Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, and Systems Chemistry - 11th Italian Workshop, WIVACE 2016, Fisciano, Italy, October 4-6, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

The proceedings contain 17 papers. The special focus in this conference is on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. The topics include: Scale-free networks out of multifractal chaos; GPU-based parallel search of relevant variable sets in complex systems; complexity science for sustainable smart water grids; mapreduce in computational biology - a synopsis; benchmarking spark distributed data structures; automatic design of Boolean networks for cell differentiation; model-based lead molecule design; reducing dimensionality in molecular systems; constraint-based modeling and simulation of cell populations; linking alterations in metabolic fluxes with shifts in metabolite levels by means of kinetic modeling; mathematical modeling in systems biology; synchronization in near-membrane reaction models of protocells; on the employ of time series in the numerical treatment of differential equations modeling oscillatory phenomena and a program for the solution of chemical equilibria among multiple phases