From Pattern Formation to Material Computation Multi-agent Modelling of Physarum Polycephalum /

• Main Author: Jones, Jeff (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation, 15
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Bioinformatics.; Computational intelligence.; Complexity, Computational.; Robotics.; Automation.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Robotics and Automation.; Complexity.

This book addresses topics of mobile multi-agent systems, pattern formation, biological modelling, artificial life, unconventional computation, and robotics. The behaviour of a simple organism which is capable of remarkable biological and computational feats that seem to transcend its simple compone...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Slime Mould Physarum polycephalum. Part II Modelling Physarum polycephalum.
• Part III Material Computation in a Multi-agent Model of Physarum polycephalum: Mechanisms and Applications
• Part IV From Emergent Oscillations to Collective Transport and Amoeboid Movement
• Part V Conclusions and Beyond Physarum models.