AUTHOR=Arellanes Damian 

TITLE=Models of high-level computation

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Computer Science

VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2025

YEAR=2025

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computer-science/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2025.1564048

DOI=10.3389/fcomp.2025.1564048

ISSN=2624-9898

ABSTRACT=Classical models of computation are useful for understanding computability in the small; however, they fall short when it comes to analyzing large-scale, complex computations. To address this gap, theoretical computer science has witnessed the emergence of several formalisms that attempt to raise the level of abstraction with the aim of describing not only a single computing device but interactions among a collection of them. In this paper, we unify such formalisms under a common framework, which we refer to as Models of High-Level Computation. Our aim is to offer an accessible overview of these models.