Membrane computing with water
Hinze, Thomas, Happe, Hendrik, Henderson, Alec, and Nicolescu, Radu (2020) Membrane computing with water. Journal of Membrane Computing, 2 (2). pp. 121-136.
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Abstract
We introduce water tank systems as a new class of membrane systems inspired by a decentrally controlled circulation of water or other liquids throughout cells called tanks and capillaries called pipes. To our best knowledge, this is the first proposal addressing the behavioural principle of floating and stored water for modelling of information processing in terms of membrane computing. The volume of water within a tank stands for a non-negative rational value when acting in an analogue computation or it can be interpreted in a binary manner by distinction of “(nearly) full” or “(nearly) empty”. Water tanks might be interconnected by pipes for directed transport of water. Each pipe can be equipped with valves which in turn either fully open or fully close the hosting pipe according to permanent measurements whether the filling level in a dedicated water tank exceeds a certain threshold or not. We demonstrate dedicated water tank systems together with simulation case studies: a ring oscillator for generation of clock signals and for iteratively making available amounts of water in a cyclic scheme, analogue arithmetics by implementation of addition, non-negative subtraction, division, and multiplication complemented by systems in binary mode for implementation of selected logic gates.
| Item ID: | 75513 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2523-8914 |
| Keywords: | Arithmetics, Autonomous operation, Membrane system, Water-based computing |
| Copyright Information: | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2022 23:12 |
| FoR Codes: | 46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES > 4613 Theory of computation > 461399 Theory of computation not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280115 Expanding knowledge in the information and computing sciences @ 100% |
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