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Unconventional Computation

5th International Conference, UC 2006, York, UK, September 4-8, 2006, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4135)

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

Conference series link(s): UC: International Conference on Unconventional Computation

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Invited Papers

    1. Rational Models of Cognitive Control

      • Michael C. Mozer
      Pages 20-25
    2. Fault-Tolerance in Biochemical Systems

      • Erik Winfree
      Pages 26-26
  3. Regular Papers

    1. Peptide Computing – Universality and Theoretical Model

      • M. Sakthi Balan, Helmut Jürgensen
      Pages 57-71
    2. Handling Markov Chains with Membrane Computing

      • Mónica Cardona, M. Angels Colomer, Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, Alba Zaragoza
      Pages 72-85
    3. Physical Systems as Constructive Logics

      • Peter Hines
      Pages 101-112
    4. On Spiking Neural P Systems and Partially Blind Counter Machines

      • Oscar H. Ibarra, Sara Woodworth, Fang Yu, Andrei Păun
      Pages 113-129
    5. Chemical Information Processing Devices Constructed Using a Nonlinear Medium with Controlled Excitability

      • Yasuhiro Igarashi, Jerzy Gorecki, Joanna Natalia Gorecka
      Pages 130-138
    6. Flexible Versus Rigid Tile Assembly

      • Nataša Jonoska, Gregory L. McColm
      Pages 139-151
    7. On Pure Catalytic P Systems

      • Shankara Narayanan Krishna
      Pages 152-165
    8. The Number of Orbits of Periodic Box-Ball Systems

      • Akihiro Mikoda, Shuichi Inokuchi, Yoshihiro Mizoguchi, Mitsuhiko Fujio
      Pages 181-194
    9. The Euclid Abstract Machine: Trisection of the Angle and the Halting Problem

      • Jerzy Mycka, Francisco Coelho, José Félix Costa
      Pages 195-206
    10. Optimizing Potential Information Transfer with Self-referential Memory

      • Mikhail Prokopenko, Daniel Polani, Peter Wang
      Pages 228-242

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand

    Cristian S. Calude

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Michael J. Dinneen

  • Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucureşti, Romania

    Gheorghe Păun

  • Leiden Center of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

  • Dept. of Computer Science, University of York,  

    Susan Stepney

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