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Unconventional Computation

8th International Conference, UC 2009, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, September 7-11, 2009, Proceedings

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  • © 2009

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  1. Cristian S. Calude

    1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, St., Auckland, New Zealand

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  2. José Félix Costa

    1. Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais do Complexo Interdisciplinar, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

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  3. Nachum Dershowitz

    1. School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

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  4. Elisabete Freire

    1. Department of Mathematics, University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

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  5. Grzegorz Rozenberg

    1. Leiden Center of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5715)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, UC 2009, held in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, in September 2009. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 8 invited talks, 3 tutorials and 5 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are devoted to all aspects of unconventional computation ranging from theoretical and experimental aspects to various applications. Typical topics are: natural computing including quantum; cellular, molecular, neural and evolutionary computing; chaos and dynamical system-based computing; and various proposals for computational mechanisms that go beyond the Turing model.

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Table of contents (34 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Invited Talks and Tutorials

    1. Using Physical Experiments as Oracles

      • Edwin J. Beggs
      Pages 1-1

    2. A Tutorial on Analog Computation: Computing Functions over the Reals

      • Manuel Lameiras Campagnolo
      Pages 2-2

    3. Computational Mechanics: Natural Computation and Self-organization

      • James P. Crutchfield
      Pages 3-3

    4. Diophantine Equations and Computation

      • Martin Davis
      Pages 4-5

    5. Structure of Reversible Cellular Automata

      • Jarkko Kari
      Pages 6-6

    6. Brain Dynamics Promotes Function

      • Carlos Lourenço
      Pages 7-9

    7. Awakening the Analogue Computer: Rubel’s Extended Analog Computer Workshop

      • Jonathan W. Mills
      Pages 10-10

    8. Artifice, Interpretation and Nature: Key Categories in Radiology Work

      • James M. Nyce
      Pages 11-15

    9. Developmental Computing

      • Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
      Pages 16-23

    10. Evolvable Hardware: From Applications to Implications for the Theory of Computation

      • Lukáš Sekanina
      Pages 24-36

    11. Relativistic Computers and Transfinite Computation

      • Philip D. Welch
      Pages 37-41

  3. Regular Contributions

    1. Turing Completeness Using Three Mobile Membranes

      • Bogdan Aman, Gabriel Ciobanu
      Pages 42-55

    2. Resource-Competing Oscillator Network as a Model of Amoeba-Based Neurocomputer

      • Masashi Aono, Yoshito Hirata, Masahiko Hara, Kazuyuki Aihara
      Pages 56-69

    3. Networks of Evolutionary Picture Processors with Filtered Connections

      • Paolo Bottoni, Anna Labella, Florin Manea, Victor Mitrana, Jose M. Sempere
      Pages 70-84

    4. Mapping Computation with No Memory

      • Serge Burckel, Emeric Gioan, Emmanuel Thomé
      Pages 85-97

    5. Real Computable Manifolds and Homotopy Groups

      • Wesley Calvert, Russell Miller
      Pages 98-109

    6. Distributed Quantum Programming

      • Ellie D’Hondt, Yves Vandriessche
      Pages 110-124

    7. Foundations of Optical Encryption: Formal Modeling and Achieving Shannon Secrecy

      • Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Ron Menendez, Shahab Etemad, Janet Jackel
      Pages 125-142

    8. Random Number Selection in Self-assembly

      • David Doty, Jack H. Lutz, Matthew J. Patitz, Scott M. Summers, Damien Woods
      Pages 143-157
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, St., Auckland, New Zealand

    Cristian S. Calude

  • Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais do Complexo Interdisciplinar, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Félix Costa

  • School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

    Nachum Dershowitz

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

    Elisabete Freire

  • Leiden Center of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

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