Full Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2015, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in August/September 2015. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including among others molecular (DNA) computing; quantum computing; optical computing; chaos computing; physarum computing; computation in hyperbolic spaces; collision-based computing; cellular automata; neural computation; evolutionary computation; swarm intelligence; nature-inspired algorithms; artificial immune systems; artificial life; membrane computing; amorphous computing; computational systems biology; genetic networks; protein-protein networks; transport networks; synthetic biology; cellular (in vivo) computing; and computations beyond the Turing model and philosophical aspects of computing.
Contents
The Unconventionality of Nature: Biology, from Noise to Functional Randomness.- Ultrametric Algorithms and Automata.- Realism and Texture: Benchmark Problems for Natural Computation.- Quantum Computing Meets the Real World.- BL: A Visual Computing Framework for Interactive Neural System. Models of Embodied Cognition and Face to Face Social Learning.- Computations with Grossone-based Infinities.- Exploring the Effect of Cell Heterogeneity in Wound Healing Using a 3D Multicellular Tissue Growth Model.- Regularized Linear and Nonlinear Autoregressive Models for Dengue Confirmed-Cases Prediction.- Asynchronous Spiking Neural P Systems with Structural Plasticity.- Expressive Power of Non-Deterministic Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks in Terms of their Attractor Dynamics.- Duplications and Pseudo-Duplications.- Going Beyond Turing with P Automata.- DiSCUS: A Simulation Platform for Conjugation Computing.- A Cost / Speed / Reliability Trade-Off to Erasing.- Replication of Arbitrary Hole-free Shapes via Self-assembly with Signal-passing Tiles.- Efficient Card-based Protocols for Generating a Hidden Random Permutation without Fixed Points.- Simulation of the 2JLP Gene Assembly Process in Ciliates.- A Uniform Family of Tissue P Systems with Protein on Cells Solving 3-Coloring in Linear Time.- Asynchronous Dynamics of Boolean Automata Double-Cycles.- Non-cooperative Algorithms in Self-assembly.- Tangle Machines.- Formalisation vs Understanding; A Case Study in Isabelle.
