[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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