title: Multiargument logical operations performed with excitable chemical medium.
abstract: Assuming that a pulse of excitation corresponds to the logical "true" state one can use a chemical medium for information processing and construct devices that execute the basic binary logical operations. Here we discuss direct chemical realizations of four argument logical functions equivalent to special types of McCulloch-Pitts neuron. We demonstrate that if a proper geometrical arrangement of excitable and nonexcitable areas is used then the construction of the considered devices can be much simpler than in the case where they are composed of chemical binary logical gates.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotnikow 36/42, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland. gorec@ifpan.edu.pl
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gorecka
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gorecki