Natural Computing: 2nd International Workshop on Natural Computing Nagoya, Japan, December 2007, Proceedings - Proceedings in Information and Communications Technology 2009 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Combinatorial Optimization by Amoeba-Based Neurocomputer with Chaotic Dynamics / Masashi Aono, Yoshito Hirata, Masahiko Hara, Kazuyuki Aihara -- Factorizing RSA Keys (An Improved Analogue Solution) / Ed Blakey -- Toward a Representation of Hybrid Functional Petri Nets by MP Systems / Alberto Castellini, Giuditta Franco, Vincenzo Manca -- Computing with Feedforward Networks of Artificial Biochemical Neurons / Huub M. M. ten Eikelder, Sjoerd P. M. Crijns, Marvin N. Steijaert, Anthony M. L. Liekens, Peter A. J. Hilbers -- Information Processing with Structured Chemical Excitable Medium / J. Gorecki, J. N. Gorecka, Y. Igarashi, K. Yoshikawa -- Wholeness and Information Processing in Biological Networks: An Algebraic Study of Network Motifs / Taichi Haruna, Yukio-Pegio Gunji -- Regulation Effects by Programmed Molecules for Transcription-Based Diagnostic Automata towards Therapeutic Use / Miki Hirabayashi, Hirotada Ohashi, Tai Kubo -- On Detection and Isolation of Defective Cells in Self-Timed Cellular Automata / Teijiro Isokawa, Ferdinand Peper, Shin'ya Kowada, Naotake Kamiura, Nobuyuki Matsui -- Towards the Sequence Design Preventing Pseudoknot Formation / Lila Kari, Shinnosuke Seki -- Self-organized Spatio-temporal Oscillation Observed in a Chain of Non-oscillatory Cells / Yue Ma, Yoshiko Takenaka, Kenichi Yoshikawa -- Exploiting Natural Asynchrony and Local Knowledge within Systemic Computation to Enable Generic Neural Structures / Erwan Le Martelot, Peter J. Bentley, R. Beau Lotto -- Molecular Communication: Simulation of Microtubule Toplogy / Michael J. Moore, Akihiro Enomoto, Tadashi Nakano, Atsushi Kayasuga, Hiroaki Kojima, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Kazuhiro Oiwa, Tatsuya Suda -- Monte Carlo Simulation in Lattic Ecosystem: Top-Predator Conservation and Population Uncertainty / Hiroyasu Nagata, Kei-ichi Tainaka, Nariyuki Nakagiri, Jin Yoshimura -- Toward Biologically Inspired Constructive Computation / Hideyuki Nakashima -- A Classification of Triplet Local Rules with Inverse Image Sequences / Tatsuro Sato, Kazumasa Honda, Hyen Yeal Lee, Yasuo Kawahara -- An Efficient Multiple Alignment Method for RNA Secondary Structures Including Pseudoknots / Shinnosuke Seki, Satoshi Kobayashi -- Asymmetric Interaction in Non-equilibrium Dissipative System towards Dynamics for Biological System / Yuki Sugiyama -- Design and Numerical Analysis of RNA Oscillator / Masahiro Takinoue, Daisuke Kiga, Koh-ichiroh Shohda, Akira Suyama -- Protoplasmic Computing to Memorize and Recall Periodic Environmental Events / Atsushi Tero, Tetsu Saigusa, Toshiyuki Nakagaki -- A Synchronization Problem in Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata / Hiroshi Umeo -- Information Exchange between Moving Particles and Defects / Takashi Teramoto, Kei-Ichi Ueda, Xiaohui Yuan, Yasumasa Nishiura -- Author Index.