Natural Computing, Volume 20

Volume 20, Number 1, March 2021

Part 1: Special Issues: Advances in Swarm Intelligence Algorithms 3 - Selected papers from the 9th and 10th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence and the 3rd and 4th International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data

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  Ying Tan, Yuhui Shi, Xin Yao:
  Preface. 1-2
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  Haifeng Ling, Tao Zhu, Weixiong He, Zhanliang Zhang, Hongchuan Luo:
  Cooperative search method for multiple AUVs based on target clustering and path optimization. 3-10
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  Jian Cheng, Jingjing Chen, Yinan Guo, Shi Cheng, Linkai Yang, Pei Zhang:
  Adaptive CCR-ELM with variable-length brain storm optimization algorithm for class-imbalance learning. 11-22
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  N. Arunachalam, A. Amuthan:
  Integrated probability multi-search and solution acceptance rule-based artificial bee colony optimization scheme for web service composition. 23-38
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  Lalit Kumar, Kusum Kumari Bharti:
  A novel hybrid BPSO-SCA approach for feature selection. 39-61
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  Ben Niu, Wenjie Yi, Lijing Tan, Shuang Geng, Hong Wang:
  A multi-objective feature selection method based on bacterial foraging optimization. 63-76
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  Jing Liang, Yunpeng Wei, Boyang Qu, Caitong Yue, Hui Song:
  Ensemble learning based on fitness Euclidean-distance ratio differential evolution for classification. 77-87
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  Ben Niu, Qianying Liu, Zhengxu Wang, Lijing Tan, Li Li:
  Multi-objective bacterial colony optimization algorithm for integrated container terminal scheduling problem. 89-104
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  Mingyang Chen:
  An enhanced monarch butterfly optimization with self-adaptive crossover operator for unconstrained and constrained optimization problems. 105-126
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  Timothy Atkinson, Detlef Plump, Susan Stepney:
  Evolving graphs with semantic neutral drift. 127-143
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  Mercedeh Dodge, S. A. MirHassani, Farnaz Hooshmand:
  Solving two-dimensional cutting stock problem via a DNA computing algorithm. 145-159
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  Robert Brijder, Joris J. M. Gillis, Jan Van den Bussche:
  DNAQL: a query language for DNA sticker complexes. 161-189

Volume 20, Number 2, June 2021

Part 1: Special Issues: Unconventional Computing and Natural Computing - Selected papers from 2019 conference

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  Ian McQuillan, Shinnosuke Seki:
  Preface. 191-192
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  Henning Bordihn, Victor Mitrana, Andrei Paun, Mihaela Paun:
  Hairpin completions and reductions: semilinearity properties. 193-203
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  Matthew Dale, Simon O'Keefe, Angelika Sebald, Susan Stepney, Martin A. Trefzer:
  Reservoir computing quality: connectivity and topology. 205-216
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  James Garrett, Natasa Jonoska, Hwee Kim, Masahico Saito:
  DNA origami words, graphical structures and their rewriting systems. 217-231
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  Susan Stepney, Viv Kendon:
  The representational entity in physical computing. 233-242
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  Daniel Hader, Matthew J. Patitz:
  Geometric tiles and powers and limitations of geometric hindrance in self-assembly. 243-258
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  Mika Hirvensalo, Etienne Moutot, Abuzer Yakaryilmaz:
  Computational limitations of affine automata and generalized affine automata. 259-270
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  Mika Hirvensalo, Etienne Moutot, Abuzer Yakaryilmaz:
  Correction to: Computational limitations of affine automata and generalized affine automata. 271
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  Johan Kopra:
  On computing the Lyapunov exponents of reversible cellular automata. 273-286
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  Tianshi Wang, Leon Wu, Parth Nobel, Jaijeet Roychowdhury:
  Solving combinatorial optimisation problems using oscillator based Ising machines. 287-306
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  Raimundo Briceño, Ivan Rapaport:
  Communication complexity meets cellular automata: Necessary conditions for intrinsic universality. 307-320
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  Jorge C. Lucero:
  Pumping lemmas for classes of languages generated by folding systems. 321-327
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  Kohei Maruyama, Shinnosuke Seki:
  Counting infinitely by oritatami co-transcriptional folding. 329-340

Volume 20, Number 3, September 2021

Special Issue: Understanding of Evolutionary Optimization Behavior, part I

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  Christian Blum, Tome Eftimov, Peter Korosec:
  Preface. 341-344
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  Sara Tari, Matthieu Basseur, Adrien Goëffon:
  On the use of (1, λ )-evolution strategy as efficient local search mechanism for discrete optimization: a behavioral analysis. 345-361
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  Thomas Gabor, Thomy Phan, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien:
  Productive fitness in diversity-aware evolutionary algorithms. 363-376
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  Jonatan Gómez, Elizabeth León:
  On the class of hybrid adaptive evolutionary algorithms (chavela). 377-394
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  Dazhi Jiang, Zhihang Tian, Zhihui He, Geng Tu, Ruixiang Huang:
  A framework for designing of genetic operators automatically based on gene expression programming and differential evolution. 395-411
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  Grasiele Regina Duarte, Afonso Celso de Castro Lemonge, Leonardo Goliatt da Fonseca, Beatriz Souza Leite Pires de Lima:
  An Island Model based on Stigmergy to solve optimization problems. 413-441
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  Sameh Kessentini, Ihcène Naâs:
  Absolute versus stochastic stability of the artificial bee colony in synchronous and sequential modes. 443-470
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  Ihcène Naâs, Sameh Kessentini:
  GSA improvement via the von Neumann stability analysis. 471-511
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  Reshu Chaudhary, Hema Banati:
  Improving convergence in swarm algorithms by controlling range of random movement. 513-560
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  Francesco Quinzan, Andreas Göbel, Markus Wagner, Tobias Friedrich:
  Evolutionary algorithms and submodular functions: benefits of heavy-tailed mutations. 561-575
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  Nitin Mittal, Arpan Garg, Prabhjot Singh, Simrandeep Singh, Harbinder Singh:
  Improvement in learning enthusiasm-based TLBO algorithm with enhanced exploration and exploitation properties. 577-609
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  Luciano D. S. Pacífico, Teresa Bernarda Ludermir:
  An evaluation of k-means as a local search operator in hybrid memetic group search optimization for data clustering. 611-636

Volume 20, Number 4, December 2021

Part 1: Special Issue: Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation - Selected papers from the International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation 2020 / Special Issue: Intelligent Systems - Selected papers from the Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems 2019

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  David Doty, Rudolf Freund, Natasa Jonoska, Jarkko Kari:
  Preface. 637-638
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  Yuta Abe, Takaaki Mizuki, Hideaki Sone:
  Committed-format AND protocol using only random cuts. 639-645
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  Francesco Bellamoli, Giuditta Franco, Lila Kari, Silvia Lampis, Timothy Ng, Zihao Wang:
  Conjugate word blending: formal model and experimental implementation by XPCR. 647-658
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  David Caballero, Angel A. Cantu, Timothy Gomez, Austin Luchsinger, Robert T. Schweller, Tim Wylie:
  Fast reconfiguration of robot swarms with uniform control signals. 659-669
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  Henning Fernau, Lakshmanan Kuppusamy, Indhumathi Raman:
  On the generative capacity of matrix insertion-deletion systems of small sum-norm. 671-689
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  Yo-Sub Han, Hwee Kim:
  Impossibility of strict assembly of infinite fractals by oritatami. 691-701
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  Sergiu Ivanov, Sergey Verlan:
  Single semi-contextual insertion-deletion systems. 703-712
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  Kamil Khadiev, Vladislav Remidovskii:
  Classical and quantum algorithms for constructing text from dictionary problem. 713-724
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  Benedek Nagy:
  State-deterministic $5'\rightarrow 3'$ Watson-Crick automata. 725-737
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  Petr Sosík, Max H. Garzon, Jan Drastík:
  Self-healing turing-universal computation in morphogenetic systems. 739-750
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  André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, Anne Magály de Paula Canuto, Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro:
  Preface. 751-752
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  Felipe Casadei, Gisele L. Pappa:
  Multi-region symbolic regression: combining functions under a multi-objective approach. 753-773
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  Marcella Scoczynski Ribeiro Martins, Myriam R. B. S. Delgado, Ricardo Lüders, Diego Oliva, Markus Wagner, Inkyung Sung, Mohamed El Yafrani:
  Saving computational budget in Bayesian network-based evolutionary algorithms. 775-790
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  Tiago Colliri, Liang Zhao:
  Stock market trend detection and automatic decision-making through a network-based classification model. 791-804
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  Antonino Feitosa Neto, João Carlos Xavier Junior, Anne M. P. Canuto, Alexandre C. M. Oliveira:
  A study of model and hyper-parameter selection strategies for classifier ensembles: a robust analysis on different optimization algorithms and extended results. 805-819
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  Xinyu Cui, Dominic Scalise, Rebecca Schulman:
  Powering DNA strand-displacement reactions with a continuous flow reactor. 821-827
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  Roderick Edwards, Aude Maignan:
  Correction to: A class of discrete dynamical systems with properties of both cellular automata and L-systems. 829