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This is just a glimpse to the fruitful and continuous preoccupation of computer science to try to get inspired by biology, at various levels. Besides briefly discussing the main areas of natural computing (genetic algorithms–evolutionary computing, neural computing, DNA computing, and membrane computing), we mention some of the hopes and the difficulties/limits of this enterprise.
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Păun, G. (2005). Bio-inspired Computing Paradigms (Natural Computing). In: Banâtre, JP., Fradet, P., Giavitto, JL., Michel, O. (eds) Unconventional Programming Paradigms. UPP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3566. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527800_12
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