A structural approach to reversible computation

S Abramsky - Theoretical Computer Science, 2005 - Elsevier
Reversibility is a key issue in the interface between computation and physics, and of
growing importance as miniaturization progresses towards its physical limits. Most …

What do reversible programs compute?

HB Axelsen, R Glück - … of Software Science and Computational Structures …, 2011 - Springer
Reversible computing is the study of computation models that exhibit both forward and
backward determinism. Understanding the fundamental properties of such models is not …

Reversible computing

T Toffoli - International colloquium on automata, languages, and …, 1980 - Springer
The theory of reversible computing is based on invertible primitives and composition rules
that preserve invertibility. With these constraints, one can still satisfactorily deal with both …

Isomorphic interpreters from logically reversible abstract machines

RP James, A Sabry - … Computation: 4th International Workshop, RC 2012 …, 2013 - Springer
In our previous work, we developed a reversible programming language and established
that every computation in it is a (partial) isomorphism that is reversible and that preserves …

[PDF][PDF] Reversibility for efficient computing

MP Frank, TF Knight Jr - 1999 - eng-web1.eng.famu.fsu.edu
Today's computers are based on irreversible logic devices, which have been known to be
fundamentally energy-inefficient for several decades. Recently, alternative reversible logic …

Reversible computing and cellular automata—A survey

K Morita - Theoretical Computer Science, 2008 - Elsevier
Reversible computing is a paradigm where computing models are defined so that they
reflect physical reversibility, one of the fundamental microscopic physical property of Nature …

[HTML][HTML] Reversible computing from a programming language perspective

R Glück, T Yokoyama - Theoretical Computer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Software plays a central role in all aspects of reversible computing systems, and a variety of
reversible programming languages have been developed. This presentation highlights the …

On reversible turing machines and their function universality

HB Axelsen, R Glück - Acta Informatica, 2016 - Springer
We provide a treatment of the reversible Turing machines (RTMs) under a strict function
semantics. Unlike many existing reversible computation models, we distinguish strictly …

Foundations of generalized reversible computing

MP Frank - International Conference on Reversible Computation, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Information loss from a computation implies energy dissipation due to Landauer's
Principle. Thus, increasing the amount of useful computational work that can be …

[PDF][PDF] Foundations of reversible computation

B Aman, G Ciobanu, R Glück… - … Extending Horizons of …, 2020 - library.oapen.org
Reversible computation allows computation to proceed not only in the standard, forward
direction, but also backward, recovering past states. While reversible computation has …