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Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation

13th International Conference, UCNC 2014, London, ON, Canada, July 14-18, 2014, Proceedings

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Oscar H. Ibarra

    1. Santa Barbara College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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  2. Lila Kari

    1. University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

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  3. Steffen Kopecki

    1. University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8553)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-24
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  2. Five Nodes Are Sufficient for Hybrid Networks of Evolutionary Processors to Be Computationally Complete

    • Artiom Alhazov, Rudolf Freund, Yurii Rogozhin
    Pages 1-13

  3. Learning Two-Input Linear and Nonlinear Analog Functions with a Simple Chemical System

    • Peter Banda, Christof Teuscher
    Pages 14-26

  4. Scaled Tree Fractals Do not Strictly Self-assemble

    • Kimberly Barth, David Furcy, Scott M. Summers, Paul Totzke
    Pages 27-39

  5. GUBS a Language for Synthetic Biology: Specification and Compilation

    • Adrien Basso-Blandin, Franck Delaplace
    Pages 40-53

  6. Modeling Syntactic Complexity with P Systems: A Preview

    • Gemma Bel Enguix, Benedek Nagy
    Pages 54-66

  7. Simulating Cancer Growth Using Cellular Automata to Detect Combination Drug Targets

    • Jenna Butler, Frances Mackay, Colin Denniston, Mark Daley
    Pages 67-79

  8. Towards an MP Model for B Lymphocytes Maturation

    • Alberto Castellini, Giuditta Franco, Vincenzo Manca, Riccardo Ortolani, Antonio Vella
    Pages 80-92

  9. Pseudo-inversion on Formal Languages

    • Da-Jung Cho, Yo-Sub Han, Shin-Dong Kang, Hwee Kim, Sang-Ki Ko, Kai Salomaa
    Pages 93-104

  10. Reverse-Engineering Nonlinear Analog Circuits with Evolutionary Computation

    • Theodore W. Cornforth, Hod Lipson
    Pages 105-116

  11. Steps toward Developing an Artificial Cell Signaling Model Applied to Distributed Fault Detection

    • Dipankar Dasgupta, Guilherme Costa Silva
    Pages 117-128

  12. Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Array

    • Mark E. Dean, Catherine D. Schuman, J. Douglas Birdwell
    Pages 129-141

  13. Producibility in Hierarchical Self-assembly

    • David Doty
    Pages 142-154

  14. Unconventional Arithmetic: A System for Computation Using Action Potentials

    • Jonathan Edwards, Simon O’Keefe, William D. Henderson
    Pages 155-163

  15. Reservoir Computing Approach to Robust Computation Using Unreliable Nanoscale Networks

    • Alireza Goudarzi, Matthew R. Lakin, Darko Stefanovic
    Pages 164-176

  16. On DNA-Based Gellular Automata

    • Masami Hagiya, Shaoyu Wang, Ibuki Kawamata, Satoshi Murata, Teijiro Isokawa, Ferdinand Peper et al.
    Pages 177-189

  17. Doubles and Negatives are Positive (in Self-assembly)

    • Jacob Hendricks, Matthew J. Patitz, Trent A. Rogers
    Pages 190-202

  18. On String Languages Generated by Sequential Spiking Neural P Systems Based on Maximum Spike Number

    • Keqin Jiang, Yuzhou Zhang, Linqiang Pan
    Pages 203-215

  19. Languages Associated with Crystallographic Symmetry

    • NataÅ¡a Jonoska, Mile Krajcevski, Gregory McColm
    Pages 216-228

  20. An Energy-Efficient Computing Approach by Filling the Connectome Gap

    • Yasunao Katayama, Toshiyuki Yamane, Daiju Nakano
    Pages 229-241
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2014, held in London, ON, Canada, in July 2014. The 31 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including among others molecular, quantum, optical and chaos computing as well as neural computation, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence and computational neuroscience.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Santa Barbara College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

    Oscar H. Ibarra

  • University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    Lila Kari, Steffen Kopecki

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation

  • Book Subtitle: 13th International Conference, UCNC 2014, London, ON, Canada, July 14-18, 2014, Proceedings

  • Editors: Oscar H. Ibarra, Lila Kari, Steffen Kopecki

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08123-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08122-9Published: 25 July 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08123-6Published: 08 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 394

  • Number of Illustrations: 183 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Computation by Abstract Devices, Theory of Computation, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence

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