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Complexity of Continuous Space Machine Operations
Complexity of Continuous Space Machine Operations   (Citations: 7)
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We investigate the computational complexity of an optical model of computation called the continuous space machine (CSM). We characterise worst case resource growth over time for each of the CSM's ten operations with respect to seven resource measures. Many operations exhibit unreasonably large growth rates thus motivating restrictions on the CSM, in particular we give a restriction called the C2-CSM.
Conference: Conference on Computability in Europe - CIE , pp. 540-551, 2005
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    • ...Also, the growth in resource usage was shown for each CSM operation, which in some cases was unreasonably large [14, 15]...
    • ...In [14, 15] we dened theC2-CSM, a restricted class of CSM...

    Damien Woodset al. Lower bounds on the computational power of an optical model of computa...

    • ...A less restricted CSM definition [20,35] was shown to be too general for proving reasonable upper bounds on its computational power [33], so in this paper we mostly focus on computational complexity results for a restricted CSM called the C2-CSM...
    • ...Motivated by a desire to apply standard complexity theory tools to the model, we defined [30,33] the C2-CSM, a restricted class of CSM...
    • ...We have replaced the Fourier transform with the DFT [5], this essentially means that freq is now solely dependent on spatialRes; hence freq is not an interesting complexity measure for C2-CSMs and we do not analyse C2-CSMs in terms of freq complexity [30,33]...

    Damien Woodset al. Parallel and Sequential Optical Computing

    • ...We investigated the growth of complexity resources over time, with respect to CSM operations [26, 28]...
    • ...Some entries are immediate from the complexity measure denitions, for others proofs are given in the references [26, 28]...
    • ...Motivated by a desire to apply standard complexity theory tools to the model, we dened [26, 28] the C2-CSM, a restricted and more realistic class of CSM...
    • ...We have replaced the Fourier transform with the DFT [3], this essentially means that freq is now solely dependent on spatialRes; hence freq is not an interesting complexity measure for C2-CSMs and we do not analyse C2-CSMs in terms of freq complexity [26, 28]...

    Damien Woods. Optical Computing and Computational Complexity

    • ...Much of the work presented here has appeared in published form [WN05, WG05a, WG05b, Woo, NW01]...

    Damien Woods. Computational complexity of an optical model of computation

    • ...The computational model we study is relatively new and is called the continuous space machine (CSM) [11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23]...
    • ...Also, the growth in resource usage was shown for each CSM operation, which in some cases was unreasonably large [21]...
    • ...In earlier treatments [21, 23] we defined the complexity measures amplRes, phaseRes and freq. amplRes and phaseRes are measures of the cardinality of discrete amplitude and phase values of the complex numbers in the range of CSM images...
    • ...In [21, 20] we defined the C2-CSM, a restricted and more realistic class of CSM...

    Damien Woodset al. Upper Bounds on the Computational Power of an Optical Model of Computa...

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