Theory and Practice of Natural Computing

1. Information Processing in Nature

   1. Morphogenesis Model for Systematic Simulation of Forms’ Co-evolution with Constraints: Application to Mitosis

      • Abdoulaye Sarr, Alexandra Fronville, Vincent Rodin

      Pages 231-242

   2. The Power of Extra Analog Neuron

      • Jiří Šíma

      Pages 243-254

   3. Model Predictive Control of Linear Parameter Varying Systems Based on a Recurrent Neural Network

      • Zheng Yan, Xinyi Le, Jun Wang

      Pages 255-266

2. Back Matter

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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.

• algorithms
• amorphous computing
• artificial immune systems
• bioinformatics
• cellular automata
• chaos and dynamical systems based computing
• cryptography
• economics
• evolutionary computing
• fractal geometry
• learning
• membrane computing
• nanocomputing
• neural computing
• optical computing
• optimization
• pattern recognition
• programming
• quantum computing and quantum information
• swarm intelligence

• Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC), Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain

  Adrian-Horia Dediu, Carlos Martín-Vide

• E.T.S. de Ingenierías Informática y de Telecomunicación, DECSAI, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

  Manuel Lozano

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