This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Unconventional
Computation and Natural Computation UCNC 2017 held in Fayetteville AR USA in June 2017. The
14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions.
The UCNC series of international conferences is genuinely interdisciplinary and it covers
theory as well as experiments and applications. It is concerned with various proposals for
computation that go beyond the Turing model human designed computation inspired by nature and
with the computational nature of processes taking place in nature. Typical but not exclusive
topics are: hypercomputation chaos and dynamical systems based computing granular fuzzy and
rough computing mechanical computing cellular evolutionary molecular neural and quantum
computing membrane computing amorphous computing swarm intelligence artificial immune
systems physics of computation chemical computation evolving hardware the computational
nature of self-assembly developmental processes bacterial communication and brain processes.
