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Natural Computing is a general term referring to computing going on in nature and computing inspired by nature. When complex phenomena going on in nature are viewed as computational processes, our understanding of these phenomena and of the essence of computation is enhanced. In this way one gains valuable insights into both natural sciences and computer science. Characteristic for man-designed computing inspired by nature is the metaphorical use of concepts, principles and mechanisms underlying natural systems. This type of computing includes evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, molecular computing and quantum computing. 

The aim of the journal is (1) to provide a publication forum for, and to foster links and mutual understanding between researchers from various areas of natural computing, (2) to give researchers in natural sciences and computer science an insight into research trends in natural computing. The research in natural computing is concerned with theory, experiments, and applications, and the journal reports on each of these research lines. Moreover, the journal will cover natural computing in a very broad scope. Thus, e.g., the subarea of evolutionary algorithms will cover also very active research on the boundary of biology and computer science which views the evolution as a computational process, and the subarea of neural networks will also cover computational trends in brain research.

The journal is soliciting papers on all aspects of natural computing. Because of the interdisciplinary character of the journal a special effort will be made to solicit survey, review, and tutorial papers which would make research trends in a given subarea more accessible to the broad audience of the journal.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Joost N. Kok, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
MOLECULAR COMPUTING
Area Editor: Lila Kari, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Editors:
Masami Hagiya, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Nataša Jonoska, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Natalio Krasnogor, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Gheorghe Paun, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Ion Petre, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Nadrian C. Seeman, New York University, New York, NY, USA
EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING
Area Editor: Thomas Bäck, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands
Editors:
Benjamin Doerr, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
David Corne, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
A.E. (Gusz) Eiben, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kenneth De Jong, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Natalio Krasnogor, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Elena Marchiori, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Julian Miller, University of York, York, United Kingdom
Jon Rowe, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Hans-Paul Schwefel, Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Yuhui Shi, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Ke Tang, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Daniel Tauritz, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA
Mengjie Zhang, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
NEURAL COMPUTING
Area Editor: Erkki Oja, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Editors:
Hussein Abbass, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Vladimir Cherkassky, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Péter Érdi, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, USA and Budapest, Hungary
Bert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Jose Principe, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Helge Ritter, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Alessandro Sperduti, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Carme Torras, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
QUANTUM COMPUTING
Area Editor: Mika Hirvensalo, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Editors:
Jacob Biamonte, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
Gilles Brassard, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Gilles Dowek, Inria, Paris, France
Renato Portugal, National Laboratory of Scientific Computing (LNCC), Petropolis, Brazil
Kalle-Antti Suominen, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
CELLULAR AUTOMATA
Area Editor: Jarkko Kari, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Editors:
Bastien Chopard, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Alberto Dennunzio, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Enrico Formenti, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
Klaus Sutner, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Thomas Worsch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
BROADER PERSPECTIVE
Editors:
Christian Blum, Spanish National Research Council, Bellaterra, Spain
Heiko Hamann, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany
Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany
Maciej Koutny, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Jonathan Timmis, University of York, York, United Kingdom
Mario de Jesús Pérez Jiménez, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
Przemysław Prusinkiewicz, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
Andrzej Skowron, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Susan Stepney, University of York, York, United Kingdom
Dirk Sudholt, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
FOUDING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Grzegorz Rozenberg, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands