Methods and Models in Artificial and Natural Computation

A Model of Low Level Co-operativity in Cerebral Dynamic.- On Bridging the Gap between Human Knowledge and Computers: A Personal Tribute in Memory of Prof. J. Mira.- Personal Notes about the Figure and Legate of Professor Mira.- Intelligent Patient Monitoring: From Hardware to Learnware.- A Look toward the Past of My Work with the Professor Jose Mira.- Remembering Jose Mira.- Revisiting Algorithmic Lateral Inhibition and Accumulative Computation.- Detection of Speech Dynamics by Neuromorphic Units.- Spatio-temporal Computation with Neural Sensorial Maps.- Knowledge-Based Systems: A Tool for Distance Education.- ANLAGIS: Adaptive Neuron-Like Network Based on Learning Automata Theory and Granular Inference Systems with Applications to Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.- Neural Prosthetic Interfaces with the Central Nervous System: Current Status and Future Prospects.- Analytical Models for Transient Responses in the Retina.- Analysis of Retinal Ganglion Cells Population Responses Using Information Theory and Artificial Neural Networks: Towards Functional Cell Identification.- On Cumulative Entropies and Lifetime Estimations.- Activity Modulation in Human Neuroblastoma Cultured Cells: Towards a Biological Neuroprocessor.- A Network of Coupled Pyramidal Neurons Behaves as a Coincidence Detector.- Characterisation of Multiple Patterns of Activity in Networks of Relaxation Oscillators with Inhibitory and Electrical Coupling.- Scaling Power Laws in the Restoration of Perception with Increasing Stimulus in Deficitary Natural Neural Network.- Neuron-Less Neural-Like Networks with Exponential Association Capacity at Tabula Rasa.- Brain Complexity: Analysis, Models and Limits of Understanding.- Classifying a New Descriptor Based on Marr's Visual Theory.- Solving the Independent Set Problem by Using Tissue-Like P Systems with Cell Division.- How to Do Recombination in Evolution Strategies: An Empirical Study.- Serial Evolution.- A Sensitivity Clustering Method for Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms.- A Genetic Algorithm for the Open Shop Problem with Uncertain Durations.- Genetic Algorithm Combined with Tabu Search for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Setup Times.- Prediction and Inheritance of Phenotypes.- Controlling Particle Trajectories in a Multi-swarm Approach for Dynamic Optimization Problems.- Clustering Ensembles Using Ants Algorithm.- The kNN-TD Reinforcement Learning Algorithm.- Recombination Patterns for Natural Syntax.- Computing Natural Language with Biomolecules: Overview and Challenges.- A Christiansen Grammar for Universal Splicing Systems.- DNA Replication as a Model for Computational Linguistics.- jNEPView: A Graphical Trace Viewer for the Simulations of NEPs.- The Problem of Constructing General-Purpose Semantic Search Engines.- Computational Agents to Model Knowledge - Theory, and Practice in Visual Surveillance.- Knowledge and Event-Based System for Video-Surveillance Tasks.- ARDIS: Knowledge-Based Dynamic Architecture for Real-Time Surface Visual Inspection.- SONAR: A Semantically Empowered Financial Search Engine.- KBS in Context Aware Applications: Commercial Tools.- An Architecture Proposal for Adaptive Neuropsychological Assessment.- A Study of Applying Knowledge Modelling to Evidence-Based Guidelines.- Fuzzy Classification of Mortality by Infection of Severe Burnt Patients Using Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms.- Knowledge Based Information Retrieval with an Adaptive Hypermedia System.- Reveal the Collaboration in a Open Learning Environment.- Reasoning on the Evaluation of Wildfires Risk Using the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve and MODIS Images.- Optimised Particle Filter Approaches to Object Tracking in Video Sequences.- Towards Interoperability in Tracking Systems: An Ontology-Based Approach.- Multimodal Agents in Second Life and the New Agents of Virtual 3D Environments.- Application of Artificial Neural Networks to Complex Dielectric Constant Estimation from Free-Space Measurements.