Natural Computing and Beyond

1. Ethological Response to Periodic Stimulation in Chara and Blepharisma

Itsuki Kunita, Sho Sato, Tetsu Saigusa, Toshiyuki Nakagaki

2. Adaptive Path-Finding and Transport Network Formation by the Amoeba-Like Organism Physarum

Itsuki Kunita, Kazunori Yoshihara, Atsushi Tero, Kentaro Ito, Chiu Fan Lee, Mark D. Fricker, Toshiyuki Nakagaki

3. Aggregate “Calculation” in Economic Phenomena: Distributions and Fluctuations
Yoshi Fujiwara

4. Towards Co-evolution of Information, Life and Artificial Life
Masami Hagiya, Ibuki Kawamata

5. Harness the Nature for Computation
Yasuhiro Suzuki

6. Things Theory of Art Should Learn from Natural Computing
Fuminori Akiba

7. Study on the Use of Evolutionary Techniques for Inference in Gene Regulatory Networks
Leon Palafox, Nasimul Noman, Hitoshi Iba

8. Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Networks from Gene Expression Data Using Decoupled Recurrent Neural Network Model
Nasimul Noman, Leon Palafox, Hitoshi Iba

9. Design and Control of Synthetic Biological Systems
Ryoji Sekine, Masayuki Yamamura

10. Preface: Natural Computing and Computational Aesthetics
Fuminori Akiba

11. The Significance of Natural Computing for Considering Computational Aesthetics of Nature
Fuminori Akiba

12. Perceiving the Gap: Asynchronous Coordination of Plural Algorithms and Disconnected Logical Types in Ambient Space
Miki Goan, Katsuyoshi Tsujita, Takuma Ishikawa, Shinichi Takashima, Susumu Kihara, Kenjiro Okazaki

13. Aesthetic Aspects of Technology-Mediated Self-awareness Experiences
Junji Watanabe

Avainsanat: Computer Science, Simulation and Modeling, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Models and Principles, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities