Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2015, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in August/September 2015. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including among others molecular (DNA) computing; quantum computing; optical computing; chaos computing; physarum computing; computation in hyperbolic spaces; collision-based computing; cellular automata; neural computation; evolutionary computation; swarm intelligence; nature-inspired algorithms; artificial immune systems; artificial life; membrane computing; amorphous computing; computational systems biology; genetic networks; protein-protein networks; transport networks; synthetic biology; cellular (in vivo) computing; and computations beyond the Turing model and philosophical aspects of computing.

The Unconventionality of Nature: Biology, from Noise to Functional Randomness. - Ultrametric Algorithms and Automata. - Realism and Texture: Benchmark Problems for Natural Computation. - Quantum Computing Meets the Real World. - BL: A Visual Computing Framework for Interactive Neural System. Models of Embodied Cognition and Face to Face Social Learning. - Computations with Grossone-based Infinities. - Exploring the Effect of Cell Heterogeneity in Wound Healing Using a 3D Multicellular Tissue Growth Model. - Regularized Linear and Nonlinear Autoregressive Models for Dengue Confirmed-Cases Prediction. - Asynchronous Spiking Neural P Systems with Structural Plasticity. - Expressive Power of Non-Deterministic Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks in Terms of their Attractor Dynamics. - Duplications and Pseudo-Duplications. - Going Beyond Turing with P Automata. - DiSCUS: A Simulation Platform for Conjugation Computing. - A Cost / Speed / Reliability Trade-Off to Erasing. - Replication of Arbitrary Hole-free Shapes via Self-assembly with Signal-passing Tiles. - Efficient Card-based Protocols for Generating a Hidden Random Permutation without Fixed Points. - Simulation of the 2JLP Gene Assembly Process in Ciliates. - A Uniform Family of Tissue P Systems with Protein on Cells Solving 3-Coloring in Linear Time. - Asynchronous Dynamics of Boolean Automata Double-Cycles. - Non-cooperative Algorithms in Self-assembly. - Tangle Machines. - Formalisation vs Understanding; A Case Study in Isabelle.