Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation
15th International Conference, UCNC 2016, Manchester, UK, July 11-15, 2016, Proceedings
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Synthetic biology uses living cells as the substrate for performing human-defined computations. Many current implementations of cellular computing are based on the “genetic circuit” metaphor, an approximation ...
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This chapter provides an introduction to the book Computational Matter, providing the historical background to the production of the book, and an overview of its scope and content.
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All computing is physical, requiring a substrate in which to perform the computation. Conventional computation (CCOMP), based on the Church-Turing thesis and the von Neumann architecture, is built upon logical...
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Synthetic biology is an emerging, rapidly growing research field in which engineering principles are applied to natural, living systems. A major goal of synthetic biology is to harness the inherent “biological...
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Ant colony optimisation (ACO) is a nature-inspired, population-based metaheuristic that has been used to solve a wide variety of computationally hard problems. In order to take full advantage of the inherently...
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15th International Conference, UCNC 2016, Manchester, UK, July 11-15, 2016, Proceedings
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In bacterial populations, cells are able to cooperate in order to yield complex collective functionalities. Interest in population-level cellular behaviour is increasing, due to both our expanding knowledge of th...
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The rapidly growing field of nature-inspired computing concerns the development and application of algorithms and methods based on biological or physical principles. This approach is particularly compelling for p...
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We present GPU implementations of two different nature-inspired optimization methods for well-known optimization problems. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a two-stage population-based method modelled on the f...
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A significant challenge in nature-inspired algorithmics is the identification of specific characteristics of problems that make them harder (or easier) to solve using specific methods. The hope is that, by ide...
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Engineering genetic Boolean logic circuits is a major research theme of synthetic biology. By altering or introducing connections between genetic components, novel regulatory networks are built in order to mim...
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In this paper we present a novel genetic algorithm (GA) solution to a simple yet challenging commercial puzzle game known as Zen Puzzle Garden (ZPG). We describe the game in detail, before presenting a suitabl...
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In this paper we describe a general method for the conversion of an equation-based model to an agent-based simulation. We illustrate the process by converting a well-known recent case-study in epidemiology (zo...