Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology, Second International Workshop, BioADIT 2006, Osaka, Japan, January 26-27, 2006, Proceedings

Invited Talks.- Design of Synthetic Gene-Metabolic Circuits.- Morphological Computation: Connecting Brain, Body, and Environment.- Single Molecule Nano-Bioscience.- Robotics.- Evolving the Walking Behaviour of a 12 DOF Quadruped Using a Distributed Neural Architecture.- Robot Control: From Silicon Circuitry to Cells.- Networking I.- Proposal and Evaluation of a Cooperative Mechanism for Pure P2P File Sharing Networks.- Resilient Multi-path Routing Based on a Biological Attractor Selection Scheme.- Packet Classification with Evolvable Hardware Hash Functions - An Intrinsic Approach.- Biological Systems.- Emergence of Two Power-Laws in Evolution of Biochemical Network Embedding Abundance Distribution into Topology.- Microbial Interaction in a Symbiotic Bioprocess of Lactic Acid Bacterium and Diary Yeast.- Responses of Fluctuating Biological Systems.- Analysis of Fluctuation in Gene Expression Based on Continuous Culture System.- Self-organization.- Bio-inspired Computing Machines with Self-repair Mechanisms.- Perspectives of Self-adapted Self-organizing Clustering in Organic Computing.- MOVE Processors That Self-replicate and Differentiate.- Evolutionary Computation.- The Evolutionary Emergence of Intrinsic Regeneration in Artificial Developing Organisms.- Evaluation of Fundamental Characteristics of Information Systems Based on Photonic DNA Computing.- Hybrid Concentration-Controlled Direct-Proportional Length-Based DNA Computing for Numerical Optimization of the Shortest Path Problem.- Modeling and Imaging.- Modeling of Trees with Interactive L-System and 3D Gestures.- New Vision Tools from the Comparative Study of an "Old" Psychophysical and a "Modern" Computational Model.- Photonic Information Techniques Based on Compound-Eye Imaging.- Attractor Memory with Self-organizing Input.- Networking II.- Bio-inspired Replica Density Control in Dynamic Networks.- Improving the Robustness of Epidemic Communication in Scale-Free Networks.- On Updated Data Dissemination Exploiting an Epidemic Model in Ad Hoc Networks.- Posters.- Modeling of Epidemic Diffusion in Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Networks.- A High-Throughput Method to Quantify the Structural Properties of Individual Cell-Sized Liposomes by Flow Cytometry.- A User Authentication System Using Schema of Visual Memory.- A Consideration of Application of Attractor Selection to a Real-Time Production Scheduling.- Bio-inspired Organization for Multi-agents on Distributed Systems.- m-ActiveCube Multimedia Extension of Spatial Tangible User Interface.- Biologically Inspired Adaptive Routing by Mimicking Enzymic Feedback Control Mechanism in the Cell.- An Interest-Based Peer Clustering Algorithm Using Ant Paradigm.