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Schlauschleimer in Reichsautobahnen: Slime mould imitates motorway network in Germany (2012)
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Schubert, T., & Adamatzky, A. (2012). Schlauschleimer in Reichsautobahnen: Slime mould imitates motorway network in Germany. Kybernetes, 41(7), 1050-1071. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684921211257865

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop experimental laboratory biological techniques for approximation of principle transport networks, optimizing transport links, and developing optimal solutions to current transport problems. It also aims... Read More about Schlauschleimer in Reichsautobahnen: Slime mould imitates motorway network in Germany.

On architectures of circuits implemented in simulated Belousov-Zhabotinsky droplets (2012)
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Adamatzky, A., Holley, J., Dittrich, P., Gorecki, J., De Lacy Costello, B., Zauner, K. P., & Bull, L. (2012). On architectures of circuits implemented in simulated Belousov-Zhabotinsky droplets. BioSystems, 109(1), 72-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2011.12.007

When lipid vesicles filled with Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) excitable chemical medium are packed in tight assembles, waves of excitation may travel between the vesicles. When several waves meet in a vesicle some fragments may deflect, others can annihi... Read More about On architectures of circuits implemented in simulated Belousov-Zhabotinsky droplets.

Time-dependent wave selection for information processing in excitable media (2012)
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Costello, B. D. L., Stevens, W. M., Adamatzky, A., Jahan, I., & de Lacy Costello, B. (2012). Time-dependent wave selection for information processing in excitable media. Physical Review E, 85(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.066129

We demonstrate an improved technique for implementing logic circuits in light-sensitive chemical excitable media. The technique makes use of the constant-speed propagation of waves along defined channels in an excitable medium based on the Belousov-Z... Read More about Time-dependent wave selection for information processing in excitable media.

Physarum attraction: Why slime mold behaves as cats do? (2012)
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Adamatzky, A. (2012). Physarum attraction: Why slime mold behaves as cats do?. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 5(3), 297-299. https://doi.org/10.4161/cib.19924

We discuss potential chemical substances responsible for attracting acellular slime mold Physarun polycephalum to valerian root. The contributes toward fundamental research into pheromones and chemo-attracts of primitive organisms such as slime molds... Read More about Physarum attraction: Why slime mold behaves as cats do?.

Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum (2012)
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Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2012). Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 7(1), 016009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3182/7/1/016009

The giant single-celled slime mould Physarum polycephalum exhibits complex morphological adaptation and amoeboid movement as it forages for food and may be seen as a minimal example of complex robotic behaviour. Swarm computation has previously been... Read More about Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum.

Towards an intelligent distributed conveyor (2012)
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Georgilas, I., Adamatzky, A., & Melhuish, C. (2012). Towards an intelligent distributed conveyor. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7429, 457-458

Manipulation, orientation and handling of components, subparts and finished products is an essential element of any industrial process, which attracts substantial portion of resources and infrastructure. A classic manipulation, e.g. robot arms, is no... Read More about Towards an intelligent distributed conveyor.

Towards physarum engines (2012)
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Tsuda, S., Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2012). Towards physarum engines. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 9(3), 221-240. https://doi.org/10.3233/ABB-2012-0059

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a suitable candidate organism for soft-matter robotics because it exhibits controllable transport, movement and guidance behaviour. Physarum may be considered as a smart computing and actuating material since... Read More about Towards physarum engines.

Computing with liquid crystal fingers: Models of geometric and logical computation (2011)
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Younger, D., Matranga, M. A., Kitson, S., Adamatzky, A., & de Lacy Costello, B. (2011). Computing with liquid crystal fingers: Models of geometric and logical computation. Physical Review E, 84(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.061702

When a voltage is applied across a thin layer of cholesteric liquid crystal, fingers of cholesteric alignment can form and propagate in the layer. In computer simulation, based on experimental laboratory results, we demonstrate that these cholesteric... Read More about Computing with liquid crystal fingers: Models of geometric and logical computation.

Logical and arithmetic circuits in Belousov-Zhabotinsky encapsulated disks (2011)
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Holley, J., Jahan, I., De Lacy Costello, B., Bull, L., & Adamatzky, A. (2011). Logical and arithmetic circuits in Belousov-Zhabotinsky encapsulated disks. Physical Review E, 84(5), 056110. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.056110

Excitation waves on a subexcitable Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) substrate can be manipulated by chemical variations in the substrate and by interactions with other waves. Symbolic assignment and interpretation of wave dynamics can be used to perform log... Read More about Logical and arithmetic circuits in Belousov-Zhabotinsky encapsulated disks.

On computing in fine-grained compartmentalised Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium (2011)
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Adamatzky, A., Holley, J., Bull, L., & De Lacy Costello, B. (2011). On computing in fine-grained compartmentalised Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 44(10), 779-790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2011.03.010

We introduce results of computer experiments on information processing in a hexagonal array of vesicles filled with Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) solution in a sub-excitable mode. We represent values of Boolean variables by excitation wave-fragments and... Read More about On computing in fine-grained compartmentalised Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium.

Vesicle computers: Approximating a Voronoi diagram using Voronoi automata (2011)
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Adamatzky, A., De Lacy Costello, B., Holley, J., Gorecki, J., & Bull, L. (2011). Vesicle computers: Approximating a Voronoi diagram using Voronoi automata. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 44(7), 480-489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2011.01.016

Irregular arrangements of vesicles filled with excitable and precipitating chemical systems are imitated by Voronoi automata - finite-state machines defined on a planar Voronoi diagram. Every Voronoi cell takes four states: resting, excited, refracto... Read More about Vesicle computers: Approximating a Voronoi diagram using Voronoi automata.

Sounds synthesis with slime mould of Physarum Polycephalum (2011)
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Miranda, E. R., Adamatzky, A., & Jones, J. (2011). Sounds synthesis with slime mould of Physarum Polycephalum. Journal of Bionic Engineering, 8(2), 107-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1672-6529%2811%2960016-4

This paper introduces a novel application of bionic engineering: a bionic musical instrument using Physarum polycephalum. Physarum polycephalum is a huge single cell with thousands of nuclei, which behaves like a giant amoeba. During its foraging beh... Read More about Sounds synthesis with slime mould of Physarum Polycephalum.

On electrical correlates of physarum polycephalum spatial activity: Can we see physarum machine in the dark? (2011)
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Adamatzky, A., & Jones, J. (2011). On electrical correlates of physarum polycephalum spatial activity: Can we see physarum machine in the dark?. Biophysical Reviews and Letters, 6(1-2), 29-57. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793048011001257

Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a single cell visible by unaided eye, which spans sources of nutrients with its protoplasmic network. In a very simple experimental setup we recorded electric potential of the propagating plasmodium. We discover... Read More about On electrical correlates of physarum polycephalum spatial activity: Can we see physarum machine in the dark?.

On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties (2011)
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Adamatzky, A. (2011). On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties. Nature Precedings, https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2011.5985.1

A plasmodium of acellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large single cell with many nuclei. Presented to a configuration of attracting and repelling stimuli a plasmodium optimizes its growth pattern and spans the attractants, while avoiding... Read More about On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties.

Computer scientists build cellular automaton supercollider (2011)
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Martinez, G. J., & Adamatzky, A. (2011). Computer scientists build cellular automaton supercollider. Technology review,

A virtual accelerator that smashes together glider-like particles inside a cellular automaton can perform computations, say researchers.

Cellular automaton supercolliders (2011)
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Martínez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., Stephens, C. R., & Hoeflich, A. F. (2011). Cellular automaton supercolliders. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 22(4), 419-439. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129183111016348

Gliders in one-dimensional cellular automata are compact groups of non-quiescent and non-ether patterns (ether represents a periodic background) translating along automaton lattice. They are cellular automaton analogous of localizations or quasi-loca... Read More about Cellular automaton supercolliders.

Towards constructing one-bit binary adder in excitable chemical medium (2011)
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de Lacy Costello, B., Adamatzky, A., Jahan, I., & Zhang, L. (2011). Towards constructing one-bit binary adder in excitable chemical medium. Chemical Physics, 381(1-3), 88-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2011.01.014

The light-sensitive modification (ruthenium catalysed) of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction exhibits various excitability regimes depending on the level of illumination. Within a narrow range of applied illumination levels the medium is in a sub-exci... Read More about Towards constructing one-bit binary adder in excitable chemical medium.

Computational modalities of Belousov-Zhabotinsky encapsulated vesicles (2011)
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Holley, J., Adamatzky, A., Bull, L., De Lacy Costello, B., & Jahan, I. (2011). Computational modalities of Belousov-Zhabotinsky encapsulated vesicles. Nano Communication Networks, 2(1), 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nancom.2011.02.002

We present both simulated and partial empirical evidences for the computational utility of many connected vesicle analogues of an encapsulated nonlinear chemical processing medium. By connecting small vesicles containing a solution of sub-excitable B... Read More about Computational modalities of Belousov-Zhabotinsky encapsulated vesicles.

Routing physarum with electrical flow/current (2011)
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Tsuda, S., Jones, J., Adamatzky, A., & Mills, J. (2011). Routing physarum with electrical flow/current. International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation, 3(2), 56-70. https://doi.org/10.4018/jnmc.2011040104

Plasmodium stage of Physarum polycephalum behaves as a distributed dynamical pattern formation mechanism, where foraging and migration is influenced by local stimuli from a range of attractants and repellents. Complex protoplasmic tube network struct... Read More about Routing physarum with electrical flow/current.

On polymorphic logical gates in subexcitable chemical medium (2011)
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Adamatzky, A., De Lacy Costello, B., & Bull, L. (2011). On polymorphic logical gates in subexcitable chemical medium. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 21(07), 1977-1986. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127411029574

In a subexcitable light-sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) chemical medium an asymmetric disturbance causes the formation of localized traveling wave-fragments. Under the right conditions these wave-fragments can conserve their shape and velocity ve... Read More about On polymorphic logical gates in subexcitable chemical medium.