Chemical Programming for Organic Computing

Titel:	Chemical Programming for Organic Computing
Dozent(in):	Prof. Dr. Peter Dittrich von der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Termin:	22.11.07, 17.15 s.t.
Gebäude/Raum:	Eichleitnerstrasse 30, Hörsaal 207
Ansprechpartner:	Prof. Dr. Theo Ungerer

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Chemical information processing posseses a variety of valuable properties, such as, robustness, concurrency, fault-tolerance, and evolvability. However, it is difficult to predict and program a chemical system, because the computation emerges as a global phenomenon from microscopic reactions.

In this talk I will present design principles for chemical programs by focussing  on programs that should compute a qualitative and not quantitative result. The design principles are based on chemical organization theory, which defines a chemical organization as a closed and self-maintaining set of molecular species. The fundamental assumption of so called organization-oriented programming is that computation should be understood as a movement between chemical organizations. In this case we expect that the resulting system is more robust, and fine-tuning of the kinetic laws will be less important.