The unconventional computing is a niche for interdisciplinary science cross-bred of computer
science physics mathematics chemistry electronic engineering biology material science and
nanotechnology. The aims of this book are to uncover and exploit principles and mechanisms of
information processing in and functional properties of physical chemical and living systems to
develop efficient algorithms design optimal architectures and manufacture working prototypes
of future and emergent computing devices.This second volume presents experimental laboratory
prototypes and applied computing implementations. Emergent molecular computing is presented by
enzymatic logical gates and circuits and DNA nano-devices. Reaction-diffusion chemical
computing is exemplified by logical circuits in Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium and geometrical
computation in precipitating chemical reactions. Logical circuits realised with solitons and
impulses in polymer chains show advances in collision-based computing. Photo-chemical and
memristive devices give us a glimpse on hot topics of a novel hardware. Practical computing is
represented by algorithms of collective and immune-computing and nature-inspired optimisation.
Living computing devices are implemented in real and simulated cells regenerating organisms
plant roots and slime mould. The book is the encyclopedia the first ever complete
authoritative account of the theoretical and experimental findings in the unconventional
computing written by the world leaders in the field. All chapters are self-contains no
specialist background is required to appreciate ideas findings constructs and designs
presented. This treatise in unconventional computing appeals to readers from all walks of life
from high-school pupils to university professors from mathematicians computers scientists and
engineers to chemists and biologists.
