Invited Talk -- From Quantum Physics to Programming Languages: A Process Algebraic Approach -- Chemical Computing -- Chemical Computing -- Programming Reaction-Diffusion Processors -- From Prescriptive Programming of Solid-State Devices to Orchestrated Self-organisation of Informed Matter -- Relational Growth Grammars – A Graph Rewriting Approach to Dynamical Systems with a Dynamical Structure -- A New Programming Paradigm Inspired by Artificial Chemistries -- Higher-Order Chemical Programming Style -- Amorphous Computing -- to Amorphous Computing -- Abstractions for Directing Self-organising Patterns -- Programming an Amorphous Computational Medium -- Computations in Space and Space in Computations -- Bio-inspired Computing -- Bio-inspired Computing Paradigms (Natural Computing) -- Inverse Design of Cellular Automata by Genetic Algorithms: An Unconventional Programming Paradigm -- Design, Simulation, and Experimental Demonstration of Self-assembled DNA Nanostructures and Motors -- Membrane Systems: A Quick Introduction -- Cellular Meta-programming over Membranes -- Modelling Dynamically Organised Colonies of Bio-entities -- P Systems: Some Recent Results and Research Problems -- Outlining an Unconventional, Adaptive, and Particle-Based Reconfigurable Computer Architecture -- Autonomic Computing -- Autonomic Computing: An Overview -- Enabling Autonomic Grid Applications: Dynamic Composition, Coordination and Interaction -- Grassroots Approach to Self-management in Large-Scale Distributed Systems -- Autonomic Runtime System for Large Scale Parallel and Distributed Applications -- Generative Programming -- Towards Generative Programming -- Overview of Generative Software Development -- A Comparison of Program Generation with Aspect-Oriented Programming -- Generative Programming from a Post Object-Oriented Programming Viewpoint.

Unconventional approaches to programming have long been developed, in various niches and out of curiosity, and they constitute a reservoir of alternative avenues to deal with unknown programming challenges. New paradigms of programming are currently experiencing a renewed period of interest and growth to cope with problems from specific application domains. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Unconventional Programming Paradigms, UPP 2004, held at Le Mont Saint Michel, France, in September 2004. The 26 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper on quantum computing were carefully reviewed for presentation in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on chemical computing, amorphous computing, bio-inspired computing, autonomic computing, and generative programming.