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Dynamics of excitation in F-actin: Automaton model (2024)
Book Chapter
Adamatzky, A. (in press). Dynamics of excitation in F-actin: Automaton model. In Actin Computation (105-122). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811285073_0005

We propose a model called the F-actin automaton, which represents a filamentous actin molecule as a graph of finite state machines. Each node in the graph can be in one of three states: resting, excited, or refractory. The states of all nodes are upd... Read More about Dynamics of excitation in F-actin: Automaton model.

Conventional non-computing and unconventional musical signal processing (2022)
Book Chapter
Baracskai, Z. (2022). Conventional non-computing and unconventional musical signal processing. In A. Adamatzky (Ed.), Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy (339-365). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811257155_0020

As the scepsis maintains its lead in scientific enquiry giving birth to unconventional computing, one must poke at the newborn as well. By manipulating the terms convention and computing, challenges are posed to their meaning in the contemporary cont... Read More about Conventional non-computing and unconventional musical signal processing.

A haploid-diploid evolutionary algorithm optimizing nanoparticle based cancer treatments (2022)
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This paper uses a recent explanation for the fundamental haploid-diploid lifecycle of eukaryotic organisms to present a new evolutionary algorithm that differs from all previous known work using diploid representations. A form of the Baldwin effect h... Read More about A haploid-diploid evolutionary algorithm optimizing nanoparticle based cancer treatments.

Robot narratives (2021)
Book Chapter
Orell, M. S., Bown, J., Stepney, S., Walsh, R., & Winfield, A. F. T. (2021). Robot narratives. In A. Adamatzky (Ed.), Handbook of Unconventional Computing Volume 1: Theory (221-246). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811235726_0006

There is evidence that humans understand how the world goes through narrative. We discuss what it might mean for embodied robots to understand the world, and communicate that understanding, in a similar manner. We suggest an architecture for adding n... Read More about Robot narratives.

Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City Infrastructures with Slime Mould (2019)
Book Chapter
Dillon, T. (2019). Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City Infrastructures with Slime Mould. . River Publishers

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum optimises its shape in a geometrically constrained space. We explore this property in order to reconsider how we could develop more inclusive, interspecies approaches to urban planning and infrastructure. Working... Read More about Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City Infrastructures with Slime Mould.

Phase transitions in swarm optimization algorithms (2018)
Book Chapter

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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Cellular automaton manipulator array (2014)
Book Chapter

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

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.

Artificial symbiosis in EcoBots (2009)
Book Chapter
Ieropoulos, I. A., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Horsfield, I. (2009). Artificial symbiosis in EcoBots. In A. Adamatzky, & M. Komosinski (Eds.), Artificial Life Models in Hardware (185-211). London: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-530-7_9

Truly autonomous robotic systems will be required to abstract energy from the environment in order to function. Energetic autonomy refers to the ability of an agent, to maintain itself in a viable state for long periods of time. Its behaviour must be... Read More about Artificial symbiosis in EcoBots.

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

Computation by competing patterns: life rule B2/S2345678 (2008)
Book Chapter
Martinez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., McIntosh, H. V., & de Lacy Costello, B. (2008). Computation by competing patterns: life rule B2/S2345678. In A. Adamatzky, R. Alonso-Sanz, A. Lawniczak, G. J. Martinez, K. Morita, & T. Worsch (Eds.), Automata 2008: Theory and Applications of Cellular Automata (356-367). Frome: Luniver Press

Patterns, originating from different sources of perturbations, propagating in a precipitating chemical medium do usually compete for the space. They sub-divide the medium onto the regions unique for an initial configuration of disturbances. This sub-... Read More about Computation by competing patterns: life rule B2/S2345678.

Towards machine learning control of chemical computers (2006)
Book Chapter
Budd, A., Stone, C., Masere, J., Adamatzky, A., de Lacy Costello, B., & Bull, L. (2006). Towards machine learning control of chemical computers. In A. Adamatzky, & C. Teuscher (Eds.), From Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers (17-36). Frome, UK: Luniver Press