Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez - Böcker

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2017, held in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2018. The 35 full papers presented in this book, together with one invited talk, were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topical sections: applications of natural computing as algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economics. The more theoretical contributions handle with artificial chemistry, artificial immune systems, artificial life, cellular automata, cognitive computing, cognitive engineering, cognitive robotics, collective behaviour, complex systems, computational intelligence, computational social science, computing with words, developmental systems, DNA computing, DNA nanotechnology, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary computing, evolutionary game theory, fractal geometry, fuzzy control, fuzzy logic, fuzzy sets,fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, granular computing, heuristics, intelligent agents, intelligent systems, machine intelligence, molecular programming, neural computing, neural networks, quantum communication, quantum computing, rough sets, self-assembly.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th InternationalConference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2019, held in Berkeley, CA, USA, in May 2019. The 15 full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2019, held in Kingston, ON, Canada, in December 2019. The 15 full papers presented in this book, together with two invited talk, were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2020, was planned to be held in Missoula, MT, USA in April 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2020, held in Taoyuan, Taiwan, in December 2020. The 12 full papers presented in this book, together with one invited talk, were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2020, was planned to be held in Missoula, MT, USA in June 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2021, held virtually, in December 2021. The 9 full papers presented together with 3 invited talks, in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third InternationalConference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2016, held inTrujillo, Spain, in June 2016. The 13 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed andselected from 23 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2016, held in Sendai, Japan, in December 2016. The papers are grouped in topical sections on applications of natural computing, evolutionary computation, formal models, and machine learning.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th InternationalConference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2017, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in June 2017. The 10 full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the workshops of the 23rd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2016, held in Grenoble, France in August 2016.   The 65 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions.The volume includes the papers from the following workshops: Euro-EDUPAR (Second European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students) – HeteroPar 2016 (the 14th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms) – IWMSE (5th International Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering) – LSDVE (Fourth Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Virtual Environments) -  PADABS (Fourth Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations) – PBio (Fourth International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics) – PELGA (Second Workshop on Performance Engineering for Large-Scale Graph Analytics) – REPPAR (Third International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing) – Resilience (9th Workshop in Resilience in High Performance Computing in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids) – ROME (Fourth Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-Core Era) – UCHPC (9th Workshop on UnConventional High-Performance Computing).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference,on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2017, held in Prague, Czech Republic, December 2017.The 22 full papers presented in this book, together with one invited talk, werecarefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topical sections: applications of natural computing; evolutionary computation; fuzzy logic; Molecular computation; neural networks; quantum computing.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th InternationalConference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2018, held in Hong Kong, China, in June 2018. The 11 full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions.