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Natural Computing: A Natural and Timely Trend for Natural Sciences and Science of Computation

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Computation and Logic in the Real World (CiE 2007)

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Natural computing refers to computation taking place in nature and to humandesigned computation inspired by nature. When complex phenomena going on in nature are viewed as computational processes, our understanding of these phenomena and of the essence of computation is enhanced. On the other hand human-designed computing inspired by nature has had already a big impact on the development of computer science (think, e.g., about neural computing, evolutionary computing, molecular computing and quantum computing).

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  1. Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

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  1. Dept. of Pure Mathematics, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK

    S. Barry Cooper

  2. Institue for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), Universiteit van Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018, TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Benedikt Löwe

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche ed Informatiche “R. Magari”, University of Siena, 53100, Siena, Italy

    Andrea Sorbi

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Rozenberg, G. (2007). Natural Computing: A Natural and Timely Trend for Natural Sciences and Science of Computation. In: Cooper, S.B., Löwe, B., Sorbi, A. (eds) Computation and Logic in the Real World. CiE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73001-9_69

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