Computing with biological metaphors

Part 1 Cells: From VSLI through machine models to cellular metabolism, Mike Holcombe developing a logical tool to analyze biological regulatory networks, Rene Thomas and Denis Thieffrey the computational machinery of the living cell, Rickey Welch enzymes, automata and artificial cells, Pedro Marijuan the molecular computer, Chris Winter computing dendritic growth, Patrick Hmailton. Part 2 Tissues: the brain as a metaphor for sixth generation computing, Michael Arbib hierarchical search using chemical transmitters in self-organizing pattern recognition architectures, Gail A. Carpenter and Stephen Grossberg fluid neural networks as a model of intelligent biological systems, Frank T. Vertosick the immune learning mechanisms - reinforcement, recruitment and their applications, Hughes Bersini and Francisco J. Varela artificial tissue models, Richard Stark streaming organizations - the tissue automat, Gershom Zajicek. Part 4 Genetics: evolutionary algorithms - comparison of approaches, Thomas Baeck artificial evolution and the paradox of sex, Rob Collins both Wrightian and "parasite" peak shifts enhance genetic algorithm performance in the travelling salesman problem, Brian Sumida and W.D. Hamilton evolution of emergent co-operative behaviour using genetic programming, John Koza an evolutionary approach to designing neural networks, Aviv Bergman. Part 5 Ecology: free the spirit of evolutionary computing - the ecological genetic algorithm approach, Yuval Davidor the ecology of computation, Bernardo A. Huberman an ecological analysis of a system for detecting nods of the head, Ian Horswill socio-ecological metaphors and autonomous agents, Geof Staniford. Part 6 Theoretical and conceptual issues: the importance of selectionist systems for cognition, Bernard Manderick life-like computing beyond the machine metaphor, George Kampis nature's machine - mimesis, the analog computer and the rhetoric of technology, James Nyce. Conclusion: computing with biological metaphors - some conceptual issues, Ray Paton.