Small Turing universal signal machines

Jérôme Durand-Lose

This article aims at providing signal machines as small as possible able to perform any computation (in the classical understanding). After presenting signal machines, it is shown how to get universal ones from Turing machines, cellular-automata and cyclic tag systems. Finally a halting universal signal machine with 13 meta-signals and 21 collision rules is presented.

In Turlough Neary, Damien Woods, Tony Seda and Niall Murphy: Proceedings International Workshop on The Complexity of Simple Programs (CSP 2008), Cork, Ireland, 6-7th December 2008, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 1, pp. 70–80.
Published: 25th June 2009.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.1.7 bibtex PDF

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