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.

Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum (2012)
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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 physarum engines (2012)
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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.

Influences on the formation and evolution of Physarum polycephalum inspired emergent transport networks (2011)
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Influences on the formation and evolution of Physarum polycephalum inspired emergent transport networks (2011)
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The single-celled organism Physarum polycephalum efficiently constructs and minimises dynamical nutrient transport networks resembling proximity graphs in the Toussaint hierarchy. We present a particle model which collectively approximates the behavi... Read More about Influences on the formation and evolution of Physarum polycephalum inspired emergent transport networks.

Sounds synthesis with slime mould of Physarum Polycephalum (2011)
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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.

The emergence of synchronization behavior in Physarum polycephalum and its particle approximation (2011)
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The regeneration process of contractile oscillation in the plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is investigated experimentally and modelled computationally. When placed in a well, the Physarum cell restructures the body (fusion of small granule-like c... Read More about The emergence of synchronization behavior in Physarum polycephalum and its particle approximation.

Towards programmable smart materials: Dynamical reconfiguration of emergent transport networks (2011)
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Towards physarum robots (2011)
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Routing physarum with electrical flow/current (2011)
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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.

Towards Physarum binary adders (2010)
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Characteristics of pattern formation and evolution in approximations of physarum transport networks (2010)
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Most studies of pattern formation place particular emphasis on its role in the development of complex multicellular body plans. In simpler organisms, however, pattern formation is intrinsic to growth and behavior. Inspired by one such organism, the t... Read More about Characteristics of pattern formation and evolution in approximations of physarum transport networks.

The emergence and dynamical evolution of complex transport networks from simple low-level behaviours (2010)
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