This open access State-of-the-Art Survey presents the main recent scientific outcomes in the area of reversible computation, focusing on those that have emerged during COST Action IC1405 "Reversible Computation - Extending Horizons of Computing", a European research network that operated from May 2015 to April 2019. Reversible computation is a new paradigm that extends the traditional forwards-only mode of computation with the ability to execute in reverse, so that computation can run backwards as easily and naturally as forwards. It aims to deliver novel computing devices and software, and to enhance existing systems by equipping them with reversibility. There are many potential applications of reversible computation, including languages and software tools for reliable and recovery-oriented distributed systems and revolutionary reversible logic gates and circuits, but they can only be realized and have lasting effect if conceptual and firm theoretical foundations are established first.

This open access State-of-the-Art Survey presents the main recent scientific outcomes in the area of reversible computation, focusing on those that have emerged during COST Action IC1405 "Reversible Computation - Extending Horizons of Computing", a European research network that operated from May 2015 to April 2019. Reversible computation is a new paradigm that extends the traditional forwards-only mode of computation with the ability to execute in reverse, so that computation can run backwards as easily and naturally as forwards. It aims to deliver novel computing devices and software, and to enhance existing systems by equipping them with reversibility. There are many potential applications of reversible computation, including languages and software tools for reliable and recovery-oriented distributed systems and revolutionary reversible logic gates and circuits, but they can only be realized and have lasting effect if conceptual and firm theoretical foundations are established first. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

This open access State-of-the-Art Survey presents the main recent scientific outcomes in the area of reversible computation, focusing on those that have emerged during COST Action IC1405 "Reversible Computation - Extending Horizons of Computing", a European research network that operated from May 2015 to April 2019. Reversible computation is a new paradigm that extends the traditional forwards-only mode of computation with the ability to execute in reverse, so that computation can run backwards as easily and naturally as forwards. It aims to deliver novel computing devices and software, and to enhance existing systems by equipping them with reversibility. There are many potential applications of reversible computation, including languages and software tools for reliable and recovery-oriented distributed systems and revolutionary reversible logic gates and circuits, but they can only be realized and have lasting effect if conceptual and firm theoretical foundations are established first.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Reversible Computation, RC 2019, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in June 2019. The 12 full papers and two short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. One invited talk is also included. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: theory and foundation; programming languages; circuit synthesis; evaluation of circuit synthesis; and applications and implementations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Reversible Computation, RC 2018, held in Leicester, UK, in September 2018. The 13 full, 7 short, and one tutorial papers included in this volume together with four invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: reversible concurrent computation; quantum circuits; reversible programming languages; and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Reversible Computation, RC 2016, held in Bologna, Italy, in July 2016. The 18 full and 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: process calculi; reversible models; programming languages; quantum computing; quantum programming; circuit theory; and syntheses.