Some recent developments on Shannon's general purpose analog computer

D Silva Graça - Mathematical Logic Quarterly: Mathematical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This paper revisits one of the first models of analog computation, the General Purpose
Analog Computer (GPAC). In particular, we restrict our attention to the improved model …

[HTML][HTML] Analog computers and recursive functions over the reals

DS Graça, JF Costa - Journal of Complexity, 2003 - Elsevier
In this paper we show that Shannon's general purpose analog computer (GPAC) is
equivalent to a particular class of recursive functions over the reals with the flavour of …

Computability with polynomial differential equations

DS Graça, ML Campagnolo, J Buescu - Advances in Applied Mathematics, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper, we show that there are initial value problems defined with polynomial ordinary
differential equations that can simulate universal Turing machines in the presence of …

A survey on analog models of computation

O Bournez, A Pouly - Handbook of Computability and Complexity in …, 2021 - Springer
A Survey on Analog Models of Computation Page 1 Chapter 6 A Survey on Analog Models of
Computation Olivier Bournez and Amaury Pouly Abstract We present a survey on analog …

A survey on continuous time computations

O Bournez, ML Campagnolo - New computational paradigms: Changing …, 2008 - Springer
We provide an overview of theories of continuous time computation. These theories allow us
to understand both the hardness of questions related to continuous time dynamical systems …

A characterization of functions over the integers computable in polynomial time using discrete ordinary differential equations

O Bournez, A Durand - computational complexity, 2023 - Springer
This paper studies the expressive and computational power of discrete Ordinary Differential
Equations (ODEs), aka (Ordinary) Difference Equations. It presents a new framework using …

Continuous models of computation: from computability to complexity

A Pouly - 2015 - pastel.hal.science
In 1941, Claude Shannon introduced a continuous-time analog model of computation,
namely the General Purpose Analog Computer (GPAC). The GPAC is a physically feasible …

Robust non-computability of dynamical systems and computability of robust dynamical systems

DS Graça, N Zhong - Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2024 - lmcs.episciences.org
In this paper, we examine the relationship between the stability of the dynamical system
x′= f (x) and the computability of its basins of attraction. We present a computable C∞ …

Robust simulations of Turing machines with analytic maps and flows

DS Graça, ML Campagnolo, J Buescu - … The Netherlands, June 8-12, 2005 …, 2005 - Springer
LNCS 3526 - Robust Simulations of Turing Machines with Analytic Maps and Flows Page 1
Robust Simulations of Turing Machines with Analytic Maps and Flows * Daniel S. Graça 1,2,⋆⋆ …

Real recursive functions and their hierarchy

J Mycka, JF Costa - Journal of Complexity, 2004 - Elsevier
In the last years, recursive functions over the reals (Theoret. Comput. Sci. 162 (1996) 23)
have been considered, first as a model of analog computation, and second to obtain analog …