Exact cover with light

New Generation Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 329-346

  Oltean, Mihai ^a   Muntean, Oana ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Exact Cover; Natural computing; NP complete problems; Optical computing; Unconventional computing

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

CORRECT SOLUTION; DESTINATION NODES; EXACT COVER PROBLEM; EXACT COVERS; MASSIVE PARALLELISM; NATURAL COMPUTING; OPTICAL SOLUTIONS; UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 51649130745     PISSN: 02883635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00354-008-0049-5     Document Type: Article

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