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Fundamentals of natural computing: an overview

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This paper provides an overview of the fundamentals of natural computing, particularly the fields listed above, emphasizing the biological motivation, some design principles, their scope of applications, current research trends and open problems.
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This article is published in Physics of Life Reviews.The article was published on 2007-03-01. It has received 278 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Natural computing & Bio-inspired computing.

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The computational brain: Patricia S. Churchland and Terrence J. Sejnowski (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992); xi, 544 pages, $39.95

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Plenary lecture VIII: toward physics of the mind: concepts, emotions, consciousness, and symbols

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Recent advances in engineering design optimisation: Challenges and future trends

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TL;DR: The development and evolution of different topics related to neural networks is described showing that the field has acquired maturity and consolidation, proven by its competitiveness in solving real-world problems.
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Nature Inspired Computing: An Overview and Some Future Directions

TL;DR: An overview of significant advances made in the emerging field of nature-inspired computing with a focus on the physics- and biology-based approaches and algorithms is presented.
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