Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation: 14th International Conference, UCNC 2015, Auckland, New Zealand, August 30 -- September 3, 2015, Proceedings ... Notes in Computer Science Book 9252)

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. Front Matter....Pages I-X Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Unconventionality of Nature: Biology, from Noise to Functional Randomness....Pages 3-34 Ultrametric Algorithms and Automata....Pages 35-52 Realism and Texture: Benchmark Problems for Natural Computation....Pages 53-65 Quantum Computing Meets the Real World....Pages 66-70 BL: A Visual Computing Framework for Interactive Neural System Models of Embodied Cognition and Face to Face Social Learning....Pages 71-88 Computations with Grossone-Based Infinities....Pages 89-106 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Exploring the Effect of Cell Heterogeneity in Wound Healing Using a 3D Multicellular Tissue Growth Model....Pages 109-120 Regularized Linear and Nonlinear Autoregressive Models for Dengue Confirmed-Cases Prediction....Pages 121-131 Asynchronous Spiking Neural P Systems with Structural Plasticity....Pages 132-143 Expressive Power of Non-deterministic Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks in Terms of Their Attractor Dynamics....Pages 144-156 Duplications and Pseudo-Duplications....Pages 157-168 DiSCUS: A Simulation Platform for Conjugation Computing....Pages 169-180 A Cost/Speed/Reliability Tradeoff to Erasing....Pages 181-191 Replication of Arbitrary Hole-Free Shapes via Self-assembly with Signal-Passing Tiles....Pages 192-201 Efficient Card-Based Protocols for Generating a Hidden Random Permutation Without Fixed Points....Pages 202-214 Simulation of the 2JLP Gene Assembly Process in Ciliates....Pages 215-226 A Uniform Family of Tissue P Systems with Protein on Cells Solving 3-Coloring in Linear Time....Pages 227-238 Asynchronous Dynamics of Boolean Automata Double-Cycles....Pages 239-249 Non-cooperative Algorithms in Self-assembly....Pages 250-262 Front Matter....Pages 263-276 Tangle Machines....Pages 107-107 Formalisation vs. Understanding....Pages 277-289 Back Matter....Pages 290-300 ....Pages 301-301