Years and Authors of Summarized Original Work
2005; Aggarwal, Cheng, Goldwasser, Kao, Espanes, Schweller
2012; Chen, Doty
2013; Cannon, Demaine, Demaine, Eisenstat, Patitz, Schweller, Summers, Winslow
Problem Definition
The general idea of hierarchical self-assembly (a.k.a., multiple tile [2], polyomino [8, 10], two-handed [3, 5, 6]) is to model self-assembly of tiles in which attachment of two multi-tile assemblies is allowed, as opposed to all attachments being that of a single tile onto a larger assembly. Several problems concern comparing hierarchical self-assembly to its single-tile-attachment variant (called the “seeded” model of self-assembly), so we define both models here. The model of hierarchical self-assembly was first defined (in a slightly different form that restricted the size of assemblies that could attach) by Aggarwal, Cheng, Goldwasser, Kao, Moisset de Espanes, and Schweller [2]. Several generalizations of the model exist that incorporated staged mixing...
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Supported by NSF grants CCF-1219274, CCF-1162589, and 1317694.
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Doty, D. (2016). Hierarchical Self-Assembly. In: Kao, MY. (eds) Encyclopedia of Algorithms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2864-4_667
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