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Foil 65 Physical Optimization and Computation Approaches and their Field of Origin

From Complex Systems and Parallel Computing CPSP713 Case studies in Computational Science -- Spring Semester 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Examples of Physical Computation
  • Cellular Automata
  • Complex Systems
2 Physical (Pertaining to Nature) optimization and associated field
  • Genetic Algorithms Evolution
  • Simulated Annealing Physics(Statistical)
  • Neural Networks Biology (low level)
  • Information Theory Electrical Engineering
    • (Maximum Entropy)
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  • Elastic Networks Physics (Determiistic)
  • Deterministic Annealing
3 These can be compared with
  • Heuristics Particular Problem
  • Combinatorial optimization Mathematics
  • Expert systems Computer Scienc (High level reasoning)
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