Natural Computing, Volume 21

Volume 21, Number 1, March 2022

Part 1: Special Issue: Automata 2019 - Selected papers from the 25th International workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems

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  Alonso Castillo-Ramirez, Pedro Paulo Balbi de Oliveira:
  Preface. 1-2
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  Martin Kutrib, Andreas Malcher:
  Iterative arrays with finite inter-cell communication. 3-15
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  Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas, Kaito Hoshi, Akihiro Yamamura:
  The effect of jumping modes on various automata models. 17-30
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  Alonso Castillo-Ramirez:
  On the minimal number of generators of endomorphism monoids of full shifts. 31-38
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  Martin Kutrib:
  Iterative arrays with self-verifying communication cell. 39-51
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  Augusto Modanese:
  Complexity-theoretic aspects of expanding cellular automata. 53-65
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  Augusto Modanese:
  Correction to: Complexity-theoretic aspects of expanding cellular automata. 67
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  J. Andres Montoya, Carolina Mejía:
  On the predictability of the abelian sandpile model. 69-79
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  Jasmijn A. Baaijens, Paola Bonizzoni, Christina Boucher, Gianluca Della Vedova, Yuri Pirola, Raffaella Rizzi, Jouni Sirén:
  Computational graph pangenomics: a tutorial on data structures and their applications. 81-108
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  Przemyslaw A. Grudniewski, Adam J. Sobey:
  Benchmarking the performance of genetic algorithms on constrained dynamic problems. 109-125

Volume 21, Number 2, June 2022

Special Issue: Understanding of Evolutionary Optimization Behavior, Part 2

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  Christian Blum, Tome Eftimov, Peter Korosec:
  Preface. 127-130
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  Mario Andrés Muñoz, Michael Kirley, Kate Smith-Miles:
  Analyzing randomness effects on the reliability of exploratory landscape analysis. 131-154
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  Helena Stegherr, Michael Heider, Jörg Hähner:
  Classifying Metaheuristics: Towards a unified multi-level classification system. 155-171
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  Dirk Schweim, David Wittenberg, Franz Rothlauf:
  On sampling error in genetic programming. 173-186
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  Tomohiro Harada, Misaki Kaidan, Ruck Thawonmas:
  Comparison of synchronous and asynchronous parallelization of extreme surrogate-assisted multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. 187-217
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  Jörg Stork, A. E. Eiben, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein:
  A new taxonomy of global optimization algorithms. 219-242
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  Yi Liu, Will N. Browne, Bing Xue:
  Visualizations for rule-based machine learning. 243-264
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  Jésica de Armas, Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, Surafel Luleseged Tilahun, Stefan Voß:
  Similarity in metaheuristics: a gentle step towards a comparison methodology. 265-287
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  Jakub Sawicki, Marcin Los, Maciej Smolka, Robert Schaefer:
  Understanding measure-driven algorithms solving irreversibly ill-conditioned problems. 289-315
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  Sarah L. Thomson, Gabriela Ochoa, Sébastien Vérel:
  The fractal geometry of fitness landscapes at the local optima level. 317-333
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  Andries P. Engelbrecht, Phlippie Bosman, Katherine M. Malan:
  The influence of fitness landscape characteristics on particle swarm optimisers. 335-345
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  Ivan Zelinka, Swagatam Das:
  Gamesourcing: an unconventional tool to assist the solution of the traveling salesman problem. 347-357

Volume 21, Number 3, September 2022

Part 1: Special Issue: Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI) 2020

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  Tomasz M. Gwizdalla, Luca Manzoni, Giancarlo Mauri:
  Preface. 359-360
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  Martin Kutrib, Andreas Malcher:
  One-dimensional pattern generation by cellular automata. 361-375
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  Luca Mariot, Martina Saletta, Alberto Leporati, Luca Manzoni:
  Heuristic search of (semi-)bent functions based on cellular automata. 377-391
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  Bouthayna Mhamdi, Soufiene Bettaibi, Omar Jellouli, Moez Chafra:
  MRT-lattice Boltzmann hybrid model for the double diffusive mixed convection with thermodiffusion effect. 393-405
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  Ekaterina Kirik, Tat'yana Vitova:
  Time discretization in the time-continuous pedestrian dynamics model SigmaEva. 407-415
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  Rolf Hoffmann, Dominique Désérable, Franciszek Seredynski:
  Cellular automata rules solving the wireless sensor network coverage problem. 417-447
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  Isaías Lima, Pedro Paulo Balbi de Oliveira:
  Estimates of the collective immunity to COVID-19 derived from a stochastic cellular automaton based framework. 449-461
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  Charilaos Kyriakou, Ioakeim G. Georgoudas, Nick P. Papanikolaou, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis:
  A GIS-aided cellular automata system for monitoring and estimating graph-based spread of epidemics. 463-480
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  Guillaume Theyssier:
  Cold dynamics in cellular automata: a tutorial. 481-505
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  Vitor Pereira, Pedro Sousa, Miguel Rocha:
  A comparison of multi-objective optimization algorithms for weight setting problems in traffic engineering. 507-522

Volume 21, Number 4, December 2022

Part 1: Special Issue: Selected Papers from the 8th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2019, Almería, Spain / Special Issue: Selected Papers from the 8th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2019, Kingston ON, Canada

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  José Manuel Ferrández de Vicente, José Santos Reyes:
  Preface. 523-524
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  Jesús Fernández-Conde, Pedro Manuel Cuenca-Jiménez, Rafael Toledo-Moreo:
  A multi-level AI-based scheduler to increase adaptiveness in time-constrained mobile communication environments. 525-535
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  Daniel Varela, José Santos Reyes:
  Protein structure prediction in an atomic model with differential evolution integrated with the crowding niching method. 537-551
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  Francisco Javier Gil Gala, María R. Sierra, Carlos Mencía, Ramiro Varela:
  Combining hyper-heuristics to evolve ensembles of priority rules for on-line scheduling. 553-563
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  Jonatan Ginés, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Lera, Francisco Martín, Ángel Manuel Guerrero, Vicente Matellán:
  Depicting probabilistic context awareness knowledge in deliberative architectures. 565-576
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  Raúl Mencía, Carlos Mencía, Ramiro Varela:
  A memetic algorithm for restoring feasibility in scheduling with limited makespan. 577-587
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  Ameed Almomani, Eduardo Sánchez:
  Blind methods to build choice-based ensembles. 589-601
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  Carlos Martín-Vide, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez:
  Preface. 603
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  Kaoru Fujioka:
  On the computational power of swarm automata using agents with position information. 605-614
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  Ken Takashima, Daiki Miyahara, Takaaki Mizuki, Hideaki Sone:
  Actively revealing card attack on card-based protocols. 615-628
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  Alberto Leporati, Giancarlo Mauri, Claudio Zandron:
  Spiking neural P systems: main ideas and results. 629-649
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  Moritz Mühlenthaler, Alexander Raß, Manuel Schmitt, Rolf Wanka:
  Exact Markov chain-based runtime analysis of a discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm on sorting and OneMax. 651-677
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  Benedek Nagy, Shaghayegh Parchami:
  $5'\rightarrow 3'$ Watson-Crick automata languages-without sensing parameter. 679-691