Theory and Practice of Natural Computing First International Confere

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference, TPNC 2012, held in Tarragona, Spain, in October 2012. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 sub

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Adrian-Horia Dediu Carlos Martín-Vide Bianca Truthe (Eds.)

Theory and Practice of Natural Computing First International Conference, TPNC 2012 Tarragona, Spain, October 2-4, 2012 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Adrian-Horia Dediu Universitat Rovira i Virgili Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Avinguda Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Carlos Martín-Vide Universitat Rovira i Virgili Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Avinguda Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Bianca Truthe Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg Fakultät für Informatik Universitätsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 e-ISBN 978-3-642-33860-1 ISBN 978-3-642-33859-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33860-1 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012947810 CR Subject Classification (1998): F.1, I.2, C.2, F.2, I.4, H.4, J.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 1 – Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues

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Preface

These proceedings contain the papers that were presented at the First Int