Natural Computing, Volume 7

Volume 7, Number 1, March 2008

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  Cristian S. Calude, Gheorghe Paun:
  Foreword. 1
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  Oscar H. Ibarra, Sara Woodworth, Fang Yu, Andrei Paun:
  On spiking neural P systems and partially blind counter machines. 3-19
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  William B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli:
  Mapping non-conventional extensions of genetic programming. 21-43
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  Michael C. Mozer, Adrian Fan:
  Top-Down modulation of neural responses in visual perception: a computational exploration. 45-55
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  Mihai Oltean:
  Solving the Hamiltonian path problem with a light-based computer. 57-70
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  M. Sakthi Balan, Helmut Jürgensen:
  On the universality of peptide computing. 71-94
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  Damien Woods, J. Paul Gibson:
  Lower bounds on the computational power of an optical model of computation. 95-108
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  Alec Banks, Jonathan Vincent, Chukwudi Anyakoha:
  A review of particle swarm optimization. Part II: hybridisation, combinatorial, multicriteria and constrained optimization, and indicative applications. 109-124
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  Kaoru Onodera, Takashi Yokomori:
  Doubler and linearizer: an approach toward a unified theory for molecular computing based on DNA complementarity. 125-143

Volume 7, Number 2, June 2008

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  Chengde Mao, Takashi Yokomori:
  Foreword. 145-146
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  Haiming Chen, Mihai Ionescu, Tseren-Onolt Ishdorj, Andrei Paun, Gheorghe Paun, Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez:
  Spiking neural P systems with extended rules: universality and languages. 147-166
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  Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú, Sergey Verlan:
  On length-separating test tube systems. 167-181
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  Stanislav Angelov, Sanjeev Khanna, Mirkó Visontai:
  On the complexity of graph self-assembly in accretive systems. 183-201
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  David Soloveichik, Matthew Cook, Erik Winfree:
  Combining self-healing and proofreading in self-assembly. 203-218
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  Rebecca Schulman, Erik Winfree:
  How crystals that sense and respond to their environments could evolve. 219-237
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  Clifford R. Johnson:
  Automating the DNA computer: solving n-Variable 3-SAT problems. 239-253
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  William Thies, John Paul Urbanski, Todd Thorsen, Saman P. Amarasinghe:
  Abstraction layers for scalable microfluidic biocomputing. 255-275
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  Zuwairie Ibrahim, John A. Rose, Akira Suyama, Marzuki Khalid:
  Experimental implementation and analysis of a DNA computing readout method based on real-time PCR with TaqMan probes. 277-286
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  Atsushi Kameda, Masahito Yamamoto, Azuma Ohuchi, Satsuki Yaegashi, Masami Hagiya:
  Unravel four hairpins! 287-298

Volume 7, Number 3, September 2008

Special Issue on Selected Topics in Biomolecular Computing

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  Max H. Garzon, Hao Yan:
  Preface. 299-301
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  Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Ken Komiya, Daisuke Kiga, Masayuki Yamamura:
  A design and feasibility study of reactions comprising DNA molecular machine that walks autonomously by using a restriction enzyme. 303-315
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  Pablo Moisset de Espanés, Ashish Goel:
  Toward minimum size self-assembled counters. 317-334
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  Masahito Yamamoto, Satoshi Kashiwamura, Azuma Ohuchi, Masashi Furukawa:
  Large-scale DNA memory based on the nested PCR. 335-346
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  Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Sándor P. Fekete, Mashhood Ishaque, Eynat Rafalin, Robert T. Schweller, Diane L. Souvaine:
  Staged self-assembly: nanomanufacture of arbitrary shapes with O (1) glues. 347-370
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  Akio Nishikawa, Satsuki Yaegashi, Fumiaki Tanaka, Kazumasa Ohtake, Masami Hagiya:
  Multi-fueled approach to DNA nano-robotics. 371-383
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  Artiom Alhazov, Ion Petre, Vladimir Rogojin:
  Solutions to computational problems through gene assembly. 385-401
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  Miki Hirabayashi, Hirotada Ohashi, Tai Kubo:
  Experimental analysis of the basic idea on the transcription-based diagnostic automata controlled by programmed molecules. 403-421
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  Angela M. Pagano, Sammy D. Pishanider, Susannah Gal:
  Incorporation and use of modified nucleotides in aqueous DNA computing. 423-438
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  Michael Domaratzki:
  Equivalence in template-guided recombination. 439-449

Volume 7, Number 4, December 2008

Special Issue on spiking neural P systems

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  Mihai Ionescu, Gheorghe Paun, Takashi Yokomori:
  Preface. 451-452
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  Matteo Cavaliere, Ivan Mura:
  Experiments on the reliability of stochastic spiking neural P systems. 453-470
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  Marc García-Arnau, David Pérez, Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón, Petr Sosík:
  On the power of elementary features in spiking neural P systems. 471-483
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  Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo, Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, Daniel Ramírez-Martínez:
  A software tool for verification of Spiking Neural P Systems. 485-497
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  Oscar H. Ibarra, Sara Woodworth:
  Characterizations of some classes of spiking neural P systems. 499-517
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  Tseren-Onolt Ishdorj, Alberto Leporati:
  Uniform solutions to SAT and 3-SAT by spiking neural P systems with pre-computed resources. 519-534
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  Xingyi Zhang, Xiangxiang Zeng, Linqiang Pan:
  On string languages generated by spiking neural P systems with exhaustive use of rules. 535-549
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  Gheorghe Paun:
  Bibliography of spiking neural P systems. 551-553
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  Dirk V. Arnold, Hans-Georg Beyer:
  Evolution strategies with cumulative step length adaptation on the noisy parabolic ridge. 555-587
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  William B. Langdon, Wolfgang Banzhaf:
  Repeated patterns in genetic programming. 589-613
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  David Soloveichik, Matthew Cook, Erik Winfree, Jehoshua Bruck:
  Computation with finite stochastic chemical reaction networks. 615-633