All Outputs (21)

On chirality of slime mould (2015)
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Levin, M., Erokhin, V., Dimonte, A., & Adamatzky, A. (2016). On chirality of slime mould. BioSystems, 140, 23-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.12.008

© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Left-right patterning and lateralised behaviour is an ubiquitous aspect of plants and animals. The mechanisms linking cellular chirality to the large-scale asymmetry of multicellular structures are incompletely understood... Read More about On chirality of slime mould.

On the computing potential of intracellular vesicles (2015)
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Mayne, R., & Adamatzky, A. (2015). On the computing potential of intracellular vesicles. PLoS ONE, 10(10), e0139617. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139617

© 2015 Mayne, Adamatzky. Collision-based computing (CBC) is a form of unconventional computing in which travelling localisations represent data and conditional routing of signals determines the output state; collisions between localisations represent... Read More about On the computing potential of intracellular vesicles.

Building exploration with leeches Hirudo verbana (2015)
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Sirakoulis, G. C., Adamatzky, A., & Sirakoulis, G. C. (2015). Building exploration with leeches Hirudo verbana. BioSystems, 134, 48-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.06.004

© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Safe evacuation of people from building and outdoor environments, and search and rescue operations, always will remain actual in course of all socio-technological developments. Modern facilities offer a range of automated... Read More about Building exploration with leeches Hirudo verbana.

The effect of changing electrode metal on solution-processed flexible titanium dioxide memristors (2015)
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Gale, E., Pearson, D., Kitson, S., Adamatzky, A., & De Lacy Costello, B. (2015). The effect of changing electrode metal on solution-processed flexible titanium dioxide memristors. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 162, 20-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2015.03.037

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Abstract Flexible solution-processed memristors show different behaviour dependent on the choice of electrode material. Use of gold for both electrodes leads to switchable WORM (Write Once Read Many times) resistive devices. Use... Read More about The effect of changing electrode metal on solution-processed flexible titanium dioxide memristors.

A biologically inspired network design model (2015)
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Zhang, X., Adamatzky, A., Chan, F. T., Deng, Y., Yang, H., Yang, X. S., …Mahadevan, S. (2015). A biologically inspired network design model. Scientific Reports, 5, Article 10794. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep10794

A network design problem is to select a subset of links in a transport network that satisfy passengers or cargo transportation demands while minimizing the overall costs of the transportation. We propose a mathematical model of the foraging behaviour... Read More about A biologically inspired network design model.

Slime mould imitates development of Roman roads in the Balkans (2015)
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Sirakoulis, G. C., Tsompanas, M. A., Evangelidis, V., & Adamatzky, A. (2015). Slime mould imitates development of Roman roads in the Balkans. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.02.005

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Due to its unexpected computing abilities, Physarum polycephalum, a vegetative stage of acellular slime, has been repeatedly used during the last decade in order to reproduce transport networks. After conducting a series of biolo... Read More about Slime mould imitates development of Roman roads in the Balkans.

Quantitative transformation for implementation of adder circuits in physical systems (2015)
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Jones, J., Whiting, J. G. H., & Adamatzky, A. (2015). Quantitative transformation for implementation of adder circuits in physical systems. BioSystems, 134, 16-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.05.005

© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Computing devices are composed of spatial arrangements of simple fundamental logic gates. These gates may be combined to form more complex adding circuits and, ultimately, complete computer systems. Implementing classical... Read More about Quantitative transformation for implementation of adder circuits in physical systems.

On exploration of geometrically constrained space by medicinal leeches Hirudo verbana (2015)
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Adamatzky, A. (2015). On exploration of geometrically constrained space by medicinal leeches Hirudo verbana. BioSystems, 130, 28-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.02.005

© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Leeches are fascinating creatures: they have simple modular nervous circuitry yet exhibit a rich spectrum of behavioural modes. Leeches could be ideal blue-prints for designing flexible soft robots which are modular, mult... Read More about On exploration of geometrically constrained space by medicinal leeches Hirudo verbana.

Slime mould memristors (2015)
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Gale, E., Adamatzky, A., & de Lacy Costello, B. (2015). Slime mould memristors. BioNanoScience, 5(1), 1-8

In laboratory experiments we demonstrate that protoplasmic tubes of acellular slime mould \emph{Physarum polycephalum} show current versus voltage profiles consistent with memristive systems and that the effect is due to the living protoplasm of the... Read More about Slime mould memristors.

Towards a slime Mould-FPGA interface (2015)
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Mayne, R., Tsompanas, M. A., Sirakoulis, G. C., & Adamatzky, A. (2015). Towards a slime Mould-FPGA interface. Biomedical Engineering Letters, 5(1), 51-57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13534-015-0173-3

© 2015, Korean Society of Medical and Biological Engineering and Springer. Purpose: The plasmodium of slime mouldPhysarum polycephalum: is a multinucleate single celled organism which behaves as a living amorphous unconventional computing substrate.... Read More about Towards a slime Mould-FPGA interface.

Actin quantum automata: Communication and computation in molecular networks (2015)
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Siccardi, S., & Adamatzky, A. (2015). Actin quantum automata: Communication and computation in molecular networks. Nano Communication Networks, 6(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nancom.2015.01.002

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Actin is filament-forming protein forming a communication and information processing cytoskeletal network of eukaryotic cells. Actin filaments play a key role in developing synaptic structure, memory and leaning of animals and hu... Read More about Actin quantum automata: Communication and computation in molecular networks.

Transfer function of protoplasmic tubes of Physarum polycephalum (2015)
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de Lacy Costello, B. P., Whiting, J. G. H., de Lacy Costello, B., & Adamatzky, A. (2015). Transfer function of protoplasmic tubes of Physarum polycephalum. BioSystems, 128, 48-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.01.009

© 2015. The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large single celled myxomycete; its plasmodium consists of tubes which extend to find sources of food. It has been previously shown that the tubes are conductive with a resistance of approximately 3.... Read More about Transfer function of protoplasmic tubes of Physarum polycephalum.

On using compressibility to detect when slime mould completed computation (2015)
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Adamatzky, A., & Jones, J. (2016). On using compressibility to detect when slime mould completed computation. Complexity, 21(5), 162-175. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21645

© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a single cell visible by an unaided eye. The slime mould optimizes its network of protoplasmic tubes in gradients of attractants and repellents. This behavior is interpreted as compu... Read More about On using compressibility to detect when slime mould completed computation.

Physarum polycephalum: Towards a biological controller (2015)
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Taylor, B., Adamatzky, A., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Physarum polycephalum: Towards a biological controller. BioSystems, 127, 42-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2014.10.005

© 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Microbial fuels cells (MFCs) are bio-electrochemical transducers that generate energy from the metabolism of electro-active microorganisms. The organism Physarum polycephalum is a slime mould, which has demonstrated many... Read More about Physarum polycephalum: Towards a biological controller.

Twenty five uses of slime mould in electronics and computing: Survey (2015)
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Adamatzky, A. (2015). Twenty five uses of slime mould in electronics and computing: Survey. International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 11(5-6), 449-471

Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large single cell capable for distributed sensing, concurrent information processing, parallel computation and decentralised actuation. The ease of culturing and experimenting with Physarum makes this slime moul... Read More about Twenty five uses of slime mould in electronics and computing: Survey.

Approximation of statistical analysis and estimation by morphological adaptation in a model of slime mould (2015)
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Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2015). Approximation of statistical analysis and estimation by morphological adaptation in a model of slime mould. International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 11(1), 37-62

True slime mould Physarum polycephalum approximates a range of complex computations via growth and adaptation of its protoplasmic transport network, stimulating a large body of recent research into how such a simple organism can perform such complex... Read More about Approximation of statistical analysis and estimation by morphological adaptation in a model of slime mould.

Biomimicry of crowd evacuation with a slime mould cellular automaton model (2015)
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Adamatzky, A. I., Sirakoulis, G. C., Georgilas, I. P., Papadopoulos, D. P., Kalogeiton, V. S., Kalogeiton, V., …Adamatzky, A. (2015). Biomimicry of crowd evacuation with a slime mould cellular automaton model. Studies in Computational Intelligence, 600, 123-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16844-9_7

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Evacuation is an imminent movement of people away from sources of danger. Evacuation in highly structured environments, e.g. building, requires advance planning and large-scale control. Finding a... Read More about Biomimicry of crowd evacuation with a slime mould cellular automaton model.

Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould (2015)
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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.

On the dynamics of cellular automata with memory (2015)
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Martínez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., & Alonso-Sanz, R. (2015). On the dynamics of cellular automata with memory. Fundamenta Informaticae, 138(1-2), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3233/FI-2015-1194

Elementary cellular automata (ECA) are linear arrays of finite-state machines (cells) which take binary states, and update their states simultaneously depending on states of their closest neighbours. We design and study ECA with memory (ECAM), where... Read More about On the dynamics of cellular automata with memory.

Slime mould foraging behaviour as optically coupled logical operations (2015)
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Adamatzky, A., Mayne, R., Mayne, R., & Adamatzky, A. (2015). Slime mould foraging behaviour as optically coupled logical operations. International Journal of General Systems, 44(3), 305-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/03081079.2014.997528

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Physarum polycephalum is a macroscopic plasmodial slime mould whose apparently 'intelligent' behaviour patterns may be interpreted as computation. We employ plasmodial phototactic responses to construct laboratory prototype... Read More about Slime mould foraging behaviour as optically coupled logical operations.