Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation: 15th International Conference, UCNC 2016, Manchester, UK, July 11-15, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 9726)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2016, held in Manchester, UK, in July 2016. The 15 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including molecular, cellular, quantum, optical and chaos computing; cellular automata; neural and evolutionary computation; artificial immune systems; Ant algorithms and swarm intelligence; amorphous computing; membrane computing; computational systems biology and computational neuroscience; and synthetic biology. Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII Reachability Problems for Continuous Chemical Reaction Networks....Pages 1-10 An All-Optical Soliton FFT Computational Arrangement in the 3NLSE-Domain....Pages 11-24 Babbage Meets Zuse: A Minimal Mechanical Computer....Pages 25-34 Generative Power of Matrix Insertion-Deletion Systems with Context-Free Insertion or Deletion....Pages 35-48 Evolving Carbon Nanotube Reservoir Computers....Pages 49-61 Global Network Cooperation Catalysed by a Small Prosocial Migrant Clique....Pages 62-74 Model-Based Computation....Pages 75-86 In Vitro Implementation of a Stack Data Structure Based on DNA Strand Displacement....Pages 87-98 Analysis of Boolean Logic Gates Logical Complexity for Use with Spiking Memristor Gates....Pages 99-115 Language Recognition Power and Succinctness of Affine Automata....Pages 116-129 Training a Carbon-Nanotube/Liquid Crystal Data Classifier Using Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 130-141 Towards Quantitative Verification of Reaction Systems....Pages 142-154 Traversal Languages Capturing Isomorphism Classes of Sierpiński Gaskets....Pages 155-167 Discrete DNA Reaction-Diffusion Model for Implementing Simple Cellular Automaton....Pages 168-181 Universal Totalistic Asynchonous Cellular Automaton and Its Possible Implementation by DNA....Pages 182-195 Back Matter....Pages 197-197