Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems : 7th International ICST Conference, BIONETICS 2012, Lugano, Switzerland, December 10--11, 2012, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (Bionetics 2012), held in Lugano, Switzerland, in December 2012. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They cover topics such as networking, robotics and neural networks, molecular scale and bioinformatics, optimization, and bio-inspired modeling in various fields Front Matter....Pages I-XI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 A Hybrid Exact-ACO Algorithm for the Joint Scheduling, Power and Cluster Assignment in Cooperative Wireless Networks....Pages 3-17 Proposal and Evaluation of Attractor Perturbation-Based Rate Control for Stable End-to-End Delay....Pages 18-32 The Reactive ASR-FA – An Ant Routing Algorithm That Detects Changes in the Network by Employing Statistical Delay Models....Pages 33-48 A Mathematical Model for the Analysis of the Johnson-Nyquist Thermal Noise on the Reliability in Nano-Communications....Pages 49-59 Front Matter....Pages 61-61 Visuomotor Mapping Based on Hering’s Law for a Redundant Active Stereo Head and a 3 DOF Arm....Pages 63-74 A Distributed Multi-level PSO Control Algorithm for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles....Pages 75-90 A Novel Communication Technique for Nanobots Based on Acoustic Signals....Pages 91-104 What Could Assistance Robots Learn from Assistance Dogs?....Pages 105-119 Bioinspired Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms for Robot Swarms....Pages 120-134 Evolving Networks Processing Signals with a Mixed Paradigm, Inspired by Gene Regulatory Networks and Spiking Neurons....Pages 135-149 Algorithmically Transitive Network: Learning Padé Networks for Regression....Pages 150-166 Front Matter....Pages 167-167 Investigation of Developmental Mechanisms in Common Developmental Genomes....Pages 169-183 Improving Diffusion-Based Molecular Communication with Unanchored Enzymes....Pages 184-198 The Use of Computational Intelligence in the Design of Polymers and in Property Prediction....Pages 199-207 A Watermarking Scheme for Coding DNA Sequences Using Codon Circular Code....Pages 208-219 Front Matter....Pages 221-221 Ant Local Search for Combinatorial Optimization....Pages 223-236 An Enhanced Ant Colony System for the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem....Pages 237-249 Exploiting Synergies Between Exact and Heuristic Methods in Optimization: An Application to the Relay Placement Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 250-265 Front Matter....Pages 267-267 Extracting Communities from Citation Networks of Patents: Application of the Brain-Inspired Mechanism of Information Retrieval....Pages 269-282 Modeling Epidemic Risk Perception in Networks with Community Structure....Pages 283-295 Front Matter....Pages 267-267 Simulating Language Dynamics by Means of Concept Reasoning....Pages 296-311 Rigorous Punishment Promotes Cooperation in Prisoners’ Dilemma Game....Pages 312-321 Back Matter....Pages 323-323