computability theory and computational complexity theory, a model of computation is a model which describes how an output of a mathematical function is...

A computational model uses computer programs to simulate and study complex systems using an algorithmic or mechanistic approach and is widely used in...

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...

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...

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...

science, a nondeterministic Turing machine (NTM) is a theoretical model of computation whose governing rules specify more than one possible action when...

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...

computational complexity or simply complexity of an algorithm is the amount of resources required to run it. Particular focus is given to computation...

Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate...

introducing mathematical models of computation to study these problems and quantifying their computational complexity, i.e., the amount of resources needed to...

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...

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...

operation of the model can be derived/deduced from these computational experiments. Examples of common computational models are weather forecasting models, earth...

Computational biology refers to the use of techniques in computer science, data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand...

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...

A computation is any type of arithmetic or non-arithmetic calculation that is well-defined. Common examples of computation are mathematical equation solving...

system. Computational neuroscience employs computational simulations to validate and solve mathematical models, and so can be seen as a sub-field of theoretical...

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...

deterministic model of computation, for example a deterministic Turing machine, is a model of computation such that the successive states of the machine...

In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a model of computation, a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or...

upper-bounded by some polynomial function of the input size. The definition naturally depends on the computational model, which determines how the running time...

Models of neural computation are attempts to elucidate, in an abstract and mathematical fashion, the core principles that underlie information processing...

computing is any model of computation where every step of the process is time-reversible. This means that, given the output of a computation, it is possible...

rights, a model of computation, a model of distributed computing, or no particular theoretical grounding at all. A computer security model is implemented...

interactive computation is a mathematical model for computation that involves input/output communication with the external world during computation. Among...

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...

entangled states and the (non-deterministic) outcomes of quantum measurements as features of its computation. Ordinary ("classical") computers operate, by contrast...

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...

nature-inspired models of computation are cellular automata, neural computation, and evolutionary computation. More recent computational systems abstracted...

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...