Theory and Practice of Natural Computing : Second International Conference

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference, TPNC 2013, held in Cلceres, Spain, in December 2013. The 19 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on nature-inspired models of computation; synthesizing nature by means of computation; nature-inspired materials and information processing in nature.