Theory and Practice of Natural Computing: Fourth International Conference, TPNC 2015, Mieres, Spain, December 15-16, 2015. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 9477)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2015, held in Mieres, Spain, in December 2015. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 20 invited talks in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The scope of TPNC is rather broad, containing topics of either theoretical, experimental or applied interest such as soft computing, computing architectures, and formal models. Front Matter....Pages I-XIV Front Matter....Pages 1-1 EvoSphere: The World of Robot Evolution....Pages 3-19 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 A Content-Based Recommendation Approach Using Semantic User Profile in E-recruitment....Pages 23-32 A Genetic Algorithm for Evolving Plateaued Cryptographic Boolean Functions....Pages 33-45 Hierarchical Clustering of DNA Microarray Data Using a Hybrid of Bacterial Foraging and Differential Evolution....Pages 46-57 Fault Classification of a Centrifugal Pump in Normal and Noisy Environment with Artificial Neural Network and Support Vector Machine Enhanced by a Genetic Algorithm....Pages 58-70 Evolutionary Approach for Finding Correlation Immune Boolean Functions of Order t with Minimal Hamming Weight....Pages 71-82 Generation of Linguistic Advices for Saving Energy: Architecture....Pages 83-94 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 A Model for the Emergence of Coded Life....Pages 97-108 Five-Card Secure Computations Using Unequal Division Shuffle....Pages 109-120 Straight Construction of Non-Interactive Quantum Bit Commitment Schemes from Indistinguishable Quantum State Ensembles....Pages 121-133 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 Discrete Geodesics and Cellular Automata....Pages 137-149 A Quantitative Approach for Detecting Symmetries and Complexity in 2D Plane....Pages 150-160 A Generalized Minimum-Time Minimum-State-Change FSSP Algorithm....Pages 161-173 Back Matter....Pages 175-175 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference, TPNC 2014, held in Granada, Spain, in December 2014. The 22 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on nature-inspired models of computation; synthesizing nature by means of computation; nature-inspired materials; and information processing in nature.