From Parallel to Emergent Computing

Modern computing relies on future and emergent technologies which have been conceived via interaction between computer science, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology. This highly interdisciplinary book presents advances in the fields of parallel, distributed and emergent information processing and computation. The book represents major breakthroughs in parallel quantum protocols, elastic cloud servers, structural properties of interconnection networks, internet of things, morphogenetic collective systems, swarm intelligence and cellular automata, unconventionality in parallel computation, algorithmic information dynamics, localized DNA computation, graph-based cryptography, slime mold inspired nano-electronics and cytoskeleton computers. FeaturesTruly interdisciplinary, spanning computer science, electronics, mathematics and biologyCovers widely popular topics of future and emergent computing technologies, cloud computing, parallel computing, DNA computation, security and network analysis, cryptography, and theoretical computer scienceProvides unique chapters written by top experts in theoretical and applied computer science, information processing and engineeringFrom Parallel to Emergent Computing provides a visionary statement on how computing will advance in the next 25 years and what new fields of science will be involved in computing engineering. This book is a valuable resource for computer scientists working today, and in years to come.

Andrew Adamatzky is Professor of Unconventional Computing and Director of theUnconventional Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Universityof the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. He does research in molecular computing,reaction-diffusion computing, collision-based computing, cellular automata,slime mould computing, massive parallel computation, applied mathematics, complexity,nature-inspired optimisation, collective intelligence and robotics, bionics,computational psychology, non-linear science, novel hardware, and future and emergentcomputation. He authored seven books, including Reaction-Diffusion Computers(Elsevier, 2005), Dynamics of Crowd-Minds (World Scientific, 2005), and PhysarumMachines (World Scientific, 2010), and edited 22 books in computing, including CollisionBased Computing (Springer, 2002), Game of Life Cellular Automata (Springer, 2010),and Memristor Networks (Springer, 2014); he also produced a series of influentialartworks published in the atlas Silence of Slime Mould (Luniver Press, 2014). He isfounding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cellular Automata (2005–) and the Journalof Unconventional Computing (2005–) and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Parallel,Emergent, Distributed Systems (2014–) and Parallel Processing Letters (2018–).Selim G. Akl (Ph.D., McGill University, 1978) is a Professor at Queen’s Universityin the Queen’s School of Computing, where he leads the Parallel and UnconventionalComputation Group. His research interests are primarily in the area of algorithmdesign and analysis, in particular for problems in parallel computing and unconventionalcomputing. Dr. Akl is the author of Parallel Sorting Algorithms (Academic Press,1985), The Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms (Prentice Hall, 1989), andParallel Computation: Models and Methods (Prentice Hall, 1997). He is co-author ofParallel Computational Geometry (Prentice Hall, 1993), Adaptive Cryptographic AccessControl (Springer, 2010), and Applications of Quantum Cryptography (Lambert, 2016).Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis is a Professor in Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. His current research emphasisis on complex electronic systems, future and emergent electronic devices, circuits,models and architectures (memristors, quantum cellular automata, etc.), novel computingdevices and circuits, cellular automata, unconventional computing, high-performancecomputing, cyber-physical and embedded systems, bioinspired computation andbioengineering, FPGAs, modelling, and simulation. He co-authored two books, namelyMemristor-Based Nanoelectronic Computing Circuits and Architectures (Springer,2016) and Artificial Intelligence and Applications (Krikos Publishing, 2010) and coeditedthree books.