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Abstract
The goal of the authors is adroit integration of three mainstream disciplines of the natural sciences, physics, chemistry and biology to create novel problem solving paradigms. This paper presents a brief history of the development of the natural sciences and highlights some milestones which subsequently influenced many branches of science, engineering and computing as a prelude to nature-inspired computing which has captured the imagination of computing researchers in the past three decades. The idea is to summarize the massive body of knowledge in a single paper succinctly. The paper is organised into three main sections: developments in physics, developments in chemistry, and developments in biology. Examples of recently-proposed computing approaches inspired by the three branches of natural sciences are provided.
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Nazmul Siddique
Nazmul SIDDIQUE. He is a Lecturer in the School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster. He obtained Dipl.-Ing. degree in Cybernetics from the Dresden University of Technology, Germany, MSc in Computer Science from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and PhD in Intelligent Control from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, England. His research interests include: cybernetics, computational intelligence, bio-inspired computing, stochastic systems and vehicular communication. He has published over 130 research papers in the broad area of cybernetics, intelligent control, computational intelligence and robotics including three books. He guest edited eight special issues of reputed journals on Cybernetic Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Neural Networks and Robotics. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a senior member of IEEE and member of different committees of IEEE SMC Society and UK-RI Chapter. He has been involved in organising many national and international conferences and co-edited seven conference proceedings. He is on the editorial board of seven international journals including Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Automation and Control Engineering. He secured funding from DEL, DAAD, EU FP7-ICT and Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
Hojjat Adeli
Hojjat ADELI. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1976 at the age of 26. He is Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, and by courtesy Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Informatics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neuroscience, and Neurology at The Ohio State University. He has authored over 530 research and scientific publications in various fields of computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, and medicine including 15 books. In 1998 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award, from The Ohio State University “in recognition of extraordinary accomplishment in research and scholarship”. He is the recipient of numerous other awards and honors such as The Ohio State University College of Engineering Lumley Outstanding Research Award (quadruple winner); Peter L. and Clara M. Scott Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, and Charles E. MacQuigg Outstanding Teaching Award, the 2012 IEEE-EMBS Outstanding Paper Award (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society), a Special Medal from The Polish Neural Network Society in Recognition of Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Computational Intelligence, Eduardo Renato Caianiello Award for Excellence in Scientific Research from the Italian Society of Neural Networks and an Honorary Doctorate from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania. He is a Distinguished Member of ASCE, and a Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, AIMBE, and American Neurological Association.