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Susan Stepney, Viv Kendon.
The role of the representational entity in physical computing.

UCNC 2019, Tokyo, Japan, June 2019, LNCS 11493:219–231. Springer, 2019

Abstract:

We have developed abstraction/representation (AR) theory to answer the question “When does a physical system compute?” AR theory requires the existence of a representational entity (RE), but the vanilla theory does not explicitly include the RE in its definition of physical computing. Here we extend the theory by showing how the RE forms a linked complementary model to the physical computing model, and demonstrate its use in the case of intrinsic computing in a non-human RE: a bacterium.

full paper | doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19311-9_18

@inproceedings(StepneyKendon:2019:UCNC,
  author = "Susan Stepney and Viv Kendon",
  title = "The role of the representational entity in physical computing",
  pages = "219-231",    
  doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-19311-9_18",
  crossref = "UCNC:2019"
)

@proceedings(UCNC:2019,
  title = "UCNC 2019, Tokyo, Japan, June 2019",
  booktitle = "UCNC 2019, Tokyo, Japan, June 2019",
  series = "LNCS",
  volume = 11493,
  publisher = "Springer",
  year = 2019
)