markov Chains with Membrane Computing
Uffe Flarup, Klaus Meer.
Approximation classes for real number optimization problems
Peter Hines.
Physical systems as constructive logics
Oscar H. Ibarra, Sara Woodworth, Fang Yu, Andrei Paun.
On spiking neural P Systems and partially blind counter machines
Yasuhiro Igarashi, Jerzy Gorecki, Joanna Natalia Gorecka.
Chemical information processing devices constructed using a nonlinear medium with controlled excitability
Natasha Jonoska, Gregory L. McColm.
Flexible versus rigid tile assembly
Shankara Narayanan Krishna.
On pure catalytic P Systems
William B. Langdon.
Mapping non-conventional extensions of Genetic Programming
Akihiro Mikoda, Shuichi Inokuchi, Yoshihiro Mizoguchi, Mitsuhiko Fujio.
The number of ordits of periodic box-ball systems
Jerzy Mycka, Francisco Coelho, Jose Felix Costa.
The Euclid Abstract Machine: trisection of the angle and the Halting Problem
Shigeru Ninagawa.
1/f noise in elementary cellular automaton rule 110
Mihai Oltean.
A light-based device for solving the Hamiltonian path problem
Mikhail Prokopenko, Daniel Polani, Peter Wang.
Optimizing potential information transfer with self-referential memory
H. Ramesh, Shankara Narayanan Krishna, Raghavan Rama.
On the power of bio-Turing machines
Dylan A. Shell, Maja J. Mataric.
Ergodic dynamics for large-scale distributed robot systems