{"paper":{"title":"A Survey and Discussion of Memcomputing Machines","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.CC"],"primary_cat":"cs.ET","authors_text":"Daniel Saunders","submitted_at":"2017-04-18T14:25:17Z","abstract_excerpt":"This paper serves as a review and discussion of the recent works on memcomputing. In particular, the $\\textit{universal memcomputing machine}$ (UMM) and the $\\textit{digital memcomputing machine}$ (DMM) are discussed. We review the memcomputing concept in the dynamical systems framework and assess the algorithms offered for computing $NP$ problems in the UMM and DMM paradigms. We argue that the UMM is a physically implausible machine, and that the DMM model, as described by numerical simulations, is no more powerful than Turing-complete computation. We claim that the evidence for the resolutio"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1704.06145","kind":"arxiv","version":4},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}