• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • interactive computation is a mathematical model for computation that involves input/output communication with the external world during computation. Among...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships...
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  • external memory model. External memory algorithms are analyzed in an idealized model of computation called the external memory model (or I/O model, or disk access...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Unconventional computing (category Classes of computers)
    on Unconventional Models of Computation in 1998. The general theory of computation allows for a variety of methods of computation. Computing technology...
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  • output of a program, or giving an explanation of how the program will be executed on a certain platform, thereby creating a model of computation. In 1967...
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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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    general, a complexity class is defined in terms of a type of computational problem, a model of computation, and a bounded resource like time or memory. In...
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  • Computational science, also known as scientific computing, technical computing or scientific computation (SC), is a division of science, and more specifically...
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    science is a subfield of computer science and mathematics that focuses on the abstract and mathematical foundations of computation. It is difficult to circumscribe...
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    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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