Author: Neal G. Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192570285
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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In The Physical Signature of Computation, Neal Anderson and Gualtiero Piccinini articulate and defend the robust mapping account--the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive account of computational implementation to date. Drawing in part from recent results in physical information theory, they argue that mapping accounts of implementation can be made adequate by incorporating appropriate physical constraints. According to the robust mapping account, the key constraint on mappings from physical to computational states--the key for establishing that a computation is physically implemented--is physical-computational equivalence: evolving physical states bear neither more nor less information about the evolving computation than do the computational states they map onto. When this highly nontrivial constraint is satisfied, among others that are spelled out as part of the account, a physical system can be said to implement a computation in a robust sense, which means that the system bears the physical signature of the computation. Anderson and Piccinini apply their robust mapping account to important questions in physical foundations of computation and cognitive science, including the alleged indeterminacy of computation, pancomputationalism, and the computational theory of mind. They show that physical computation is determinate, nontrivial versions of pancomputationalism fail, and cognition involves computation only insofar as neurocognitive systems bear the physical signature of specific computations. They also argue that both consciousness and physics outstrip computation.
Author: Neal G Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198833644
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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Anderson and Piccinini offer the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive account of computational implementation to date. Their robust mapping account holds that the key for establishing that a computation is physically implemented is that the physical states bear neither more nor less information than the computational states they map onto.
Author: Gualtiero Piccinini
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199658854
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Computation permeates our world, but a satisfactory philosophical theory of what it is has been lacking. Gualtiero Piccinini presents a mechanistic account of what makes a physical system a computing system. He argues that computation does not entail representation or information-processing, although information-processing entails computation.
Author: Matteo Colombo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009192833
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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The Computational Theory of Mind says that the mind is a computing system. It has a long history going back to the idea that thought is a kind of computation. Its modern incarnation relies on analogies with contemporary computing technology and the use of computational models. It comes in many versions, some more plausible than others. This Element supports the theory primarily by its contribution to solving the mind-body problem, its ability to explain mental phenomena, and the success of computational modelling and artificial intelligence. To be turned into an adequate theory, it needs to be made compatible with the tractability of cognition, the situatedness and dynamical aspects of the mind, the way the brain works, intentionality, and consciousness.
Author: Michael E. Cuffaro
Publisher:
ISBN: 1107171199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Offers an accessible yet cutting-edge tour of the many conceptual interconnections between physics and computer science.
Author: Frank Dehne
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540540298
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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This volume contains papers presented at the Third International Conference on Computing and Information, ICCI '91, held at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, May 27-29, 1991. The conference was organized by the School of Computer Science at Carleton University, and was sponsored by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Carleton University. ICCI '91 was an international forum for the presentation of original results in research, development, and applications in computing and information processing. The conference was aimed at both practitioners and theoreticians, and was organized into five streams: - Algorithms and complexity, - Databases and information systems, - Parallel processing and systems, - Distributed computing and systems, - Expert systems, artificial intelligence. This volume contains three invited papers, by E.C.R. Hehner, R.L. Probert, and S.J. Smith, and 71 selected papers.
Author: Ning Xiong
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031207386
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1527
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This book consists of papers on the recent progresses in the state of the art in natural computation, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery. The book is useful for researchers, including professors, graduate students, as well as R & D staff in the industry, with a general interest in natural computation, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery. The work printed in this book was presented at the 2022 18th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems, and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD 2022), held from 30 July to 1 August 2022, in Fuzhou, China. All papers were rigorously peer-reviewed by experts in the areas.
Author: Nigel Davies
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540301194
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Welcome to the proceedings of UbiComp 2004. In recent years the ubiquitous computing community has witnessed a sign- cant growth in the number of conferences in the area, each with its own disti- tive characteristics. For UbiComp these characteristics have always included a high-quality technical program and associated demonstrations and posters that cover the full range of research being carried out under the umbrella of ubiq- tous computing. Ours is a broaddiscipline andUbiComp aims to be aninclusive forum that welcomes submissions from researchers with many di?erent ba- grounds. This year we received 145 submissions. Of these we accepted 26, an acceptance rate of just under 18%. Of course acceptance rate is simply a m- sure of selectivity rather than quality and we were particularly pleased this year to note that we had a large number of high-quality submissions from which to assemble the program for 2004. The broad nature of ubiquitous computing research makes reviewing Ubi- Comp submissions a particular challenge. This year we adopted a new process for review and selection that has, we hope, resulted in all authors obtaining - tremely detailed feedback on their submission whether or not it was accepted for publication. We believe the process enabled us to assemble the best pos- ble program for delegates at the conference. If you submitted a paper, we hope that you bene?ted from the feedback that your peers have provided, and if you attended UbiComp 2004 we hope that you enjoyed the technical program.
Author: Jingsheng Lei
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642352111
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 829
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Network Computing and Information Security, NCIS 2012, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2012. The 104 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 517 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: applications of cryptography; authentication and non-repudiation; cloud computing; communication and information systems; design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms; information hiding and watermarking; intelligent networked systems; multimedia computing and intelligence; network and wireless network security; network communication; parallel and distributed systems; security modeling and architectures; sensor network; signal and information processing; virtualization techniques and applications; and wireless network.
Author: Oron Shagrir
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197552382
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Computing systems are ubiquitous in contemporary life. Even the brain is thought to be a computing system of sorts. But what does it mean to say that a given organ or system "computes"? What is it about laptops, smartphones, and nervous systems that they are deemed to compute - and why does itseldom occur to us to describe stomachs, hurricanes, rocks, or chairs that way? These questions are key to laying the conceptual foundations of computational sciences, including computer science and engineering, and the cognitive and neural sciences.Oron Shagrir here provides an extended argument for the semantic view of computation, which states that semantic properties are involved in the nature of computing systems. The first part of the book provides general background. Although different in scope, these chapters have a common theme-namely,that the linkage between the mathematical theory of computability and the notion of physical computation is weak. The second part of the book reviews existing non-semantic accounts of physical computation. Shagrir analyze three influential accounts in greater depth and argues that none of theseaccounts is satisfactory, but each of them highlights certain key features of physical computation that he eventually adopts in his own semantic account of physical computation - a view that rests on a phenomenon known as simultaneous implementation (or "indeterminacy of computation"). Shagrircompletes the characterization of his account of computation and highlights the distinctive feature of computational explanations.
