Natural Computing, Volume 6

Volume 6, Number 1, March 2007

Special Issue: Natural and Artificial Immune Systems

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  Jon Timmis:
  Artificial immune systems - today and tomorrow. 1-18
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  Stefania Bandini, Franco Celada, Sara Manzoni, Giuseppe Vizzari:
  Modelling the immune system: the case of situated cellular agents. 19-32
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  Bruno Apolloni, Simone Bassis, Alberto Clivio, Sabrina Gaito, Dario Malchiodi:
  Modeling individual's aging within a bacterial population using a pi-calculus paradigm. 33-53
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  Angelo Marcello Anile, Vincenzo Cutello, Giuseppe Narzisi, Giuseppe Nicosia, Salvatore Spinella:
  Determination of protein structure and dynamics combining immune algorithms and pattern search methods. 55-72

Volume 6, Number 2, June 2007

Natural Processes and Models of Computation

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  Cristian S. Calude, Rossella Lupacchini, Giorgio Sandri:
  Preface. 73-74
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  Jozef Gruska:
  A broader view on the limitations of information processing and communication by nature. 75-112
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  Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Roberto Giuntini, Roberto Leporini:
  Compositional and holistic quantum computational semantics. 113-132
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  Fabio Benatti:
  Entropy and algorithmic complexity in quantum information theory. 133-150
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  Annalisa Marzuoli, Mario Rasetti:
  Coupling of quantum angular momenta: an insight into analogic/discrete and local/global models of computation. 151-168
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  Emilio Kropff, Alessandro Treves:
  The complexity of latching transitions in large scale cortical networks. 169-185
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  Wilfried Sieg:
  On mind & Turing's machines. 187-205

Volume 6, Number 3, September 2007

Mechanisms and formal tools in neural modeling

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  José Mira Mira:
  Preface. 207-209
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  José Mira Mira, Ana E. Delgado García:
  On how the computational paradigm can help us to model and interpret the neural function. 211-240
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  Tino Lourens, Emilia I. Barakova:
  Orientation contrast sensitive cells in primate V1 a computational model. 241-252
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  Juan Navarro, Eduardo Sánchez Vila, Antonio Canedo:
  Information coding in early stages of the somatosensory system. 253-267
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  Alexey N. Pavlov, Valeri A. Makarov, Ioulia Makarova, Fivos Panetsos:
  Sorting of neural spikes: When wavelet based methods outperform principal component analysis. 269-281
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  Elvira Di Nardo, Amelia G. Nobile, Enrica Pirozzi, Luigi M. Ricciardi:
  Gaussian processes and neuronal modeling. 283-310
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  Arndt von Twickel, Frank Pasemann:
  Reflex-oscillations in evolved single leg neurocontrollers for walking machines. 311-337
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  Vincent Danos, Fabien Tarissan:
  Self-assembling graphs. 339-358

Volume 6, Number 4, December 2007

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  Bei Wang, Dimitris Papamichail, Steffen Mueller, Steven Skiena:
  Two proteins for the price of one: the design of maximally compressed coding sequences. 359-370
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  Michael Domaratzki:
  Bond-free DNA language classes. 371-402
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  Marc Blenkiron, D. K. Arvind, Jamie A. Davies:
  Design of an irreversible DNA memory element. 403-411
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  Jungwon Kim, Peter J. Bentley, Uwe Aickelin, Julie Greensmith, Gianni Tedesco, Jamie Twycross:
  Immune system approaches to intrusion detection - a review. 413-466
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  Alec Banks, Jonathan Vincent, Chukwudi Anyakoha:
  A review of particle swarm optimization. Part I: background and development. 467-484