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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2017, held in Fayetteville, AR, USA in June 2017.
The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions.
The UCNC series of international conferences is genuinely interdisciplinary and it covers theory as well as experiments and applications. It is concerned with various proposals for computation that go beyond the Turing model, human designed computation inspired by nature, and with the computational nature of processes taking place in nature. Typical, but not exclusive, topics are: hypercomputation; chaos and dynamical systems based computing; granular, fuzzy and rough computing; mechanical computing; cellular, evolutionary, molecular, neural, and quantum computing; membrane computing; amorphous computing, swarm intelligence; artificial immune systems; physics of computation; chemical computation; evolving hardware; the computational nature of self-assembly, developmental processes, bacterial communication, and brain processes.

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The Power of Analogue-digital Machines.- Ways to Compute in Euclidean Frameworks. - Real-Time Computability of Real Numbers by Chemical Reaction Networks.- Temporal logic computation using DNA strand displacement reactions.- Quantum-dot Cellular Automata: a Clocked Architecture for High-speed, Energy-efficient Molecular Computing.- Platform color designs for interactive molecular arrangements.- Self-Assembly of Shapes at Constant Scale using Repulsive Forces.- Verification in Staged Tile Self-Assembly.-Self-Assembly of 4-sided Fractals in the Two-handed Tile Assembly Model.-Self-Assembled DC Resistive Circuits with Voltage Controlled Growth.- Morphogenetic and Homeostatic Self-Assembled Systems.- Superposition as memory: unlocking quantum automatic complexity.- Solving the Bin-Packing Problem by Means of Tissue P System with 2-Division.- Universal Matrix Insertion Grammars with Small Size.- Analysis on the Nested Duplication String System and Its Capacity.- Descrambling Order Analysis in Ciliates.

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