Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation: 13th International Conference, UCNC 2014, London, ON, Canada, July 14-18, 2014, Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages 1-24
Five Nodes Are Sufficient for Hybrid Networks of Evolutionary Processors to Be Computationally Complete....Pages 1-13
Learning Two-Input Linear and Nonlinear Analog Functions with a Simple Chemical System....Pages 14-26
Scaled Tree Fractals Do not Strictly Self-assemble....Pages 27-39
GUBS a Language for Synthetic Biology: Specification and Compilation....Pages 40-53
Modeling Syntactic Complexity with P Systems: A Preview....Pages 54-66
Simulating Cancer Growth Using Cellular Automata to Detect Combination Drug Targets....Pages 67-79
Towards an MP Model for B Lymphocytes Maturation....Pages 80-92
Pseudo-inversion on Formal Languages....Pages 93-104
Reverse-Engineering Nonlinear Analog Circuits with Evolutionary Computation....Pages 105-116
Steps toward Developing an Artificial Cell Signaling Model Applied to Distributed Fault Detection....Pages 117-128
Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Array....Pages 129-141
Producibility in Hierarchical Self-assembly....Pages 142-154
Unconventional Arithmetic: A System for Computation Using Action Potentials....Pages 155-163
Reservoir Computing Approach to Robust Computation Using Unreliable Nanoscale Networks....Pages 164-176
On DNA-Based Gellular Automata....Pages 177-189
Doubles and Negatives are Positive (in Self-assembly)....Pages 190-202
On String Languages Generated by Sequential Spiking Neural P Systems Based on Maximum Spike Number....Pages 203-215
Languages Associated with Crystallographic Symmetry....Pages 216-228
An Energy-Efficient Computing Approach by Filling the Connectome Gap....Pages 229-241
Fast Arithmetic in Algorithmic Self-assembly....Pages 242-253
Pattern Formation by Spatially Organized Approximate Majority Reactions....Pages 254-266
Mecobo: A Hardware and Software Platform for In Materio Evolution....Pages 267-279
Compact Realization of Reversible Turing Machines by 2-State Reversible Logic Elements....Pages 280-292
Universal Computation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game....Pages 293-304
Exact Simulation of One-Dimensional Chaotic Dynamical Systems Using Algebraic Numbers....Pages 305-315
Artificial Astrocyte Networks, as Components in Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 316-326
Quantum, Stochastic, and Pseudo Stochastic Languages with Few States....Pages 327-339
Phase Transition and Strong Predictability....Pages 340-352
PHLOGON: PHase-based LOGic using Oscillatory Nano-systems....Pages 353-366
Size-Separable Tile Self-assembly: A Tight Bound for Temperature-1 Mismatch-Free Systems....Pages 367-378
Development of Physical Super-Turing Analog Hardware....Pages 379-391
Back Matter....Pages 393-394