Authors* Acknowledgements
Kanae Oda
Tomomi Kimura
Yukiko Matsuoka
Akira Funahashi
Masaaki Muramatsu
Hiroaki Kitano

The authors wish to thank members of the AfCS for insightful discussions and informative and constructive comments. We also thank members of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and the ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project for valuable discussions. This research is, in part, supported by the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) and the Solution-Oriented Research for Science and Technology (SORST) programs (Japan Science and Technology Organization), the NEDO Grant (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization)/Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology and the Center of Excellence Program for Keio University (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology), the Rice Genome and Simulation Project (Ministry of Agriculture), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).

Editors Reviewers
Ashley Brossoie
Duke University, Durham, NC

Gilberto R. Sambrano§
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Henry Bourne
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Adam Arkin
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

*  Please refer to the AfCS policy on authorship.
†  KO and TK equally contributed to this paper.
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