Recent Results in Natural Computing
In the second part of the 20th century, a great deal of effort was
devoted to understanding how computations take place in nature, and to
benefit from this understanding by getting more efficient algorithms or
even new types of computers.
Within the First Joint Meeting between the RSME and the AMS, held in
Sevilla, from June 18 to June 21, 2004, a Special Session entitled
Biomolecular Mathematics was organized by Fernando Guzmán and Tom Head,
from Binghamton University (USA), Carlos Martín-Vide, from University
Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona (Spain), and Mario J. Pérez Jiménez, from
University of Sevilla (Spain).
To that Session were invited, as speakers, Alessandra Carbone (Institut
des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques), Rudolf Freund (Technische Universitaet
Wien), Tero Harju (University of Turku), Mike Holcombe (University of
Sheffield), Gheorghe Paun (Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian
Academy), and Rani Siromoney (Madra Christian College). Following the
conference presentations by the invited researchers, four talks were
given, with the session being closed by a discussion of Recent results
in Natural Computing. The title of this volume is intended to reflect
the spirit of the last act that took place in the Special Session of
Biomolecular Mathematics. The main goal of the volume is to present
recent results in such research areas as evolutionary computing,
molecular computing, and membrane computing, all of which belong to the
emerging area of of Natural Computing, which is concerned with both the
computing taking place in Nature and the new methods of computing
inspired by Nature.
All participants in the above mentioned Session of the Joint Meeting
were invited to collaborate in this volume, as well as other prominent
researchers belonging to the field of Natural Computing that could not
attend the Special Session.
We have collected 13 papers by 20 authors in the present volume. We hope
that the papers collected here contribute to deepen the study of several
topics in Natural Computing, and to strengthen some of the emerging
lines in this field.
We would like to thank all the authors for their good attitude towards
participating in the elaboration of this book, as well as for the
quality of the papers presented. They are the responsible and true
editors of this publication. We also thank all who have had to decline
our invitation because of their busy research agendas.
Sevilla, May 2004
Mario J. Pérez--Jiménez
Alvaro Romero Jiménez
Fernando Sancho Caparrini
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