Emergent Computation

Simple Deterministic Algorithms for Generating "Good" Musical Rhythms.- A Hierarchy for BPP log based on Counting Calls to an Oracle.- On Computable Numbers, Nonuniversality, and the Genuine Power of Parallelism.- On the Microscopic View of Time and Messages.- Descriptional Complexity of Error Detection.-A Less Known Side of Quantum Cryptography.- Emergence in Context-Free Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems: What Does and Does Not Make a Grammar System More Expressive than Its Parts.-Structural Properties of the Generalized Exchanged Hypercubes.- Enumerated BSP Automata.- Coping with Silent Errors in HPC Applications.- Parallel Sorting For GPUs.- Mining for Functional Dependencies Using Shared Radix Trees in Many-Core Multi-Threaded Systems.- Cellular Automata and Wireless Sensor Networks.- Connectivity Preserving Network Transformers.- Operating Secure Mobile Healthcare Services over Constrained Resource Networks.- On Vague Computers.- Parallel evolutionary Optimization of Natural Convection Problem.- Theory and Practice of Discrete Interacting Agents Models.-Vehicular Clouds: Ubiquitous Computing on Wheels.- Computational Approaches to Epigenetic Drug Discovery.-Dimensionality Reduction for Intrusion Detection Systems in Multi-data Streams- a Review and Proposal of Unsupervised Feature Selection Scheme.- Physical Maze Solvers. All Twelve Prototypes Implement 1961 Lee algorithm.- Computer Chess Endgame Play with Pawns: Then and Now.- Community Detection Using Synthetic Coordinates and Flow Propagation.

"The body of the book is a set of 26 papers that also demonstrate a diversity of interests among Akl ... his students, his collaborators, his friends, and other researchers who contributed. ... The breadth of ideas makes this volume interesting reading for those who want an understanding of some of the diverse topics it covers, while the specific contributions will be of interest to specialists in the relevant areas." (Computing Reviews, August, 2017)