This book highlights recent advances in natural computing, including biology and its theory, bio-inspired computing, computational aesthetics, computational models and theories, computing with natural media, philosophy of natural computing and educational technology. It presents extended versions of the best papers selected from the symposium 7th International Workshop on Natural Computing (IWNC7), held in Tokyo, Japan, in 2013.

The target audience is not limited to researchers working in natural computing but also those active in biological engineering, fine/media art design, aesthetics and philosophy.

Introduces recent research activities in 'Natural Computing' and shows the future direction of this discipline Presents a novel approach to understanding nature as computing Not limited to natural computing / computer science, it illustrates the emergence and scope of this novel field Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Recent Developments on Reaction Automata Theory; A Survey.- Comparison of Two Interval Models for Fuzzy-valued Genetic Algorithm.- Convergence of asynchronous cellular automata (under null boundary condition) and their application in pattern classification.- Science, So Close and Yet So Far Away; How People View Science, Science Subjects and Scientists.- Towards Cyber-Phenomenology: Aesthetics and Natural Computing in Multi-Level Information Systems.- Toward Another Possible Visualization of Massaging; The First Short Step from Klee to Scientific Visualization.- The Generation of Emotional Transmission via Medium-Perceiving Drawing System and The Plasticity of Subjects.- Fat as Soft Architecture; The Spontaneous Transformation of Lipids into Organic Geometries with Predefined Biophysical Properties.- Breeding-Back of Goldfish as a Practice that Mediates Between Experimental Biology and Aesthetics.