Natural Computing and Beyond : Winter School Hakodate 2011, Hakodate, Japan, March 2011 and 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing, Tokyo, Japan, March 2012, Proceedings

This book contains the joint proceedings of the Winter School of Hakodate (WSH) 2011 held in Hakodate, Japan, March 15–16, 2011, and the 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing (6th IWNC) held in Tokyo, Japan, March 28–30, 2012, organized by the Special Interest Group of Natural Computing (SIG-NAC), the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). This volume compiles refereed contributions to various aspects of natural computing, ranging from computing with slime mold, artificial chemistry, eco-physics, and synthetic biology, to computational aesthetics. Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Ethological Response to Periodic Stimulation in Chara and Blepharisma ....Pages 3-13 Adaptive Path-Finding and Transport Network Formation by the Amoeba-Like Organism Physarum ....Pages 14-29 Aggregate “Calculation” in Economic Phenomena: Distributions and Fluctuations....Pages 30-38 Towards Co-evolution of Information, Life and Artificial Life....Pages 39-48 Harness the Nature for Computation....Pages 49-70 Things Theory of Art Should Learn from Natural Computing....Pages 71-81 Study on the Use of Evolutionary Techniques for Inference in Gene Regulatory Networks....Pages 82-92 Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Networks from Gene Expression Data Using Decoupled Recurrent Neural Network Model....Pages 93-103 Design and Control of Synthetic Biological Systems....Pages 104-114 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 Preface: Natural Computing and Computational Aesthetics....Pages 117-118 The Significance of Natural Computing for Considering Computational Aesthetics of Nature....Pages 119-129 Perceiving the Gap: Asynchronous Coordination of Plural Algorithms and Disconnected Logical Types in Ambient Space....Pages 130-147 Aesthetic Aspects of Technology-Mediated Self-awareness Experiences....Pages 148-153 Back Matter....Pages - Natural Computing Ethological response to periodic stimulation in Chara and Brepharisma Adaptive path-finding and transport network formation by the amoeba-like organism Physarum Aggregate "Calculation" in Economic Phenomena: Distributions and Fluctuations Towards Co-evolution of Information, Life and Artifcial Life Harness the Nature for Computation Things Theory of Art Should Learn From Natural Computing Study on the use of Evolutionary Techniques for inference in Gene Regulatory Networks Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Networks from Gene Expression Data using Decoupled Recurrent Neural Network Model Design and control of synthetic biological systems Satellite Symposium on Computational Aesthetics Preface–Natural Computing and Computational Aesthetics The Significance of Natural Computing for Considering Computational Aesthetics of Nature Perceiving the Gap: asynchronous coordination of plural algorithms and disconnected logical types in ambient space Aesthetic Aspects of Technology-mediated Self-awareness Experiences.