[alife] Physarum Machines: Slime Mould Computing and Novel Computing Substrates at ECAL 2015 YORK, UK
Andrew Adamatzky
andrew.adamatzky at uwe.ac.uk
Sat Mar 21 05:50:22 PDT 2015
Physarum Machines: Slime Mould Computing and Novel Computing Substrates
at the 13th European Conference on Artificial Life
York, UK
20-24 July, 2015
http://www.phychip.eu/physarumyork/
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Deadlines
paper submission: 1st June, 2015
notification: 10th June, 2015
revised version submission: 15th June, 2015
Email your submission to andrew.adamatzky at uwe.ac.uk
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Plasmodium of acellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a gigantic
single cell visible by unaided eye. The cell shows a rich spectrum of
behavioural morphological patterns in response to changing environmental
conditions. Given data represented by chemical or physical stimuli we
can employ and modify the behaviour of the slime mould to make it solve
a range of computing and sensing tasks. Plasmodium can solve
computational problems with natural parallelism, e.g. related to
shortest path, hierarchies of planar proximity graphs, computation of
plane tessellations, execution of logical computing schemes, and natural
implementation of spatial logic and process algebra. The workshop deals
with software, hardware and wetware realisations of Physarum machines:
programmable by configurations of repelling and attracting gradients
amorphous biological computing devices inspired by or implemented with
the plasmodium of P. polycephalum. Exemplar topics of the submissions
could be as follows:
Hybrid wetware+hardware devices
Slime mould based electronics
Physarum inspired algorithms on graphs and networks
Computing models and prototypes of slime mould computers
Transport of particles by slime mould
Physarum inspired calculi and logic
Slime mould inspired algorithms of evacuation
Computing oriented biology of slime mould
Neuromorphic devices made of the slime mould
Cognitive functions modelled with the slime mould
Physarum in arts and music
Slime mould sensors
Cellular automata and particle based models of Physarum
Physarum inspired robots
Physarum controllers
Novel materials inspired by slime mould
Physarum and transport networks
Slime mould intelligence
Space exploration with slime mould
Organizer:
Andrew Adamatzky (UWE, UK), http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/adamatzky/
The Workshop is a part of the European Conference on Artificial Life
which will be held at the University of York, UK, 20-24 July 2015.
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/ecal2015/
Dissemination: Papers related to computation could be considered for
publication in Int J Unconventional Computing.
Email you questions and submission to Andy Adamatzky at
andrew.adamatzky at uwe.ac.uk
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