Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation: 17th International Conference, UCNC 2018, Fontainebleau, France, June 25-29, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 10867)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2018, held in Fontainebleau, France, in June 2018. The 15 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The paper cover topics such as hypercomputation; chaos and dynamical systems based computing; granular, fuzzy and rough computing; mechanical computing; cellular, evolutionary, molecular, neural, and quantum computing; membrane computing; amorphous computing, swarm intelligence; artificial immune systems; physics of computation; chemical computation; evolving hardware; the computational nature of self-assembly, developmental processes, bacterial communication, and brain processes. Front Matter ....Pages I-XVIII P Systems with Activation and Blocking of Rules (Artiom Alhazov, Rudolf Freund, Sergiu Ivanov)....Pages 1-15 Thermodynamically Favorable Computation via Tile Self-assembly (Cameron Chalk, Jacob Hendricks, Matthew J. Patitz, Michael Sharp)....Pages 16-31 Optimal Staged Self-assembly of Linear Assemblies (Cameron Chalk, Eric Martinez, Robert Schweller, Luis Vega, Andrew Winslow, Tim Wylie)....Pages 32-45 The Scope of a Relativistic Quantum Process with Spin-Momentum Entanglement (Tanner Crowder, Marco Lanzagorta)....Pages 46-58 Mechanical Sequential Counting with Liquid Marbles (Thomas C. Draper, Claire Fullarton, Neil Phillips, Ben P. J. de Lacy Costello, Andrew Adamatzky)....Pages 59-71 Word Blending in Formal Languages: The Brangelina Effect (Srujan Kumar Enaganti, Lila Kari, Timothy Ng, Zihao Wang)....Pages 72-85 Computational Completeness of Simple Semi-conditional Insertion-Deletion Systems (Henning Fernau, Lakshmanan Kuppusamy, Indhumathi Raman)....Pages 86-100 An FPGA Implementation of a Distributed Virtual Machine (Lee A. Jensen, Lance R. Williams)....Pages 101-116 Algorithms for Inferring Context-Sensitive L-Systems (Ian McQuillan, Jason Bernard, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz)....Pages 117-130 Reaction Mining for Reaction Systems (Artur Męski, Maciej Koutny, Wojciech Penczek)....Pages 131-144 Analyzing Execution Time of Card-Based Protocols (Daiki Miyahara, Itaru Ueda, Yu-ichi Hayashi, Takaaki Mizuki, Hideaki Sone)....Pages 145-158 Algorithmic Design of Cotranscriptionally Folding 2D RNA Origami Structures (Abdulmelik Mohammed, Pekka Orponen, Sachith Pai)....Pages 159-172 Deterministic Sensing \(5'\rightarrow 3'\) Watson-Crick Automata Without Sensing Parameter (Shaghayegh Parchami, Benedek Nagy)....Pages 173-187 Collaborative Computation in Self-organizing Particle Systems (Alexandra Porter, Andrea Richa)....Pages 188-203 Phase Transitions in Swarm Optimization Algorithms (Tomáš Vantuch, Ivan Zelinka, Andrew Adamatzky, Norbert Marwan)....Pages 204-216 Back Matter ....Pages 217-217