How life can emerge in a lifeless environment is one of the major open scientific challenges. This book pays particular attention to self-organization phenomena that might have led to the appearance of the first protocells, i.e. cell-like structures, much simpler than present-day cells, endowed with some primitive kinds of metabolism and heredity. After a brief description of the known facts and main hypotheses, mathematical and computational models of protocells are discussed: they should...

The monograph discusses models of synthetic protocells, which are cell-like structures obtained from non-living matter endowed with some rudimentary kind of metabolism and genetics, but much simpler than biological cells. They should grow and proliferate, generating offsprings that resemble in some way the parent protocells with some variation, so that selection may take place. Sustainable protocell populations have not yet been obtained experimentally and mathematical models are therefore...

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 17th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2023, held in Venice, Italy, during September 6–8, 2023.The 30 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Algorithms for complex systems, Biologically inspired models, Complex chemical systems, Adaptation and swarms, Learning, Medicine and Social s...

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.

Evolution and complexity characterize both biological and artificial life – by direct modeling of biological processes and the creation of populations of interacting entities from which complex behaviors can emerge and evolve.This edited book includes invited chapters from leading scientists in the fields of artificial life, complex systems, and evolutionary computing. The contributions identify both fundamental theoretical issues and state-of-the-art real-world applications.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 11th Italian Workshop on Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation and Systems Chemistry, WIVACE 2016, held at Fisciano, Italy, in October 2016.The 16 full papers together with 1 short papers presented have been thoroughly reviewed and selected from 54 submissions.They cover the following topics: evolutionary computation, bioinspired algorithms, genetic algorithms, bioinformatics and computational biology,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2022, held in Gaeta, Italy, during September 14–16, 2022.The 21 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: answer set programming; networks and complex systems, metaheuristics, robotics, and machine learningChapters 7, 8, and ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2021, held in Winterthur, Switzerland, in September 2022.The 14 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Networks; Droplets, Fluids, and Synthetic Biology; Robot Systems; Computer Vision and Computational Creativity; Semantic Sea...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems (Bionetics 2012), held in Lugano, Switzerland, in December 2012. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They cover topics such as networking, robotics and neural networks, molecular scale and bioinformatics, optimization and bio-inspired modeling in various f...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2016, held in Stirling, UK, in September 2016. The 19 revised full papers and 6 keynotes abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers deal with the application of computational intelligence to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and syntheti...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th InternationalConference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2017, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in June 2017.The 10 full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Graph Algorithms for Computational Biology; Phylogenetics; and Sequence Analysis and Other Biological Processes.

Designed to serve as the first point of reference on the subject, Comprehensive Chemometrics presents an integrated summary of the present state of chemical and biochemical data analysis and manipulation. The work covers all major areas ranging from statistics to data acquisition, analysis, and applications.This major reference work provides broad-ranging, validated summaries of the major topics in chemometrics—with chapter introductions and advanced reviews for each area....