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19% for Germany, 20% for Austria. All prices exclusive of carriage charges. Prices and other details are subject to change without notice. All errors and omissions excepted. Y. Suzuki, T. Nakagaki (Eds.) Natural Computing and Beyond Winter School Hakodate 2011, Hakodate, Japan, March

2011 and 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing, Tokyo, Japan, March 2012, Proceedings Series: Proceedings in Information and Communications Technology, Vol.

6 ? Provides access to various cutting-edge aspects of natural computing ? Included position papers give direction of future direction of natural computing;

"Co-Evolution of Information, Life and Artificial Life" and "harness the nature for computing" ? Includes newly lunched research area, Computational Aesthetics: "understanding beauty as computation" This book contains the joint proceedings of the Winter School of Hakodate (WSH)

2011 held in Hakodate, Japan, March 15C16, 2011, and the 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing (6th IWNC) held in Tokyo, Japan, March 28C30, 2012, organized by the Special Interest Group of Natural Computing (SIG-NAC), the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). This volume compiles refereed contributions to various aspects of natural computing, ranging from computing with slime mold, artificial chemistry, eco- physics, and synthetic biology, to computational aesthetics.