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On exploration of geometrically constrained space by medicinal leeches Hirudo verbana (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

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.

On the role of the plasmodial cytoskeleton in facilitating intelligent behavior in slime mold physarum polycephalum (2015)
Journal Article
Mayne, R., Adamatzky, A., & Jones, J. (2015). On the role of the plasmodial cytoskeleton in facilitating intelligent behavior in slime mold physarum polycephalum. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 8(4), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2015.1059007

© Richard Mayne, Andrew Adamatzky, and Jeff Jones. The plasmodium of slime mold Physarum polycephalum behaves as an amorphous reaction-diffusion computing substrate and is capable of apparently ‘intelligent’ behavior. But how does intelligence emerge... Read More about On the role of the plasmodial cytoskeleton in facilitating intelligent behavior in slime mold physarum polycephalum.

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.

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.

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.

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)
Journal Article
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.

A bio-inspired algorithm for identification of critical components in the transportation networks (2014)
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Zhang, X., Adamatzky, A., Yang, H., Mahadaven, S., Yang, X. S., Wang, Q., & Deng, Y. (2014). A bio-inspired algorithm for identification of critical components in the transportation networks. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 248, 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2014.09.055

© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Critical components in a transportation or communication network are those which should be better protected or secured because their removal has a significant impact on the whole network. In such networks, th... Read More about A bio-inspired algorithm for identification of critical components in the transportation networks.

The Physarum polycephalum actin network: Formalisation, topology and morphological correlates with computational ability (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Mayne, R., & Adamatzky, A. (2014, December). The Physarum polycephalum actin network: Formalisation, topology and morphological correlates with computational ability. Presented at BICT 2014, Boston, USA

The plasmodial form of slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a macroscopic acellular organism that is capable of apparently intelligent behaviour, yet it lacks any features usually associated with intelligence. In this investigation, we study the morp... Read More about The Physarum polycephalum actin network: Formalisation, topology and morphological correlates with computational ability.

Supplier selection based on evidence theory and analytic network process (2014)
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Mahadevan, S., Chan, F. T., Deng, Y., Zhang, X., & Adamatzky, A. (2016). Supplier selection based on evidence theory and analytic network process. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 230(3), 562-573. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954405414551105

© IMechE 2014. The supplier selection is a key component of the supply chain management. Existing methods for the supplier selection are based on analytic network process. They can handle the interdependence of decision attributes; however, these met... Read More about Supplier selection based on evidence theory and analytic network process.

Complete characterization of structure of rule 54 (2014)
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Martinez, G. J., Adamatzky, A., & McIntosh, H. V. (2014). Complete characterization of structure of rule 54. Complex Systems -Champaign-, 23(3), 259-293

The dynamics of rule 54 one-dimensional two-state cellular automaton (CA) are a discrete analog of a space-time dynamics of excitations in nonlinear active medium with mutual inhibition. A cell switches its state 0 to state 1 if one of its two neighb... Read More about Complete characterization of structure of rule 54.

Material approximation of data smoothing and spline curves inspired by slime mould (2014)
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Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2014). Material approximation of data smoothing and spline curves inspired by slime mould. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 9(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3182/9/3/036016

The giant single-celled slime mould Physarum polycephalum is known to approximate a number of network problems via growth and adaptation of its protoplasmic transport network and can serve as an inspiration towards unconventional, material-based comp... Read More about Material approximation of data smoothing and spline curves inspired by slime mould.