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Theory and Practice of Natural Computing

7th International Conference, TPNC 2018, Dublin, Ireland, December 12–14, 2018, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 11324)

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

Conference series link(s): TPNC: International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing

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Table of contents (36 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Invited Talk

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Explainable AI and Fuzzy Logic Systems

      • Ravikiran Chimatapu, Hani Hagras, Andrew Starkey, Gilbert Owusu
      Pages 3-20
  3. Applications of Natural Computing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. Computing Preimages and Ancestors in Reaction Systems

      • Roberto Barbuti, Anna Bernasconi, Roberta Gori, Paolo Milazzo
      Pages 23-35
    3. Self-organised Aggregation in Swarms of Robots with Informed Robots

      • Ziya Firat, Eliseo Ferrante, Nicolas Cambier, Elio Tuci
      Pages 49-60
    4. Multi-party Computation Based on Physical Coins

      • Yuichi Komano, Takaaki Mizuki
      Pages 87-98
    5. Graph Minors from Simulated Annealing for Annealing Machines with Sparse Connectivity

      • Yuya Sugie, Yuki Yoshida, Normann Mertig, Takashi Takemoto, Hiroshi Teramoto, Atsuyoshi Nakamura et al.
      Pages 111-123
    6. Gaussian-kernel c-means Clustering Algorithms

      • Miin-Shen Yang, Shou-Jen Chang-Chien, Yessica Nataliani
      Pages 124-135
  4. Evolutionary Computation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. The Design of (Almost) Disjunct Matrices by Evolutionary Algorithms

      • Karlo Knezevic, Stjepan Picek, Luca Mariot, Domagoj Jakobovic, Alberto Leporati
      Pages 152-163
    3. How the “Baldwin Effect” Can Guide Evolution in Dynamic Environments

      • Nam Le, Anthony Brabazon, Michael O’Neill
      Pages 164-175

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2017, held in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2018. The 35 full papers presented in this book, together with one invited talk, were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topical sections: applications of natural computing as algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economics. The more theoretical contributions handle with artificial chemistry, artificial immune systems, artificial life, cellular automata, cognitive computing, cognitive engineering, cognitive robotics, collective behaviour, complex systems, computational intelligence, computational social science, computing with words, developmental systems, DNA computing, DNA nanotechnology, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary computing, evolutionary game theory, fractal geometry, fuzzy control, fuzzy logic, fuzzy sets,fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, granular computing, heuristics, intelligent agents, intelligent systems, machine intelligence, molecular programming, neural computing, neural networks, quantum communication, quantum computing, rough sets, self-assembly.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Business, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    David Fagan, Michael O'Neill

  • Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain

    Carlos Martín-Vide

  • Escuela Politécnica, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain

    Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez

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