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Models of Massive Parallelism: Analysis of Cellular Automata and Neural Networks

By Max Garzon

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1995
ISBN
978-3-642-77907-7, 978-3-642-77905-3
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-77905-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8136670 bytes)
Series
Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
Pages
272\283
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Computation by Abstract Devices;Artificial IntelliDynamical Systems and Complexity

Description

Locality is a fundamental restriction in nature. On the other hand, adaptive complex systems, life in particular, exhibit a sense of permanence and time­ lessness amidst relentless constant changes in surrounding environments that make the global properties of the physical world the most important problems in understanding their nature and structure. Thus, much of the differential and integral Calculus deals with the problem of passing from local information (as expressed, for example, by a differential equation, or the contour of a region) to global features of a system's behavior (an equation of growth, or an area). Fundamental laws in the exact sciences seek to express the observable global behavior of physical objects through equations about local interaction of their components, on the assumption that the continuum is the most accurate model of physical reality. Paradoxically, much of modern physics calls for a fundamen­ tal discrete component in our understanding of the physical world. Useful computational models must be eventually constructed in hardware, and as such can only be based on local interaction of simple processing elements.

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