From Parallel to Emergent Computing

Andrew Adamatzky is Professor of Unconventional Computing and Director of theUnconventional Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Universityof the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. He does research in molecular computing,reaction-diffusion computing, collision-based computing, cellular automata,slime mould computing, massive parallel computation, applied mathematics, complexity,nature-inspired optimisation, collective intelligence and robotics, bionics,computational psychology, non-linear science, novel hardware, and future and emergentcomputation. He authored seven books, including Reaction-Diffusion Computers(Elsevier, 2005), Dynamics of Crowd-Minds (World Scientific, 2005), and PhysarumMachines (World Scientific, 2010), and edited 22 books in computing, including CollisionBased Computing (Springer, 2002), Game of Life Cellular Automata (Springer, 2010),and Memristor Networks (Springer, 2014); he also produced a series of influentialartworks published in the atlas Silence of Slime Mould (Luniver Press, 2014). He isfounding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cellular Automata (2005-) and the Journalof Unconventional Computing (2005-) and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Parallel,Emergent, Distributed Systems (2014-) and Parallel Processing Letters (2018-).Selim G. Akl (Ph.D., McGill University, 1978) is a Professor at Queen's Universityin the Queen's School of Computing, where he leads the Parallel and UnconventionalComputation Group. His research interests are primarily in the area of algorithmdesign and analysis, in particular for problems in parallel computing and unconventionalcomputing. Dr. Akl is the author of Parallel Sorting Algorithms (Academic Press,1985), The Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms (Prentice Hall, 1989), andParallel Computation: Models and Methods (Prentice Hall, 1997). He is co-author ofParallel Computational Geometry (Prentice Hall, 1993), Adaptive Cryptographic AccessControl (Springer, 2010), and Applications of Quantum Cryptography (Lambert, 2016).Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis is a Professor in Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. His current research emphasisis on complex electronic systems, future and emergent electronic devices, circuits,models and architectures (memristors, quantum cellular automata, etc.), novel computingdevices and circuits, cellular automata, unconventional computing, high-performancecomputing, cyber-physical and embedded systems, bioinspired computation andbioengineering, FPGAs, modelling, and simulation. He co-authored two books, namelyMemristor-Based Nanoelectronic Computing Circuits and Architectures (Springer,2016) and Artificial Intelligence and Applications (Krikos Publishing, 2010) and coeditedthree books.