Natural Computing and Beyond : Winter School Hakodate 2011, Hakodate, Japan, March 2011 and 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing, Tokyo, Japan, March 2012, Proceedings.

Cover -- Title -- Preface -- Organization -- Table of Contents -- Part I Natural Computing -- Ethological Response to Periodic Stimulation in Chara and Blepharisma -- Introduction -- Method -- Organism and Culture -- Observation of Swimming Behavior in Response to Periodic Stimulation in Blepharisma -- Measurement for Slowdown in Protoplasmic Flow, Induced by Periodic Stimulation in Chara -- Results -- Spontaneous Increases of Swimming Measure at an Anticipatory and a Recalling Occasions in Blepharisma -- Spontaneous Slowdown of Protoplasmic Flow at an Anticipatory Occasions in Chara -- Discussion -- References -- Adaptive Path-Finding and Transport Network Formation by the Amoeba-Like Organism Physarum -- Introduction -- Material and Methods -- Preparation of Organism and Maze -- Comparison of Network Structure between Real Transport Networks in the Hokkaido Region, Japan, and Physarum Networks Connecting FSs -- Results -- Solving a Maze with the Topological Type in Fig. 1a. -- Solving a Maze with Topological Type in Fig. 1c -- Transport Network in Hokkaido -- Path-Finding and Multi-functionally Networking Derived by Morphogenetic Dynamics of Vein -- Model Simulation -- Discussion -- References -- Aggregate "Calculation" in Economic Phenomena: Distributions and Fluctuations -- Introduction -- Distributions -- Fluctuations -- Distributions of Growth-Rates -- Relations among the Laws -- Summary -- References -- Towards Co-evolution of Information, Life and Artificial Life -- Introduction -- Spectrum of Wet Artificial Life -- Molecular Robotics -- Synthetic Biology -- Evolution and Self-organization of Information -- Amplification of Human Intelligence -- Automatic Design by Artificial Intelligence -- Cloud -- Future of Molecular Robots -- Connecting Chemical-Biological and Electronic Systems -- Dream -- References.

Harness the Nature for Computation -- Introduction -- Abstract Rewriting System on Multisets, ARMS -- Simulation of Natural Systems -- Modeling Ecological System -- Dissipation of Information -- Harness the Nature for Computation -- Conclusion -- References -- Things Theory of Art Should Learn from Natural Computing -- Introduction -- Critical Artworks -- Critical Artworks Irritate Me -- Where Are the Fine Arts? -- A Short History of Arts -- Traditional Distribution of Arts -- Reorganization of the Distribution in the 18th Century: Machine Arts and Fine Arts -- Fine Arts as the Intersection of Nature and Arts -- Summary of This Chapter -- Important Note (1) -- "Art" Deviates from Fine Arts -- What and How Should We Evaluate? Lessons from Natural Computing -- The Idea that Computation and Algorithm Caused the Total Reorganization of Arts -- The Idea of 'Harness' in Natural Computing Imitates Nature in Its Complexity -- Important Note (2) -- Other Key Points -- What Should We Evaluate? -- Concluding Remarks: What Theory of Art Could Learn from Natural Computing -- References -- Study on the Use of Evolutionary Techniques for Inference in Gene Regulatory Networks -- Introduction -- Related Work -- GRN Modeling -- S-System as a Model for Biological Networks -- RNN as a Model for GRN -- Estimation Criteria and Regularization -- Optimization Methods -- Dissipative PSO -- PBIL and Clustering -- Algorithm to Infer the GRN -- Experiments -- Real SOS Network -- Comparative Analysis on the Population Size and Number of Clusters -- Conclusions -- References -- Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Networks from Gene Expression Data Using Decoupled Recurrent Neural Network Model -- Introduction -- Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) Model -- Reverse Engineering Algorithm -- Fitness Evaluation Criteria -- Experimental Results -- Artificial Network Inference.

SOS DNA Repair Network Inference -- Conclusion -- References -- Design and Control of Synthetic Biological Systems -- Introduction -- Introduction of Synthetic Circuit Design -- Switches -- Oscillators -- Population Behaviors -- Control -- Conclusion and Perspectives -- References -- Part II Satellite Symposium on Computational Aesthetics -- Preface: Natural Computing and Computational Aesthetics -- The Significance of Natural Computing for Considering Computational Aesthetics of Nature -- Introduction -- The Scope of Aesthetics Suggested by Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment -- The Principle of the Lawful Unity of Nature -- A Principle of Purposiveness and Two Kinds of Judgment -- The Status and the Role of Aesthetic Judgment -- CA Understands Kant's Aesthetics Partially, But Insufficiently -- The Essential Task of Computational Aesthetics of Nature -- Natural Computing and Its Significance for Computational Aesthetics of Nature -- Two Ideas of Computation and the Idea of "Harness" -- Human Nature and the Harness Concept in NC -- Conclusion -- References -- Perceiving the Gap: Asynchronous Coordination of Plural Algorithms and Disconnected Logical Types in Ambient Space -- A Step Up in Logical Type -- Ambient Space -- Focus on the Creation Process (Learning Process) of the Arts: Reconsideration of the Dichotomy of "Figure and Ground" -- Workshop in an Art Museum -- Time and Place -- Participants -- Target Paintings for Reproduction -- Workshop Procedure -- Criteria of Analysis -- Results and Discussion -- From the Integration of Multiple Viewpoints to the Dissection of Multi-logical Types and Asynchronous Cooperation -- References -- Aesthetic Aspects of Technology-Mediated Self-awareness Experiences -- Introduction -- See What You Throw off from Visual Perception -- Save Yourself from Constraints of Free Will.

Real Sense of Life Generated by Touching Heartbeat -- Conclusion -- References -- Author Index.

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