computability theory and computational complexity theory, a model of computation is a model which describes how an output of a mathematical function is...
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A computational model uses computer programs to simulate and study complex systems using an algorithmic or mechanistic approach and is widely used in...
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and mathematics, the theory of computation is the branch that deals with what problems can be solved on a model of computation, using an algorithm, how efficiently...
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Turing machine (redirect from Universal computation)
mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite the model's simplicity...
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Nondeterministic Turing machine (redirect from Nondeterministic model of computation)
science, a nondeterministic Turing machine (NTM) is a theoretical model of computation whose governing rules specify more than one possible action when...
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The actor model in computer science is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats an actor as the basic building block of concurrent computation...
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computational complexity or simply complexity of an algorithm is the amount of resources required to run it. Particular focus is given to computation...
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introducing mathematical models of computation to study these problems and quantifying their computational complexity, i.e., the amount of resources needed to...
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Shannon's idealized analog computer computations are immediately done; i.e. computation is done in real time. Shannon's model can be adapted to cope with this...
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Computational biology refers to the use of techniques in computer science, data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand...
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A computation is any type of arithmetic or non-arithmetic calculation that is well-defined. Common examples of computation are mathematical equation solving...
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Computability (redirect from Formal models of computation)
can be solved in each model of computation. A model of computation is a formal description of a particular type of computational process. The description...
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Real RAM (redirect from Arithmetic model of computation)
computational geometry, a real RAM (random-access machine) is a mathematical model of a computer that can compute with exact real numbers instead of the...
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implementation of the algorithm, called a model of computation. A model of computation may be defined in terms of an abstract computer, e.g. Turing machine...
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system. Computational neuroscience employs computational simulations to validate and solve mathematical models, and so can be seen as a sub-field of theoretical...
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Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate...
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Strongly-polynomial time (section Computational models)
upper-bounded by some polynomial function of the input size. The definition naturally depends on the computational model, which determines how the running time...
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Models of neural computation are attempts to elucidate, in an abstract and mathematical fashion, the core principles that underlie information processing...
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Turing completeness (redirect from Turing equivalence (theory of computation))
In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a model of computation, a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or...
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Deterministic system (redirect from Deterministic model)
deterministic model of computation, for example a deterministic Turing machine, is a model of computation such that the successive states of the machine...
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Finite-state machine (redirect from Optimization of finite state machines)
machine, is a mathematical model of computation. It is an abstract machine that can be in exactly one of a finite number of states at any given time. The...
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Interaction nets (category Models of computation)
are a graphical model of computation devised by French mathematician Yves Lafont in 1990 as a generalisation of the proof structures of linear logic. An...
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cryptography the standard model is the model of computation in which the adversary is only limited by the amount of time and computational power available. Other...
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An agent-based model (ABM) is a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous agents (both individual or collective entities...
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Probabilistic Turing machine (redirect from Probabilistic computation)
added tape full of random bits called the "random tape". A quantum computer (or quantum Turing machine) is another model of computation that is inherently...
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Quantum computing (redirect from Quantum computation)
physicists applied quantum mechanical models to computational problems and swapped digital bits for qubits, the fields of quantum mechanics and computer science...
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Computer simulation (redirect from Computational modeling)
have become a useful tool for the mathematical modeling of many natural systems in physics (computational physics), astrophysics, climatology, chemistry...
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rights, a model of computation, a model of distributed computing, or no particular theoretical grounding at all. A computer security model is implemented...
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operation of the model can be derived/deduced from these computational experiments. Examples of common computational models are weather forecasting models, earth...
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In quantum information, the one clean qubit model of computation is performed an n {\displaystyle n} qubit system with one pure state and n − 1 {\displaystyle...
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