Natural Computing, Volume 17

Volume 17, Number 1, March 2018

Part 1: Special Issue: DNA Computing and Molecular Programming 2016

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  Damien Woods, Yannick Rondelez:
  Preface. 1-2
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  Thomas E. Ouldridge:
  The importance of thermodynamics for molecular systems, and the importance of molecular systems for thermodynamics. 3-29
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  Matthew J. Patitz, Robert T. Schweller, Trent A. Rogers, Scott M. Summers, Andrew Winslow:
  Resiliency to multiple nucleation in temperature-1 self-assembly. 31-46
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  Jacob Hendricks, Meagan Olsen, Matthew J. Patitz, Trent A. Rogers, Hadley Thomas:
  Hierarchical self-assembly of fractals with signal-passing tiles. 47-65
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  Yo-Sub Han, Hwee Kim, Makoto Ota, Shinnosuke Seki:
  Nondeterministic seedless oritatami systems and hardness of testing their equivalence. 67-79
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  Joshua J. Daymude, Zahra Derakhshandeh, Robert Gmyr, Alexandra M. Porter, Andréa W. Richa, Christian Scheideler, Thim Strothmann:
  On the runtime of universal coating for programmable matter. 81-96
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  Robert Brijder, David Doty, David Soloveichik:
  Democratic, existential, and consensus-based output conventions in stable computation by chemical reaction networks. 97-108
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  Luca Cardelli, Marta Kwiatkowska, Max Whitby:
  Chemical reaction network designs for asynchronous logic circuits. 109-130
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  Luca Cardelli, Marta Kwiatkowska, Luca Laurenti:
  Programming discrete distributions with chemical reaction networks. 131-145
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  Pekka Orponen:
  Design methods for 3D wireframe DNA nanostructures. 147-160
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  David R. Gilbert, Monika Heiner, Christian Rohr:
  Petri-net-based 2D design of DNA walker circuits. 161-182
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  Vahid Mardanlou, Kimia C. Yaghoubi, Leopold N. Green, Hari K. K. Subramanian, Rizal F. Hariadi, Jongmin Kim, Elisa Franco:
  A coarse-grained model captures the temporal evolution of DNA nanotube length distributions. 183-199
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  Mika Hirvensalo:
  Interference as a computational resource: a tutorial. 201-219

Volume 17, Number 2, June 2018

Part1: Special Issue: Unconventional Computing and Natural Computing 2016 - Selected Papers from 2016 Conference/Special Issue: Contributions to Membrane Computing.

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  Martyn Amos, Anne Condon:
  Preface. 221-222
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  Adam Case, Jack H. Lutz, Donald M. Stull:
  Reachability problems for continuous chemical reaction networks. 223-230
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  Anastasios G. Bakaoukas:
  An all-optical soliton FFT computational arrangement in the 3NLSE-domain. 231-248
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  Henning Fernau, Lakshmanan Kuppusamy, Indhumathi Raman:
  Investigations on the power of matrix insertion-deletion systems with small sizes. 249-269
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  Cameron Beebe:
  Model-based computation. 271-281
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  Marcos Villagra, Abuzer Yakaryilmaz:
  Language recognition power and succinctness of affine automata. 283-293
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  Michael J. Dinneen, Ulrich Speidel:
  Preface. 295
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  Artiom Alhazov, Rudolf Freund, Sergiu Ivanov, Marion Oswald, Sergey Verlan:
  Extended spiking neural P systems with white hole rules and their red-green variants. 297-310
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  Hepzibah A. Christinal, Daniel Díaz-Pernil, T. Mathu:
  A uniform family of tissue P systems with protein on cells solving 3-coloring in linear time. 311-319
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  Ludek Cienciala, Lucie Ciencialová:
  Some new results of P colonies with bounded parameters. 321-332
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  Richelle Ann B. Juayong, Henry N. Adorna:
  On simulating cooperative transition P systems in evolution-communication P systems with energy. 333-343
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  Andrea Bernini, Linda Brodo, Pierpaolo Degano, Moreno Falaschi, Diana Hermith:
  Process calculi for biological processes. 345-373
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  Ronghua Shang, Bingqi Du, Kaiyun Dai, Licheng Jiao, Yu Xue:
  Memetic algorithm based on extension step and statistical filtering for large-scale capacitated arc routing problems. 375-391
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  Mathilde Noual, Sylvain Sené:
  Synchronism versus asynchronism in monotonic Boolean automata networks. 393-402
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  Sergio Miguel Tomé:
  The influence of computational traits on the natural selection of the nervous system. 403-425
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  Eric Goles, Luis Gómez:
  Combinatorial game associated to the one dimensional Schelling's model of social segregation. 427-436
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  Hannes Klarner, Alexander Bockmayr, Heike Siebert:
  Erratum to: Computing maximal and minimal trap spaces of Boolean networks. 437

Volume 17, Number 3, September 2018

Part 1: Special Issue: Cellular Automata for Research and Industry 2018 - Selected papers from 2016 Conference

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  Stefania Bandini, Samira El Yacoubi, Giancarlo Mauri, Jaroslaw Was:
  Preface. 439-440
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  Hiroshi Umeo, Keisuke Imai, Akihiro Sousa:
  A design of generalized minimum-state-change FSSP algorithms and their implementations. 441-453
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  Antonios Dimitriadis, Martin Kutrib, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis:
  Revisiting the cutting of the firing squad synchronization. 455-465
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  Marcin Dembowski, Barbara Wolnik, Witold Bolt, Jan M. Baetens, Bernard De Baets:
  Affine continuous cellular automata solving the fixed-length density classification problem. 467-477
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  Franco Bagnoli, Samira El Yacoubi, Raúl Rechtman:
  Toward a boundary regional control problem for Boolean cellular automata. 479-486
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  Luca Mariot, Alberto Leporati:
  A cryptographic and coding-theoretic perspective on the global rules of cellular automata. 487-498
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  Teijiro Isokawa, Ferdinand Peper, Koji Ono, Nobuyuki Matsui:
  A universal Brownian cellular automaton with 3 states and 2 rules. 499-509
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  Aziza Merzouki, Orestis Malaspinas, Anastasiya Trushko, Aurélien Roux, Bastien Chopard:
  Influence of cell mechanics and proliferation on the buckling of simulated tissues using a vertex model. 511-519
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  Leonardo Rundo, Carmelo Militello, Giorgio Russo, Salvatore Vitabile, Maria Carla Gilardi, Giancarlo Mauri:
  GTVcut for neuro-radiosurgery treatment planning: an MRI brain cancer seeded image segmentation method based on a cellular automata model. 521-536
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  Guillaume Schlotterbeck, Clément Raïevsky, Laurent Lefèvre:
  Decentralized estimation of forest fire spread using reactive and cognitive mobile sensors. 537-551
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  Valeria Lupiano, Guillermo E. Machado, Lorena P. Molina, Gino Mirocle Crisci, Salvatore Di Gregorio:
  Simulations of flow-like landslides invading urban areas: a cellular automata approach with SCIDDICA. 553-568
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  A. Seghir, Olivier Marcou, Samira El Yacoubi:
  Shoreline evolution: GIS, remote sensing and cellular automata modelling. 569-583
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  Michael T. M. Emmerich, André H. Deutz:
  A tutorial on multiobjective optimization: fundamentals and evolutionary methods. 585-609
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  Hongguang Zhang, Yuanan Liu, Jie Zhou:
  Balanced-evolution genetic algorithm for combinatorial optimization problems: the general outline and implementation of balanced-evolution strategy based on linear diversity index. 611-639
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  Chun-Feng Wang, Kui Liu:
  An improved particle swarm optimization algorithm based on comparative judgment. 641-661
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  Marco Montalva-Medel, Pedro Paulo Balbi de Oliveira, Eric Goles:
  A portfolio of classification problems by one-dimensional cellular automata, over cyclic binary configurations and parallel update. 663-671
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  Lijing Tan, Hong Wang, Chen Yang, Ben Niu:
  Erratum to: A multi-objective optimization method based on discrete bacterial algorithm for environmental/economic power dispatch. 673

Volume 17, Number 4, December 2018

Part 1: Special Issue: DNA Computing and Molecular Programming 2017 - Selected papers from 2017 Conference/Special Issue: A Natural Computing Approach to Synthetic and Systems Biology

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  Robert Brijder, Lulu Qian:
  Preface. 675-676
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  David Doty, Shaopeng Zhu:
  Computational complexity of atomic chemical reaction networks. 677-691
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  Bjarke N. Hansen, Kim S. Larsen, Daniel Merkle, Alexei Mihalchuk:
  DNA-templated synthesis optimization. 693-707
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  Matthew R. Lakin, Andrew Phillips:
  Automated analysis of tethered DNA nanostructures using constraint solving. 709-722
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  Marta Andrés Arroyo, Sarah Cannon, Joshua J. Daymude, Dana Randall, Andréa W. Richa:
  A stochastic approach to shortcut bridging in programmable matter. 723-741
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  Yen-Ru Chin, Jui-Ting Tsai, Ho-Lin Chen:
  A minimal requirement for self-assembly of lines in polylogarithmic time. 743-757
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  Matteo Cavaliere, Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón:
  Preface. 759
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  Neil Dalchau, Gregory Szép, Rosa D. Hernansaiz-Ballesteros, Chris P. Barnes, Luca Cardelli, Andrew Phillips, Attila Csikász-Nagy:
  Computing with biological switches and clocks. 761-779
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  Danilo Souza da Cunha, Rafael Silveira Xavier, Leandro Nunes de Castro:
  Bacterial colonies as complex adaptive systems. 781-798
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  Henning Bordihn, Victor Mitrana, Maria C. Negru, Andrei Paun, Mihaela Paun:
  Small networks of polarized splicing processors are universal. 799-809
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  Maia Baskerville, Arielle Biro, Mike Blazanin, Chang-Yu Chang, Amelia Hallworth, Nicole Sonnert, Jean C. C. Vila, Alvaro Sanchez:
  Ecological effects of cellular computing in microbial populations. 811-822
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  Bogdan Aman, Gabriel Ciobanu:
  Bonding calculus. 823-832
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  Yiyu Xiang, Neil Dalchau, Baojun Wang:
  Scaling up genetic circuit design for cellular computing: advances and prospects. 833-853
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  Andrzej Skowron, Soma Dutta:
  Rough sets: past, present, and future. 855-876
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  Xiaojun Bi, Chao Wang:
  A many-objective evolutionary algorithm based on hyperplane projection and penalty distance selection. 877-899
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  Megha Vora, T. T. Mirnalinee:
  Dynamic small world particle swarm optimizer for function optimization. 901-917