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Computing with Cells and Atoms

An Introduction to Quantum, DNA and Membrane Computing

By Cris Calude, Gheorghe Paun

Published October 26th 2000 by CRC Press – 320 pages

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Description

At the turning of the millennium, a switch in computing technology is forecasted and looked for. Two main directions of research, both based on quite unconventional ideas are most promising - quantum computing and molecular computing. In the last few years, both of these methods have been intensely investigated. The present book is the first "friendly" presentation of basic ideas in these exciting areas. The style is rigorous, but without entering into excessive technicalities. Equal attention is paid to the main practical results reported so far and the main theoretical developments. The book is written for the educated layman and is self-contained, including all the necessary facts from mathematics, computer science, biology and quantum mechanics.

Contents

1. Prerequisites 1.1. Preliminary Notions and Notations 1.2. Operations on Strings and Languages 1.3. A General Computing Framework 1.4. Chomsky Grammars 1.5. Lindenmayer Systems 1.6. Automata and Transducers 1.7. Characterizations of Computably Enumerable Languages 1.8. Universal Turing Machines and Type-0 Grammars 1.9. Complexity 1.10. Bibliographic Notes 2. DNA Computing 2.1 The Structure of DNA 2.2. Complementarity Induces Computational Completeness 2.3. Operations on DNA Molecules 2.4. Adleman's Experiment 2.5. Other DNA Solutions to NP Complete Problems 2.6. A Two-dimensional Generalization 2.7. Computing by Carving 2.8. Sticker Systems 2.9 Extended H-Systems 2.10 Controlled H-Systems 2.11 Distributed H-Systems 2.12 Bibliographic Notes 3. Membrane Computing 3.1 P Systems with Labeled Membranes 3.2. Examples 3.3. The Power of P Systems 3.4. Decidability Results 3.5. Rewriting P Systms 3.6. P Systems with Polarized Membranes 3.7. Normal Forms 3.8. P Systems on Asymmetric Graphs 3.9. P Systems with Active Membranes 3.10. Splicing P Systems 3.11 Variants, Problems, Conjectures 3.12 Bibliographic Notes 4. Quantum Computing 4.1. Church-Turing Thesis 4.2 Computation is Physical 4.3. Reversible Computation 4.4. The Copy Computer 4.5. Maxwell's Demon 4.6. Quantum World 4.7 Bits and Quibits 4.8. Quantum Calculus 4.9. Quibit Evolution 4.10 No Cloning Theorem 4.11. Measurements 4.12 Zeno Machines 4.13 Inexhaustible Uncertainty 4.14. Randomness 4.15. The EPR Conundrum and Bell's Theorem 4.16. Quantum Logic 4.17. Have Quantum Propositions Classical Meaning? 4.18 Quantum Computers 4.19 Quantum Algorithms 4.20 Quantum Complexity 4.21 Quantum Cryptography 4.22 Information and Teleportation 4.23 Computing the Uncomputable 4.24 Bibliographic Notes 5. Final Remarks 6. Bibliography 7. Index

Name: Computing with Cells and Atoms: An Introduction to Quantum, DNA and Membrane Computing (Paperback) – CRC Press 
Description: By Cris Calude, Gheorghe Paun. At the turning of the millennium, a switch in computing technology is forecasted and looked for. Two main directions of research, both based on quite unconventional ideas are most promising - quantum computing and molecular computing. In the last few...
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