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- ArticleMay 2016
Efficient mixing of protoplasm in tubular network of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum
BICT'15: Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)Pages 596–597https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262531The slime mold Physarum polycephalum forms an extended network used for transportation of protoplasm through the cell. Although the flow is always laminar, protoplasmic particles are efficiently distributed within the cell. To elucidate how mixing is ...
- ArticleMay 2016
Interactive cloud experimentation for biology: Systems architecture and educational use case
BICT'15: Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)Page 593https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262507This extended abstract summarizes a contributed/invited presentation delivered at PhysNet 2015.
- ArticleMay 2016
A close look at amoeboid locomotion: An integrated picture of a migrating, starvation-induced foraging unit of Physarum polycephalum
BICT'15: Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)Pages 602–604https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262491Physarum polycephalum, cultivated on a glucose-deficient agar surface, forms disconnected foraging units (satellites). Our aim is to shed light onto the amoeboid locomotion of the slime mould, using satellites as reproducible and well-defined models and ...
- ArticleMay 2016
A Low-Cost Bio-Imaging and Incubation System
BICT'15: Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)Pages 589–591https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262490Here we describe an integrated system for biological experiments
on dynamic processes on the millimeter length scale.
The system permits live imaging under controlled environmental
conditions using low-cost technology that is easy to
implement. This ...
- ArticleMay 2016
Growth pattern of Physarum polycephalum during starvation
BICT'15: Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)Pages 600–601https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262481We describe a new growth pattern where
globular moving fragments are formed instead of networks.
- ArticleMay 2016
A Malleable Metaphor: Physarum polycephalum as artistic and educational medium
BICT'15: Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)Pages 594–595https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262479The slime mold Physarum polycephalum is a well-established model organism within fields of biology, physics and computing. It is also increasingly employed within art and design disciplines, pedagogic practices and public engagement activities as a ...
- ArticleMay 2016
Motifs of Growth and Fusion Govern Physarum polycephalum Network Formation
BICT'15: Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)Pages 598–599https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262452Physarum polycephalum, grown from fragments on an agar
surface, forms a planar transportation network with exclusively low node degrees in a percolation transition. The
dynamics of such a process can be captured by a rate equation
reflecting basic ...
- ArticleMay 2016
Adaptation of fluid flow in the slime mould Physarum polycephalum
BICT'15: Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)Page 605https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262413This extended abstract summarizes a contributed/invited presentation delivered at PhysNet 2015
- ArticleMay 2016
The search for the determinants of insertional RNA editing in Physarum polycephalum mitochondrial RNAs
BICT'15: Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)Pages 585–586https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262393The mitochondrial genome of the slime mold Physarum polycephalum is characterized by pervasive insertional RNA editing. Here, we provide an overview of the quest to identify the sequence determinant of the editing positions in this system. This work was ...
- research-articleAugust 2015
On the solution of the steiner tree NP-hard problem via physarum BioNetwork
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 23, Issue 4Pages 1092–1106https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2014.2317911In the last several years, many algorithms trying to mimic biological processes have been proposed to enhance the performance of communication networks. However, the bio-inspired algorithms represent only the very first step toward the design of a smart ...
- research-articleDecember 2014
Bio-inspired game theory: the case of physarum polycephalum
BICT '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Information and Communications TechnologiesPages 9–16https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.bict.2014.257869In this paper, first, we show that the true slime mould (plasmodial stage of Physarum polycephalum) is a natural transition system which can be considered a biological model for concurrent games, i.e. it can simulate the game semantics in the form of ...
- research-articleDecember 2014
An analytical model for percolation in small link degree transportation networks
BICT '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Information and Communications TechnologiesPages 81–86https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.bict.2014.257857Microplasmodia of the slime mold Physarum polycephalum form a small link degree transportation network in a percolation transition in order to forage. We model this transition analytically within the configuration model of graph theory utilizing all ...
- ArticleDecember 2012
An enhanced multi-agent system with evolution mechanism to approximate physarum transport networks
AI'12: Proceedings of the 25th Australasian joint conference on Advances in Artificial IntelligencePages 27–38https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35101-3_3The primitive unicellular organism slime mould Physarum Polycephalum has attracted much attention from researchers of both biology and computer science fields. Biological experiments have revealed that its foraging mechanism can be used to solve shortest ...
- ArticleJune 2011
Bio-inspired dynamic composition and reconfiguration of service-oriented internetware systems
ICSI'11: Proceedings of the Second international conference on Advances in swarm intelligence - Volume Part IPages 364–373Dynamic composition and reconfiguration of service-oriented Internetware systems are of paramount importance as we can not predefine everything during the design time of a software system. Recent biology studies show that the slime mold Physarum ...