: My aim in this paper is to articulate an account of scientific modeling that reconciles pluralism about modeling with a modest form of scientific realism. The central claim of th...
—The emerging biometric cryptography has gained significant interests for key management and privacy protection, but the previously proposed schemes using set metrics for finge...
Harvesting energy from the environment is a desirable and increasingly important capability in several emerging applications of embedded systems such as sensor networks, biomedica...
Advances in the creation of computational materials are transforming our thinking about relations between the physical and digital. In this paper we characterize this transformati...
We consider temporal aspects of self-replication and evolvability – in particular, the massively asynchronous parallel and distributed nature of living systems. Formal views of s...