Quantum spatial computing
Martin Werner · SIGSPATIAL Special · 2019
Quantum computing is expected to create a major shift across the whole computing industry given that it can solve a certain set of operations that used to be very hard in comparably short time. In this article, the author intends to introduce central aspects of quantum algorithms to the GIS community and explores some probable directions of research related to quantum computing for spatial algorithms. The author hopes that this paper enables researchers of our community to place an informed decision whether and when it is worth looking at this exciting new area of algorithm research and computing while staying on an abstraction level high enough for concise presentation.