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Theory and Practice of Natural Computing

Second International Conference, TPNC 2013, Cáceres, Spain, December 3-5, 2013. Proceedings

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  1. Adrian-Horia Dediu

    1. Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

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  2. Carlos Martín-Vide

    1. Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona,, Spain

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  3. Bianca Truthe

    1. Fakultät für Informatik, Institut für Wissens- und Sprachverarbeitung, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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  4. Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez

    1. Escuela Politécnica, Department of Technologies of Computers and Communications, (TC2), University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8273)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

Conference series link(s): TPNC: International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Invited Talks

    1. Boosting Interactive Evolution Using Human Computation Markets

      • Joel Lehman, Risto Miikkulainen
      Pages 1-18

  3. Regular Papers

    1. A New Version of the Multiobjective Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Optimizing the Location Areas Planning in a Realistic Network

      • Víctor Berrocal-Plaza, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez, Juan M. Sánchez-Pérez
      Pages 19-30

    3. Online Gait Learning for Modular Robots with Arbitrary Shapes and Sizes

      • Massimiliano D’Angelo, Berend Weel, A. E. Eiben
      Pages 45-56

    4. Approach for Recognizing Allophonic Sounds of the Classical Arabic Based on Quran Recitations

      • Yahya O. Mohamed Elhadj, Mansour Alghamdi, Mohamed Alkanhal
      Pages 57-67

    5. Reliable Self-assembly by Self-triggered Activation of Enveloped DNA Tiles

      • Vinay Kumar Gautam, Pauline C. Haddow, Martin Kuiper
      Pages 68-79

    9. Probabilistic Analysis of Long-Term Swarm Performance under Spatial Interferences

      • Yara Khaluf, Mauro Birattari, Franz Rammig
      Pages 121-132

    10. Improving MLP Neural Network Performance by Noise Reduction

      • Mirosław Kordos, Andrzej Rusiecki
      Pages 133-144

    11. A Trajectory Algorithm to Solve the Relay Node Placement Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks

      • Jose M. Lanza-Gutiérrez, Juan A. Gomez-Pulido, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez
      Pages 145-156

    12. Using Dynamic, Full Cache Locking and Genetic Algorithms for Cache Size Minimization in Multitasking, Preemptive, Real-Time Systems

      • Antonio Martí Campoy, Francisco Rodríguez-Ballester, Rafael Ors Carot
      Pages 157-168

    13. General Quantum Encryption Scheme Based on Quantum Memory

      • Marius Nagy, Naya Nagy
      Pages 169-180

    14. Quantum Secret Communication without an Encryption Key

      • Marius Nagy, Naya Nagy
      Pages 181-192

    15. Securely Computing the Three-Input Majority Function with Eight Cards

      • Takuya Nishida, Takaaki Mizuki, Hideaki Sone
      Pages 193-204

    16. An Analysis of a Selecto-Lamarckian Model of Multimemetic Algorithms with Dynamic Self-organized Topology

      • Rafael Nogueras, Carlos Cotta, Carlos M. Fernandes, Juan Luis Jiménez Laredo, Juan Julián Merelo, Agostinho C. Rosa
      Pages 205-216

    17. Parallel Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm

      • Oliver Rice, Robert E. Smith, Rickard Nyman
      Pages 217-227

    18. Evolutionary Scheduling for Mobile Content Pre-fetching

      • Omar K. Shoukry, Magda B. Fayek
      Pages 228-239
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference, TPNC 2013, held in Cáceres, Spain, in December 2013. The 19 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on nature-inspired models of computation; synthesizing nature by means of computation; nature-inspired materials and information processing in nature.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

    Adrian-Horia Dediu

  • Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona,, Spain

    Carlos Martín-Vide

  • Fakultät für Informatik, Institut für Wissens- und Sprachverarbeitung, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

    Bianca Truthe

  • Escuela Politécnica, Department of Technologies of Computers and Communications, (TC2), University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

    Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez

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