Computer Science, Informatics, and Natural Computing—Personal Reflections

2008 ◽  
pp. 373-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Rozenberg
Author(s):  
Giancarlo Mauri ◽  
Gheorghe Păun ◽  
Agustín Riscos-Núñez

<p>The present volume contains a selection of papers resulting from the Seventh Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing (BWMC7), held in Sevilla, from February 2 to February 6, 2009. The meeting was organized by the Research Group on Natural Computing (RGNC) from Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of Sevilla University. The previous editions of this series of meetings were organized in Tarragona (2003), and Sevilla (2004 – 2008). After the first BWMC, a special issue of Natural Computing – volume 2, number 3, 2003, and a special issue of New Generation Computing – volume 22, number 4, 2004, were published; papers from the second BWMC have appeared in a special issue of Journal of Universal Computer Science – volume 10, number 5, 2004, as well as in a special issue of Soft Computing – volume 9, number 5, 2005; a selection of papers written during the third BWMC has appeared in a special issue of International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science – volume 17, number 1, 2006); after the fourth BWMC a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science was edited – volume 372, numbers 2-3, 2007; after the fifth edition, a special issue of International Journal of Unconventional Computing was edited – volume 5, number 5, 2009; finally, a selection of papers elaborated during the sixth BWMC has appeared in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae</p>


Author(s):  
Matthew N. O. Sadiku ◽  
Mahamadou Tembely ◽  
Sarhan M. Musa

Natural computing refers to the field that investigates both human-designed computing inspired by nature and computing taking place in nature. It is based on the premise that “nature computes.” Due of its interdisciplinary nature, natural computing covers a spectrum of research areas including biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.  This paper provides a brief introduction to natural computing.


Axioms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Cristian S. Calude ◽  
Gheorghe Păun

Solomon Marcus (1925–2016) was one of the founders of the Romanian theoretical computer science. His pioneering contributions to automata and formal language theories, mathematical linguistics and natural computing have been widely recognised internationally. In this paper we briefly present his publications in theoretical computer science and related areas, which consist in almost ninety papers. Finally we present a selection of ten Marcus books in these areas.


2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Paweł Polak

AbstractThis article presents the evolution of philosophical and methodological considerations concerning empiricism in computer/computing science. In this study, we trace the most important current events in the history of reflection on computing. The forerunners of Artificial Intelligence H.A. Simon and A. Newell in their paper Computer Science As Empirical Inquiry (1975) started these considerations. Later the concept of empirical computer science was developed by S.S. Shapiro, P. Wegner, A.H. Eden and P.J. Denning. They showed various empirical aspects of computing. This led to a view of the science of computing (or science of information processing) - the science of general scope. Some interesting contemporary ways towards a generalized perspective on computations were also shown (e.g. natural computing).


1984 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 551-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Asch
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1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 1007-1008
Author(s):  
Rodney L. Lowman

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