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On hybrid circuits exploiting thermistive properties of slime mould (2016)
Journal Article
Walter, X. A., Horsfield, I., Mayne, R., Ieropoulos, I. A., & Adamatzky, A. (2016). On hybrid circuits exploiting thermistive properties of slime mould. Scientific Reports, 6(23924), https://doi.org/10.1038/srep23924

Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a single cell visible by the unaided eye. Let the slime mould span two electrodes with a single protoplasmic tube: if the tube is heated to approximately ≈40 °C, the electrical resistance of the protoplasmic tube... Read More about On hybrid circuits exploiting thermistive properties of slime mould.

Emergent behaviors in a bio-inspired platform controlled by a physical cellular automata cluster (2016)
Journal Article
Assaf, T., Mayne, R., Adamatzky, A., & Melhuish, C. (2016). Emergent behaviors in a bio-inspired platform controlled by a physical cellular automata cluster. Biomimetics, 1(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics1010005

This work illustrates behavior patterns and trajectories of a bio-inspired artificial platform induced by a cellular automata (CA)-based control strategy. The platform embeds both CA control as physical electronic architecture and a distributed hardw... Read More about Emergent behaviors in a bio-inspired platform controlled by a physical cellular automata cluster.

Transition dynamics to complex rules in elementary cellular automata from Wolfram classes (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Delgado, E. M., Martinez, G., & Adamatzky, A. (2015, November). Transition dynamics to complex rules in elementary cellular automata from Wolfram classes. Poster presented at 1era Semana de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Mexico City, Mexico

We overview the basis of Elementary Cellular Automata and Wolfram’s Classes, subsequently we show a technique known as Memory Based Rule Analysis, to extract complex systems from a family of chaotic discrete dynamical system. Cases of study rules 30... Read More about Transition dynamics to complex rules in elementary cellular automata from Wolfram classes.

Swarm of robots simulator (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Barrera, R. G. C., Martinez, G., Oliva Moreno, L. N., & Adamatzky, A. (2015, November). Swarm of robots simulator. Poster presented at 1era Semana de las Ciencias de la Complejidad, Mexico City, Mexico

If a robot can perform a specific task by itself... Can you imagine the work that can be done by hundreds of robots working all together?. Swarms have emerged as a way to assimilate the behavior of nature like insects, school of fish or flocks; becau... Read More about Swarm of robots simulator.

Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould (2015)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A. I., Sirakoulis, G. C., Georgilas, I. P., Papadopoulos, D. P., Kalogeiton, V. S., Kalogeiton, V., …Adamatzky, A. (2015). Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould. International Journal of General Systems, 44(3), 354-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/03081079.2014.997527

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In all the living organisms, the self-preservation behaviour is almost universal. Even the most simple of living organisms, like slime mould, is typically under intense selective pressure to evolve a response to ensure thei... Read More about Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould.

Designing complex dynamics in cellular automata with memory (2013)
Journal Article
Martínez, G. J., Martinez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., & Alonso-Sanz, R. (2013). Designing complex dynamics in cellular automata with memory. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 23(10), 1330035. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127413300358

Since their inception at Macy conferences in later 1940s, complex systems have remained the most controversial topic of interdisciplinary sciences. The term "complex system" is the most vague and liberally used scientific term. Using elementary cellu... Read More about Designing complex dynamics in cellular automata with memory.

Bio-development of motorway network in the Netherlands: A slime mould approach (2013)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A., Lees, M., & Sloot, P. (2013). Bio-development of motorway network in the Netherlands: A slime mould approach. Advances in Complex Systems, 16(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219525912500348

Plasmodium of a cellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a very large eukaryotic microbe visible to the unaided eye. During its foraging behavior the plasmodium spans sources of nutrients with a network of protoplasmic tubes. In this paper we at... Read More about Bio-development of motorway network in the Netherlands: A slime mould approach.

Complex dynamics of elementary cellular automata emerging from chaotic rules (2012)
Journal Article
Martínez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., & Alonso-Sanz, R. (2012). Complex dynamics of elementary cellular automata emerging from chaotic rules. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.1142/S021812741250023X

We show techniques of analyzing complex dynamics of cellular automata (CA) with chaotic behavior. CA are well-known computational substrates for studying emergent collective behavior, complexity, randomness and interaction between order and chaotic s... Read More about Complex dynamics of elementary cellular automata emerging from chaotic rules.

Comparison of ant-inspired gatherer allocation approaches using memristor-based environmental models (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Gale, E., de Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2011, December). Comparison of ant-inspired gatherer allocation approaches using memristor-based environmental models. Paper presented at Bioadcom 2011 Workshop on Bio-inspired Approaches to Advanced Computing and Communications (BioAdcom2011), York, England

Memristors are used to compare three gathering techniques in an already-mapped environment where resource locations are known. The All Site model, which apportions gatherers based on the modeled memristance of that path, proves to be good at increasi... Read More about Comparison of ant-inspired gatherer allocation approaches using memristor-based environmental models.

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.

Operating binary strings using gliders and eaters in reaction-diffusion cellular automaton (2010)
Journal Article
Martínez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., Zhang, L., & Wuensche, A. (2010). Operating binary strings using gliders and eaters in reaction-diffusion cellular automaton. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 52(1-2), 177-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2010.02.006

We study transformations of 2-, 4- and 6-bit numbers in interactions between traveling and stationary localizations in the Spiral Rule reaction-diffusion cellular automaton. The Spiral Rule automaton is a hexagonal ternary-state two-dimensional cellu... Read More about Operating binary strings using gliders and eaters in reaction-diffusion cellular automaton.

Majority adder implementation by competing patterns in life-like rule B2/S2345 (2010)
Journal Article
Martinez, G. J., Morita, K., Adamatzky, A., & Margenstern, M. (2010). Majority adder implementation by competing patterns in life-like rule B2/S2345. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6079, 93-104

In this paper we present a two-dimensional chaotic cellular automaton, the Life rule B2/S2345, able to simulate the action of an adder with majority gates, stimulated by gliders collisions transformed as competing patterns. Values of Boolean variable... Read More about Majority adder implementation by competing patterns in life-like rule B2/S2345.

Localization dynamics in a binary two-dimensional cellular automaton: The Diffusion Rule (2010)
Journal Article
Martinez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., & McIntosh, H. V. (2010). Localization dynamics in a binary two-dimensional cellular automaton: The Diffusion Rule. Journal of Cellular Automata, 5(4-5), 289-313

We study a two-dimensional cellular automaton (CA), called Diffusion Rule (DR), which exhibits diffusion-like dynamics of propagating patterns. In computational experiments we discover a wide range of mobile and stationary localizations (gliders, osc... Read More about Localization dynamics in a binary two-dimensional cellular automaton: The Diffusion Rule.

On generative morphological diversity of elementary cellular automata (2010)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A., & Martinez, G. J. (2010). On generative morphological diversity of elementary cellular automata. Kybernetes, 39(1), 72-82. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684921011021282

Purpose: Studies in complexity of cellular automata do usually deal with measures taken on integral dynamics or statistical measures of space-time configurations. No one has tried to analyze a generative power of cellular-automaton machines. The purp... Read More about On generative morphological diversity of elementary cellular automata.

How to make dull cellular automata complex by adding memory: Rule 126 case study (2010)
Journal Article
Seck-Tuoh-Mora, J. C., Martínez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., Mora, J. C., & Alonso-Sanz, R. (2010). How to make dull cellular automata complex by adding memory: Rule 126 case study. Complexity, 15(6), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.20311

Using Rule 126 elementary cellular automaton (ECA), we demonstrate that a chaotic discrete system - when enriched with memory - hence exhibits complex dynamics where such space exploits on an ample universe of periodic patterns induced from original... Read More about How to make dull cellular automata complex by adding memory: Rule 126 case study.

Complex dynamics emerging in Rule 30 with majority memory (2010)
Journal Article
Martinez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., Alonso-Sanz, R., & Mora, J. C. (2010). Complex dynamics emerging in Rule 30 with majority memory. Complex Systems -Champaign-, 18(3), 345-365

In cellular automata with memory, the unchanged maps of the conventional cellular automata are applied to cells endowed with memory of their past states in some specified interval. We implement Rule 30 automata with a majority memory and show that usi... Read More about Complex dynamics emerging in Rule 30 with majority memory.

Localizations in cellular automata with mutualistic excitation rules (2009)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A. (2009). Localizations in cellular automata with mutualistic excitation rules. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 40(2), 981-1003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2007.08.085

Every cell of two-dimensional cellular automaton with eight-cell neighborhood takes three states: resting, excited and refractory, and updates excited to refractory and refractory to resting states unconditionally. A resting cell excites depending on... Read More about Localizations in cellular automata with mutualistic excitation rules.