Models of Massive Parallelism

Max Garzon

ISBN 10: 3642779077 / ISBN 13: 9783642779077

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Feb 2012, 2012

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 292 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Models of Massive Parallelism
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Feb 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642779077
• ISBN 13: 9783642779077
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

This textbook presents analytic methods and results for exploring and understanding cellular automata and discrete neural networks. The book includes exercises and bibliographies and may serve also as a reference manual.