Author : Tino Gramß
Publisher : Wiley-VCH
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Non-Standard Computation by : Tino Gramß
Download or read book Non-Standard Computation written by Tino Gramß and published by Wiley-VCH. This book was released on 1998-07-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's never enough computer power for challenging questions. Problems such as the design of turbines consisting of more than 100 parts or the simulation of systems of some 50 interacting particles are far beyond today's computer capacities. Or, how to find the shortest phone line connecting 100 given cities? The most promising answers to such questions come from unconventional technologies. The massive parallelism of molecular computers or the ingenious use of quantum systems by universal quantum computers provide solutions to the dilemma. And as for the phone line problem - genetic algorithms mimick the way nature found its way from the first cells to today's creatures. While relying on conventional computer hardware, they introduce an element of chance on the software level, thus circumventing the disadvantages of traditional deterministic algorithms. A textbook for those shaping the future of computing, this volume is also pure fun.