1. How ciliates manipulate their own DNA – A splendid example of natural computing

   • David M. Prescott
   • Grzegorz Rozenberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 183

2. Topography as a property of the natural sensory world

   • Aapo Hyvärinen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 198

3. Realizations of quantum computing using optical manipulations of atoms

   • Päivi Töormä

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 209

4. Classifiers that approximate functions

   • Stewart W. Wilson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 234

5. Recent approaches to global optimization problems through Particle Swarm Optimization

   • K.E. Parsopoulos
   • M.N. Vrahatis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 306

6. Parallel evolutionary training algorithms for “hardware-friendly” neural networks

   • Vassilis P. Plagianakos
   • Michael N. Vrahatis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 307 - 322

7. Instructions for authors

   Instructions for Authors Pages: 323 - 329