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Natural Computing and Beyond

Winter School Hakodate 2011, Hakodate, Japan, March 2011 and 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing, Tokyo, Japan, March 2012, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Proceedings in Information and Communications Technology (PICT, volume 6)

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Natural Computing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Ethological Response to Periodic Stimulation in Chara and Blepharisma

      • Itsuki Kunita, Sho Sato, Tetsu Saigusa, Toshiyuki Nakagaki
      Pages 3-13Open Access
    3. Adaptive Path-Finding and Transport Network Formation by the Amoeba-Like Organism Physarum

      • Itsuki Kunita, Kazunori Yoshihara, Atsushi Tero, Kentaro Ito, Chiu Fan Lee, Mark D. Fricker et al.
      Pages 14-29Open Access
    4. Towards Co-evolution of Information, Life and Artificial Life

      • Masami Hagiya, Ibuki Kawamata
      Pages 39-48Open Access
    5. Harness the Nature for Computation

      • Yasuhiro Suzuki
      Pages 49-70Open Access
    6. Things Theory of Art Should Learn from Natural Computing

      • Fuminori Akiba
      Pages 71-81Open Access
    7. Study on the Use of Evolutionary Techniques for Inference in Gene Regulatory Networks

      • Leon Palafox, Nasimul Noman, Hitoshi Iba
      Pages 82-92Open Access
    8. Design and Control of Synthetic Biological Systems

      • Ryoji Sekine, Masayuki Yamamura
      Pages 104-114Open Access
  3. Satellite Symposium on Computational Aesthetics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
    2. Preface: Natural Computing and Computational Aesthetics

      • Fuminori Akiba
      Pages 117-118Open Access
    3. Perceiving the Gap: Asynchronous Coordination of Plural Algorithms and Disconnected Logical Types in Ambient Space

      • Miki Goan, Katsuyoshi Tsujita, Takuma Ishikawa, Shinichi Takashima, Susumu Kihara, Kenjiro Okazaki
      Pages 130-147Open Access
  4. Back Matter

About this book

This book contains the joint proceedings of the Winter School of Hakodate (WSH) 2011 held in Hakodate, Japan, March 15–16, 2011, and the 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing (6th IWNC) held in Tokyo, Japan, March 28–30, 2012, organized by the Special Interest Group of Natural Computing (SIG-NAC), the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). This volume compiles refereed contributions to various aspects of natural computing, ranging from computing with slime mold, artificial chemistry, eco-physics, and synthetic biology, to computational aesthetics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nagoya University, Japan

    Yasuhiro Suzuki

  • Future University Hakodate, Japan

    Toshiyuki Nakagaki

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