Overview
- Provides an overview of Reversible Computation (RC) area, written by internationally renowned scientists
- Presents the results of the COST Action IC1405 Reversible Computation - extending horizons of computing
- Discusses foundations, specific technical challenges, and potential applications in software and systems and reversible circuit design, validated via practical case studies
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 12070)
Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)
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This open access State-of-the-Art Survey presents the main recent scientific outcomes in the area of reversible computation, focusing on those that have emerged during COST Action IC1405 "Reversible Computation - Extending Horizons of Computing", a European research network that operated from May 2015 to April 2019.
Reversible computation is a new paradigm that extends the traditional forwards-only mode of computation with the ability to execute in reverse, so that computation can run backwards as easily and naturally as forwards. It aims to deliver novel computing devices and software, and to enhance existing systems by equipping them with reversibility. There are many potential applications of reversible computation, including languages and software tools for reliable and recovery-oriented distributed systems and revolutionary reversible logic gates and circuits, but they can only be realized and have lasting effect if conceptual and firm theoretical foundations are established first.
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Keywords
- open access
- reversible computation
- semantics of reversible computation
- formal methods
- models of computation
- circuit design
- simulation
- robotics
- formal methods
- debugging
- quantum computing
- wireless communications
- programming languages
- dependability
- modelling of biochemical systems
- computer networks
- engineering
- software engineering
- parallel processing systems
- theoretical computer science
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reversible Computation: Extending Horizons of Computing
Book Subtitle: Selected Results of the COST Action IC1405
Editors: Irek Ulidowski, Ivan Lanese, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Carla Ferreira
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47361-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47360-0Published: 14 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47361-7Published: 13 May 2020
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 237
Number of Illustrations: 121 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Logic Design, Computer System Implementation, Computer Communication Networks, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Operating Systems