Authors
Takashi [email protected]
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and
Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan
Available Online 30 June 2018.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2018.5.1.2
Keywords
Natural computing; molecular computing; self-assembly; chemical reaction
computing
Abstract
Natural computing (NC) is an emerging area of research that investigates
computing techniques and models inspired by nature on one hand, and it
also investigates phenomena taking place in nature in terms of computational
methodologies on the other hand. Thus, research in NC congenitally has
interdisciplinary flavor, which bridges between computer science and various
disciplines of natural science. Because of its interdisciplinary nature,
NC connects and covers a broad spectrum of fundamental research fields
including biology, chemistry, physics, medical science, and so forth. In
this article, we give a concise introduction to the new computing paradigm
of NC. Specifically, we give an overview of selected topics of the fields
from theory to experiments, where the stress is primarily put on theoretical
achievements in computing paradigms called molecular computing and chemical
reaction computing.
Copyright
Copyright © 2018, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc/4.0/).