Jumping Computation

Chapter 10Summary and Bibliographical Remarks

The present book has been written for one reason and one reason only: a necessary update of the fundamental formal models used in the theory of computation for discontinuous information processing, which belongs to the most common ways of computation on today's mutually heavily cooperating multi-processor computers. In the previous century, most classical computer science methods were developed for continuous information processing; accordingly, their models work on the input string-represented information in a strictly continuous way from the left side to the right side of the string. Today's methods, however, often process information in an utterly discontinuous way so that they jump over large ...