Natural Computing

Invited Talks.- Investigating Universal Computability of Conventional Cellular Automata Problems on an Organic Molecular Matrix.- Noise-Based Logic and Computing: From Boolean Logic Gates to Brain Circuitry and Its Possible Hardware Realization.- Models and Mechanisms for Artificial Morphogenesis.- Biologically-Inspired Network Architecture for Future Networks.- Foraging Behaviors and Potential Computational Ability of Problem-Solving in an Amoeba.- Two Molecular Information Processing Systems Based on Catalytic Nucleic Acids.- Invited Papers.- The Effect of Community on Distributed Bio-inspired Service Composition.- Efficient Computation in Brownian Cellular Automata.- A Molecular Communication System.- Properties of Threshold Coupled Chaotic Neuronal Maps.- Contributed Papers.- Implementation of Rotary Element with Quantum Cellular Automata.- Universal 2-State Asynchronous Cellular Automaton with Inner-Independent Transitions.- Effect of Population Size in Extended Parameter-Free Genetic Algorithm.- Temperature Effects on Olive Fruit Fly Infestation in the FlySim Cellular Automata Model.- Computing by Observing Changes.- Robustness of the Critical Behaviour in a Discrete Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Medium.- Quantifying the Severity of the Permutation Problem in Neuroevolution.- Extending the Geometrical Design of DNA Nanostructures.- An Optical Solution for the Subset Sum Problem.- Design of True Random One-Time Pads in DNA XOR Cryptosystem.- On Designing Gliders in Three-Dimensional Larger than Life Cellular Automata.- Instability of Collective Flow in Two-Dimensional Optimal Velocity Model.- A New Differential Evolution for Multiobjective Optimization by Uniform Design and Minimum Reduce Hypervolume.- Noise Effects on Chaos in Chaotic Neuron Model.- Applicationof Improved Grammatical Evolution to Santa Fe Trail Problems.- Limit Theorem for a Time-Dependent Coined Quantum Walk on the Line.- Top-Predator Survivor Region Is Affected by Bottom-Prey Mortality Rate on the Monte-Carlo Simulation in Lattice Model.- Simulation and Theoretical Comparison between "Zipper" and "Non-Zipper" Merging.- Universality of 2-State 3-Symbol Reversible Logic Elements - A Direct Simulation Method of a Rotary Element.- Pump Current as a Signal Transformation.- Evaluation of Generation Alternation Models in Evolutionary Robotics.- Photonic Switching of DNA's Position That Represents the Internal State in Photonic DNA Automaton.- Fluctuation Induced Structure in Chemical Reaction with Small Number of Molecules.- Parallel Retrieval of Nanometer-Scale Light-Matter Interactions for Nanophotonic Systems.- A Compressible Fluid Model for Traffic Flow and Nonlinear Saturation of Perturbation Growth.- Functional Sized Population Magnetic Optimization Algorithm.- Emergence and Collapse of Order in Ad Hoc Cellular Automata.- A Transition Rule Set for the First 2-D Optimum-Time Synchronization Algorithm.- A Two-Dimensional Optimum-Time Firing Squad Synchronization Algorithm and Its Implementation.- Quaternion Based Thermal Condition Monitoring System.- Firing Correlation in Spiking Neurons with Watts-Strogatz Rewiring.- Methods for Shortening Waiting Time in Walking-Distance Introduced Queueing Systems.- Effect of Mutation to Distribution of Optimum Solution in Genetic Algorithm.