Amorphous computing: examples, mathematics and theory

  • Authors:
  • W. Richard Stark

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA 33620-5700

  • Venue:
  • Natural Computing: an international journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The cellular automata model was described by John von Neumann and his friends in the 1950s as a representation of information processing in multicellular tissue. With crystalline arrays of cells and synchronous activity, it missed the mark (Stark and Hughes, BioSystems 55:107---117, 2000). Recently, amorphous computing, a valid model for morphogenesis in multicellular information processing, has begun to fill the void. Through simple examples and elementary mathematics, this paper begins a computation theory for this important new direction.