Contactless sensing of liquid marbles for detection, characterisation & computing (2019)
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Liquid marbles (LMs) are of growing interest in many fields, including microfluidics, microreactors, sensors, and signal carriers. The generation of LMs is generally performed manually, although there has recently been a burst of publications involvi... Read More about Contactless sensing of liquid marbles for detection, characterisation & computing.

Mapping outcomes of liquid marble collisions (2019)
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© 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Liquid marbles (LMs) have many promising roles in the ongoing development of microfluidics, microreactors, bioreactors, and unconventional computing. In many of these applications, the coalescence of two LMs is... Read More about Mapping outcomes of liquid marble collisions.

Thermal switch of oscillation frequency in belousov- zhabotinsky liquid marbles (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors. External control of oscillation dynamics in the Belousov- Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction is important for many applications including encoding computing schemes. When considering the BZ reaction, there are limited studies dealing with... Read More about Thermal switch of oscillation frequency in belousov- zhabotinsky liquid marbles.

Liquid Marble Actuator for Microfluidic Logic Systems (2018)
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© 2018, The Author(s). A mechanical flip-flop actuator has been developed that allows for the facile re-routing and distribution of liquid marbles (LMs) in digital microfluidic devices. Shaped loosely like a triangle, the actuating switch pivots fro... Read More about Liquid Marble Actuator for Microfluidic Logic Systems.

Evaporation, lifetime, and robustness studies of liquid marbles for collision-based computing (2018)
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© 2018 American Chemical Society. Liquid marbles (LMs) have recently attracted interest for use as cargo carriers in digital microfluidics and have successfully been implemented as signal carriers in collision-based unconventional computing circuits.... Read More about Evaporation, lifetime, and robustness studies of liquid marbles for collision-based computing.

Representation of shape mediated by environmental stimuli in Physarum polycephalum and a multi-agent model (2017)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is known to construct protoplasmic transport networks which approximate proximity graphs by foraging for nutrients during its plasmodial life cycle stage. In these networks, nodes are r... Read More about Representation of shape mediated by environmental stimuli in Physarum polycephalum and a multi-agent model.

The Internet of Things: a security point of view (2016)
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© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an in-depth overview of the security requirements and challenges for Internet of Things (IoT) and discuss security solutions for various enabling technologi... Read More about The Internet of Things: a security point of view.

On coupled oscillator dynamics and incident behaviour patterns in slime mould Physarum polycephalum: emergence of wave packets, global streaming clock frequencies and anticipation of periodic stimuli (2016)
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a single cell which physically oscillates via contraction of actomyosin in order to achieve motility. Several of its apparently ‘intelligent’ behavio... Read More about On coupled oscillator dynamics and incident behaviour patterns in slime mould Physarum polycephalum: emergence of wave packets, global streaming clock frequencies and anticipation of periodic stimuli.

Towards a Physarum learning chip (2016)
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Networks of protoplasmic tubes of organism Physarum polycehpalum are macro-scale structures which optimally span multiple food sources to avoid repellents yet maximize coverage of attractants. When data are presented by configurations of attractants... Read More about Towards a Physarum learning chip.

Evaluation of French motorway network in relation to slime mould transport networks (2016)
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© The Author(s) 2016. France has developed a high quality motorway system that has been rapidly rationalised and matured in the late 20th century yet has been founded on ancient, Roman infrastructures. The development of the motorway system is thus a... Read More about Evaluation of French motorway network in relation to slime mould transport networks.

Emergent behaviors in a bio-inspired platform controlled by a physical cellular automata cluster (2016)
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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.

On using compressibility to detect when slime mould completed computation (2015)
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© 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.

Mechanisms inducing parallel computation in a model of physarum polycephalum transport networks (2015)
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© 2015 World Scientific Publishing Company. The giant amoeboid organism true slime mould Physarum polycephalum dynamically adapts its body plan in response to changing environmental conditions and its protoplasmic transport network is used to distrib... Read More about Mechanisms inducing parallel computation in a model of physarum polycephalum transport networks.

Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould (2015)
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© 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 role of the plasmodial cytoskeleton in facilitating intelligent behavior in slime mold physarum polycephalum (2015)
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© 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.

Material approximation of data smoothing and spline curves inspired by slime mould (2014)
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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.

A distributed consensus algorithm for decision making in service-oriented internet of things (2014)
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In a service-oriented Internet of things (IoT) deployment, it is difficult to make consensus decisions for services at different IoT edge nodes where available information might be insufficient or overloaded. Existing statistical methods attempt to r... Read More about A distributed consensus algorithm for decision making in service-oriented internet of things.

Computation of the travelling salesman problem by a shrinking blob (2013)
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The travelling salesman problem (TSP) is a well known and challenging combinatorial optimisation problem. Its computational intractability has attracted a number of heuristic approaches to generate satisfactory, if not optimal, candidate solutions. S... Read More about Computation of the travelling salesman problem by a shrinking blob.

Adaptive and secure load-balancing routing protocol for service-oriented wireless sensor networks (2013)
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Service-oriented architectures for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been proposed to provide an integrated platform, where new applications can be rapidly developed through flexible service composition. In WSNs, the existing multipath routing sch... Read More about Adaptive and secure load-balancing routing protocol for service-oriented wireless sensor networks.

Local semidefinite programming-based node localization system for wireless sensor network applications (2013)
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Node localization has been identified as a fundamental and essential issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), which is able to determine nodes' locations in location-aware applications and provide different types of services based on the location in... Read More about Local semidefinite programming-based node localization system for wireless sensor network applications.