Hardware implementation of a biomimicking hybrid CA (2018)
Book Chapter
Madikas, M., Tsompanas, M., Dourvas, N., Sirakoulis, G., Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2018). Hardware implementation of a biomimicking hybrid CA. In G. Mauri, S. El Yacoubi, A. Dennunzio, K. Nishinari, & L. Manzoni (Eds.), International Conference on Cellular Automata. Springer Nature

A hybrid model, combining a Cellular Automaton (CA) and a multi-agent system, was proposed to mimic the computation abilities of the plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum. This model was implemented on software, as well as, on hardware, namely on a Fie... Read More about Hardware implementation of a biomimicking hybrid CA.

Phase transitions in swarm optimization algorithms (2018)
Book Chapter
Adamatzky, A. (2018). Phase transitions in swarm optimization algorithms. In S. Stepney, & S. Verlan (Eds.), Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (204-2016). Spinrger

Natural systems often exhibit chaotic behavior in their space-time evolution. Systems transiting between chaos and order manifest a potential to compute, as shown with cellular automata and artificial neural networks. We demonstrate that swarms optim... Read More about Phase transitions in swarm optimization algorithms.

Discovering Boolean gates in slime mould (2018)
Book Chapter
Adamatzky, A. (2018). Discovering Boolean gates in slime mould. In A. Adamatzky (Ed.), Inspired by nature. Springer

Slime mould of Physarum polycephalum is a large cell exhibiting rich spatial non-linear electrical characteristics. We exploit the electrical properties of the slime mould to implement logic gates using a flexible hardware platform designed for inves... Read More about Discovering Boolean gates in slime mould.

Computers from plants (2018)
Book Chapter
Adamatzky, A. (2018). Computers from plants. In A. Adamatzky (Ed.), Inspired by Nature. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67997-6_17

Plants are highly intelligent organisms. They continuously make distributed processing of sensory information, concurrent decision making and parallel actuation. The plants are efficient green computers per se. Outside in nature, the plants are progr... Read More about Computers from plants.

A computation in a cellular automaton collider rule 110 (2016)
Book Chapter
Martinez, G., Adamatzky, A., & McIntosh, H. V. (2016). A computation in a cellular automaton collider rule 110. In A. Adamatzky (Ed.), Advances in Unconventional Computing (391-428). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33924-5_15

A cellular automaton collider is a finite state machine build of rings of one-dimensional cellular automata. We show how a computation can be performed on the collider by exploiting interactions between gliders (particles, localisations). The constru... Read More about A computation in a cellular automaton collider rule 110.

Multi-agent model of slime mould for computing and robotics (2015)
Book Chapter
Jones, J. (2015). Multi-agent model of slime mould for computing and robotics. In A. Adamatzky (Ed.), Atlas of Physarum Computing (35-46). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814675321_0002

Towards lateral inhibition and collective perception in unorganised non-neural systems (2015)
Book Chapter
Jones, J. (2015). Towards lateral inhibition and collective perception in unorganised non-neural systems. In K. Pancerz, & E. Zaitseva (Eds.), Computational Intelligence, Medicine and Biology (103-122). Springer

Cellular automaton manipulator array (2014)
Book Chapter
Georgilas, I., Adamatzky, A., & Melhuish, C. (2014). Cellular automaton manipulator array. In G. Sirakoulis, & A. Adamatzky (Eds.), Robots and Lattice Automata (295-309). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10924-4_13

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) found in urine and stool (2013)
Book Chapter
de Lacy Costello, B., & Ratcliffe, N. M. (2013). Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) found in urine and stool. In A. Amann, & D. Smith (Eds.), Volatile Biomarkers: Non-Invasive Diagnosis in Physiology and Medicine (405-462). Elsevier

Imitation programming unorganised machines (2013)
Book Chapter
Bull, L. (2013). Imitation programming unorganised machines. In X. Yang (Ed.), Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Computing and Metaheuristics: in the Footsteps of Alan Turing (63-81). Springer

In 1948 Alan Turing presented a general representation scheme by which to achieve artificial intelligence – his unorganised machines. Further, at the same time as also suggesting that natural evolution may provide inspiration for search, he noted tha... Read More about Imitation programming unorganised machines.

Toward turing’s A-type unorganised machines in an unconventional substrate: A dynamic representation in compartmentalised excitable chemical media (2013)
Book Chapter
Bull, L., Holley, J., De Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2013). Toward turing’s A-type unorganised machines in an unconventional substrate: A dynamic representation in compartmentalised excitable chemical media. . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37225-4_11

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013. Turing presented a general representation scheme by which to achieve artificial intelligence – unorganised machines. Significantly, these were a form of discrete dynamical system and yet such representations... Read More about Toward turing’s A-type unorganised machines in an unconventional substrate: A dynamic representation in compartmentalised excitable chemical media.

Different behaviour seen in flexible titanium dioxide sol-gel memristors dependent on the choice of electrode material (2012)
Book Chapter
Gale, E., Pearson, D., Kitson, S., Adamatzky, A., & de Lacy Costello, B. (2012). Different behaviour seen in flexible titanium dioxide sol-gel memristors dependent on the choice of electrode material. In J. Heber, D. Schlom, Y. Tokura, R. Waser, & M. Wuttig (Eds.), Technical Digest of Frontiers in Electronic Materials (577-578). Germany: Nature Conferences & Wiley VCH

The memory-conservation model of memristance (2012)
Book Chapter
Gale, E. (2012). The memory-conservation model of memristance. In J. Heber, D. Schlom, Y. Tokura, R. Waser, & M. Wutting (Eds.), Technical Digest of Frontiers in Electronic Materials (538-539). Germany: Nature Conferences & Wiley VCH

Applications of Kauffman’s coevolutionary NKCS model to management and organization studies (2011)
Book Chapter
Vidgen, R., & Bull, L. (2011). Applications of Kauffman’s coevolutionary NKCS model to management and organization studies. In P. Allen, S. Maguire, & B. McKelvey (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Complexity and Management (201-219). SAGE Publications Limited

A number of studies have used tuneable, abstract models of organism evolution like Kauffman's (1993) NK model to capture and explore aspects of organizations and their adaptation in the business environment (eg Levinthal, 1997; Rivkin, 2000; Lenox... Read More about Applications of Kauffman’s coevolutionary NKCS model to management and organization studies.

Computing with planar toppling domino arrangements (2011)
Book Chapter
Stevens, W. (2011). Computing with planar toppling domino arrangements. In C. S. Calude, J. Kari, I. Petre, & G. Rozenberg (Eds.), Unconventional Computation, 10th International Conference, UC 2011 (224-233). Springer

A method for implementing Boolean logic functions using arrangements of toppling dominoes is described. Any desired combinational function can be implemented. A circuit constructed using this method has no timing or order constraints on its inputs an... Read More about Computing with planar toppling domino arrangements.

Towards physarum robots (2011)
Book Chapter
Jones, J., Tsuda, S., & Adamatzky, A. (2011). Towards physarum robots. In Y. Meng, & Y. Jin (Eds.), Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems (215-251). Springer-Verlag

Computation with competing patterns in life-like automaton (2010)
Book Chapter
Martinez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., Morita, K., & Margenstern, M. (2010). Computation with competing patterns in life-like automaton. In A. Adamatzky (Ed.), Game of life cellular automata (547-572). Springer

We study a Life-like cellular automaton rule B2/S2345 where a cell in state `0' takes state `1' if it has exactly two neighbors in state `1' and the cell remains in the state `1' if it has between two and five neighbors in state `1.' This automaton i... Read More about Computation with competing patterns in life-like automaton.

Adapting gosper’s hashlife algorithm for kinematic environments (2010)
Book Chapter
Stevens, W. (2010). Adapting gosper’s hashlife algorithm for kinematic environments. In S. Stepney, P. Welch, P. Andrews, & A. Sampson (Eds.), CoSMoS 2010: Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation (75-91). Frome, UK: Luniver Press

Gosper’s hashlife algorithm is adapted and applied to a three-dimensional kinematic environment by simulating the environment using interleaved simulation periods, each of which can be modeled using a different set of cellular automaton rules. Inform... Read More about Adapting gosper’s hashlife algorithm for kinematic environments.

Reaction-diffusion controllers for robots (2009)
Book Chapter
Adamatzky, A., de Lacy Costello, B., & Yokoi, H. (2009). Reaction-diffusion controllers for robots. In A. Adamatzky, & M. Komosinski (Eds.), Artificial Life Models in Hardware (233-264). London: Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-530-7_11

Excitable systems, particularly spatially extended media, exhibit a wide variety of travelling patterns and different modes of interaction. The Belousov-Zhabo-tinsky [1] (BZ) reaction is the most well known and extensively studied example of non-line... Read More about Reaction-diffusion controllers for robots.

Coevolving cellular automata with memory for chemical computing: Boolean logic gates in the BZ reaction (2008)
Book Chapter
Stone, C., Toth, R., de Lacy Costello, B., Bull, L., & Adamatzky, A. (2008). Coevolving cellular automata with memory for chemical computing: Boolean logic gates in the BZ reaction. In G. Rudolph, T. Jansen, S. M. Lucas, C. Poloni, & N. Beume (Eds.), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN X: 10th International Conference Dortmund, Germany, September 13-17, 2008 (579-588). Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer