Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation

✍ Scribed by Marcello Pelillo, Irene Poli, Andrea Roli, Roberto Serra, Debora Slanzi, Marco Villani

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science 830
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 12th Italian Workshop on Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2017, held in Venice, Italy, in September 2017.The 23 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They cover the following topics: physical-chemical phenomena; biological systems; economy and society; complexity; optimization.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages I-XI
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Quantum Neural Networks Achieving Quantum Algorithms (Delphine Nicolay, Timoteo Carletti)....Pages 3-15
Signal Transduction and Communication Through Model Membranes in Networks of Coupled Chemical Oscillators (Federico Rossi, Kristian Torbensen, Sandra Ristori, Ali Abou-Hassan)....Pages 16-31
Controlling Chemical Chaos in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Oscillator (Marcello A. Budroni, Mauro Rustici, Nadia Marchettini, Federico Rossi)....Pages 32-48
Fragment Based Molecular Dynamics for Drug Design (Lucia Sessa, Luigi Di Biasi, Simona Concilio, Stefano Piotto)....Pages 49-58
Stochastic Numerical Models of Oscillatory Phenomena (Raffaele D’Ambrosio, Martina Moccaldi, Beatrice Paternoster, Federico Rossi)....Pages 59-69
Front Matter ....Pages 71-71
Understanding Embodied Cognition by Building Models of Minimal Life (Luisa Damiano, Pasquale Stano)....Pages 73-87
Computing Hierarchical Transition Graphs of Asynchronous Genetic Regulatory Networks (Marco Pedicini, Maria Concetta Palumbo, Filippo Castiglione)....Pages 88-103
The Impact of Self-loops in Random Boolean Network Dynamics: A Simulation Analysis (Sara Montagna, Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli)....Pages 104-115
A Comparison Between Threshold Ergodic Sets and Stochastic Simulation of Boolean Networks for Modelling Cell Differentiation (Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli, Marco Villani, Roberto Serra)....Pages 116-128
A Relevance Index Method to Infer Global Properties of Biological Networks (Marco Villani, Laura Sani, Michele Amoretti, Emilio Vicari, Riccardo Pecori, Monica Mordonini et al.)....Pages 129-141
Dynamical Properties of a Gene-Protein Model (Davide Sapienza, Marco Villani, Roberto Serra)....Pages 142-152
Simulating Populations of Protocells with Uneven Division (Martina Musa, Marco Villani, Roberto Serra)....Pages 153-164
An Integrated Model Quantitatively Describing Metabolism, Growth and Cell Cycle in Budding Yeast (Pasquale Palumbo, Marco Vanoni, Federico Papa, Stefano Busti, Meike Wortel, Bas Teusink et al.)....Pages 165-180
Estimating Effects of Extrinsic Noise on Model Genes and Circuits with Empirically Validated Kinetics (Samuel M. D. Oliveira, Mohamed N. M. Bahrudeen, Sofia Startceva, Andre S. Ribeiro)....Pages 181-193
Front Matter ....Pages 195-195
Calibrating Dynamic Factor Models with Genetic Algorithms (Fabio Della Marra)....Pages 197-211
Functional Interactions in Complex Networks: A Three-Step Methodology for the Implementation of the Relevance Index (RI) (Riccardo Righi, Sofia Samoili)....Pages 212-228
Modeling Urbanization Perception: Emerging Topics on Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City Development (Debora Slanzi, Valentina Anzoise, Irene Poli)....Pages 229-239
Front Matter ....Pages 241-241
Complexity Measures in Automatic Design of Robot Swarms: An Exploratory Study (Andrea Roli, Antoine Ligot, Mauro Birattari)....Pages 243-256
Identification of “Die Hard” Nodes in Complex Networks: A Resilience Approach (Angela Lombardi, Sabina Tangaro, Roberto Bellotti, Angelo Cardellicchio, Cataldo Guaragnella)....Pages 257-268
Front Matter ....Pages 269-269
Automatic Algebraic Evolutionary Algorithms (Marco Baioletti, Alfredo Milani, Valentino Santucci)....Pages 271-283
Multi-objective Optimization in High-Dimensional Molecular Systems (Debora Slanzi, Valentina Mameli, Marina Khoroshiltseva, Irene Poli)....Pages 284-295
Multiple Network Motif Clustering with Genetic Algorithms (Clara Pizzuti, Annalisa Socievole)....Pages 296-307
Searching Relevant Variable Subsets in Complex Systems Using K-Means PSO (Gianluigi Silvestri, Laura Sani, Michele Amoretti, Riccardo Pecori, Emilio Vicari, Monica Mordonini et al.)....Pages 308-321
Back Matter ....Pages 323-323

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Mathematics of Computing