Natural Computing, Volume 3

Volume 3, Number 1, 2004

• Thomas Bäck, Marc Schoenauer, Lars Willmes:
  Preface. 1-3
  
• Cheah C. J. Moey, Jonathan E. Rowe:
  Population aggregation based on fitness. 5-19
  
• Jun He, Xin Yao:
  A study of drift analysis for estimating computation time of evolutionary algorithms. 21-35
  
• Marco Laumanns, Lothar Thiele, Eckart Zitzler:
  Running time analysis of evolutionary algorithms on a simplified multiobjective knapsack problem. 37-51
  
• Natalio Krasnogor, Steven Gustafson:
  A Study on the use of "self-generation" in memetic algorithms. 53-76
  
• Stefan Kern, Sibylle D. Müller, Nikolaus Hansen, Dirk Büche, Jiri Ocenasek, Petros Koumoutsakos:
  Learning probability distributions in continuous evolutionary algorithms - a comparative review. 77-112
  
• Hang Zhang, Jonathan E. Rowe:
  Best approximations of fitness functions of binary strings. 113-124
  

Volume 3, Number 2, 2004

• Sander M. Bohte, Michiel C. van Wezel, Joost N. Kok:
  Introduction. 133-134
  
• Laurent Perrinet:
  Finding independent components using spikes: A natural result of hebbian learning in a sparse spike coding scheme. 159-175
  
• Markus Volkmer:
  A pulsed neural network model of spectro-temporal receptive fields and population coding in auditory cortex. 177-193
  
• Sander M. Bohte:
  The evidence for neural information processing with precise spike-times: A survey. 195-206
  
• Olcay Kursun, Oleg V. Favorov:
  SINBAD automation of scientific discovery: From factor analysis to theory synthesis. 207-233
  

Volume 3, Number 3, 2004

• Alessandra Carbone, Chengde Mao, Pamela E. Constantinou, Baoquan Ding, Jens Kopatsch, William B. Sherman, Nadrian C. Seeman:
  3D Fractal DNA Assembly from Coding, Geometry and Protection. 235-252
  
• Max H. Garzon, Russell J. Deaton:
  Codeword design and information encoding in DNA ensembles. 253-292
  
• Florentin Wörgötter, Norbert Krüger, Nicolas Pugeault, Dirk Calow, Markus Lappe, Karl Pauwels, Marc M. Van Hulle, Sovira Tan, Alan Johnston:
  Early Cognitive Vision: Using Gestalt-Laws for Task-Dependent, Active Image-Processing. 293-321
  
• Stefan Kern, Sibylle D. Müller, Nikolaus Hansen, Dirk Büche, Jiri Ocenasek, Petros Koumoutsakos:
  Learning Probability Distributions in Continuous Evolutionary Algorithms - a Comparative Review. 355-356
  

Volume 3, Number 4, December 2004

• Max H. Garzon, John A. Rose:
  Editorial. 357-359
  
• Christian Jacob, Ian Burleigh:
  Biomolecular swarms - an agent-based model of the lactose operon. 361-376
  
• Mitsunori Takano, Junichi Higo, Hironori K. Nakamura, Masaki Sasai:
  On the model granularity to simulate protein dynamics: A biological physics view on biomolecular computing. 377-393
  
• Danny van Noort, John S. McCaskill:
  Flows in micro fluidic networks: From theory to experiment. 395-410
  
• John A. Rose, Akira Suyama:
  Physical modeling of biomolecular computers: Models, limitations, and experimental validation. 411-426
  
• Derrel Blain, Max H. Garzon, Soo-Yong Shin, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Satoshi Kashiwamura, Masahito Yamamoto, Atsushi Kameda, Azuma Ohuchi:
  Development, evaluation and benchmarking of simulation software for biomolecule-based computing. 427-442
  
• John A. Rose, Russell J. Deaton, Akira Suyama:
  Statistical thermodynamic analysis and designof DNA-based computers. 443-459
  
• Max H. Garzon, Derrel Blain, Andrew Neel:
  Virtual test tubes. 461-477