Natural Computing, Volume 23

Volume 23, Number 1, March 2024

Part 1: Special Issue: Selected Papers from the 15th International Conference Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI2022)

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  Stefania Bandini, Bastien Chopard, Giancarlo Mauri:
  Preface. 1-3
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  Luca Mariot, Luca Manzoni:
  A classification of S-boxes generated by orthogonal cellular automata. 5-16
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  Pierre-Alain Toupance, Bastien Chopard, Laurent Lefèvre:
  System reduction: an approach based on probabilistic cellular automata. 17-29
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  Théo Plénet, Franco Bagnoli, Samira El Yacoubi, Clément Raïevsky, Laurent Lefèvre:
  Synchronization of elementary cellular automata. 31-40
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  Theodoros Panagiotis Chatzinikolaou, Rafailia-Eleni Karamani, Iosif-Angelos Fyrigos, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis:
  Handling Sudoku puzzles with irregular learning cellular automata. 41-60
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  Laura Garrido-Regife, Francisco Jiménez-Morales, Manuela González-Sánchez, Pedro Rivero-Antúnez, Víctor Morales-Flórez:
  Cellular automata simulations of the sintering behavior of ceramics driven by surface energy reduction. 61-68
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  Laura Garrido-Regife, Francisco Jiménez-Morales, Manuela González-Sánchez, Pedro Rivero-Antúnez, Víctor Morales-Flórez:
  Correction: Cellular automata simulations of the sintering behavior of ceramics driven by surface energy reduction. 69-70
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  Stefania Bandini, Daniela Briola, Alberto Dennunzio, Francesca Gasparini, Marta Giltri, Giuseppe Vizzari:
  Distance-based affective states in cellular automata pedestrian simulation. 71-83
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  Nathan Cohen, Bastien Chopard, Pierre Leone:
  Optimal safe driving dynamics for autonomous interacting vehicles. 85-97
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  Josu Ceberio, Alexander Mendiburu, José Antonio Lozano:
  A roadmap for solving optimization problems with estimation of distribution algorithms. 99-113
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  Johannes Lengler, Jonas Meier:
  Large population sizes and crossover help in dynamic environments. 115-129
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  Martin Kutrib, Matthias Wendlandt:
  Variants of string assembling systems. 131-156

Volume 23, Number 2, June 2024

Part 1: Special Issue: Selected Papers from the Third Workshop on Reaction Systems 2023 / Special Issue: Selected Papers from the 26th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming

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  Daniela Genova, Ion Petre:
  Preface. 157-158
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  Artiom Alhazov, Rudolf Freund, Sergiu Ivanov:
  On the spectrum between reaction systems and string rewriting. 159-175
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  Bogdan Aman, Gabriel Ciobanu:
  Solving subset sum and SAT problems by reaction systems. 177-187
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  Rocco Ascone, Giulia Bernardini, Enrico Formenti, Francesco Leiter, Luca Manzoni:
  Pure reaction automata. 189-204
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  Rocco Ascone, Giulia Bernardini, Luca Manzoni:
  Fixed points and attractors of additive reaction systems. 205-215
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  Linda Brodo, Roberto Bruni, Moreno Falaschi:
  A framework for monitored dynamic slicing of reaction systems. 217-234
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  Roberto Bruni, Roberta Gori, Paolo Milazzo, Hélène Siboulet:
  Melding Boolean networks and reaction systems under synchronous, asynchronous and most permissive semantics. 235-267
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  Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú, György Vaszil:
  Variants of distributed reaction systems. 269-284
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  Husain Intekhab, Wen Chean Teh:
  Ranks of functions specified by minimal reaction systems and induced by images of singletons. 285-293
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  Mariusz Kaniecki, Lukasz Mikulski:
  On categorical approach to reaction systems. 295-307
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  Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Aaron Lye:
  Modeling NP-problems with families of extended graph-based reaction systems. 309-322
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  Artur Meski, Maciej Koutny, Lukasz Mikulski, Wojciech Penczek:
  Reaction mining for reaction systems. 323-343
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  Matthew J. Patitz, Cody W. Geary:
  Preface. 345-346
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  James I. Lathrop, Jack H. Lutz, Robyn R. Lutz, Hugh D. Potter, Matthew R. Riley:
  Population-induced phase transitions and the verification of chemical reaction networks. 347-363
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  Titus H. Klinge, James I. Lathrop, Sonia Moreno, Hugh D. Potter, Narun K. Raman, Matthew R. Riley:
  ALCH: An imperative language for chemical reaction network-controlled tile assembly. 365-385
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  David Caballero, Timothy Gomez, Robert T. Schweller, Tim Wylie:
  Verification and computation in restricted Tile Automata. 387-405
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  Irina Kostitsyna, Cai Wood, Damien Woods:
  Turning machines: a simple algorithmic model for molecular robotics. 407-430
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  Noel E. Rodríguez-Maya, Juan J. Flores, Sébastien Vérel, Mario Graff:
  Models to classify the difficulty of genetic algorithms to solve continuous optimization problems. 431-451

Volume 23, Number 3, September 2024

Part 1: Special Issue: Selected papers from the 27th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming

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  Matthew R. Lakin, Petr Sulc:
  Preface. 453
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  Arnav Solanki, Tonglin Chen, Marc D. Riedel:
  Parallel pairwise operations on data stored in DNA: sorting, XOR, shifting, and searching. 455-476
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  Titus H. Klinge, James I. Lathrop, Peter-Michael Osera, Allison Rogers:
  Reactamole: functional reactive molecular programming. 477-495
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  Andrew Alseth, Daniel Hader, Matthew J. Patitz:
  Self-replication via tile self-assembly. 497-530
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  Bogdan Burlacu, Kaifeng Yang, Michael Affenzeller:
  Population diversity and inheritance in genetic programming for symbolic regression. 531-566
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  Marios Thymianis, Alexandros Tzanetos:
  Is integration of mechanisms a way to enhance a nature-inspired algorithm? 567-587

Volume 23, Number 4, December 2024

Part 1: Special Issue: Selected papers from the 28th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming

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  Thomas E. Ouldridge, Shelley F. J. Wickham:
  Editorial for the special issue on DNA computing and molecular programming. 589
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  Colin Yancey, Rebecca Schulman:
  Distinguishing genelet circuit input pulses via a pulse detector. 591-601
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  Andreas Padalkin, Christian Scheideler, Daniel Warner:
  The structural power of reconfigurable circuits in the amoebot model. 603-625
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  Andrew Alseth, Daniel Hader, Matthew J. Patitz:
  Universal shape replication via self-assembly with signal-passing tiles. 627-664
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  Susan Stepney:
  Physical reservoir computing: a tutorial. 665-685
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  Rafael Stubs Parpinelli, Nilcimar Neitzel Will, Renan Samuel da Silva:
  A self-adaptive evolutionary algorithm using Monte Carlo Fragment insertion and conformation clustering for the protein structure prediction problem. 687-705