TY - BOOK ID - 7913438 TI - Advances in Physarum Machines : Sensing and Computing with Slime Mould PY - 2016 SN - 3319266616 3319266624 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Computer Science KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Bionics. KW - Myxomycetes. KW - Acellular slime molds KW - Aerogastres KW - Molds, Slime KW - Mycetozoa KW - Myxogastres KW - Plasmoidial slime molds KW - Slime fungi KW - Slime molds KW - Slime moulds KW - True slime molds KW - Intellectronics KW - Engineering. KW - Artificial intelligence. KW - Bioinformatics. KW - Computational intelligence. KW - Complexity, Computational. KW - Robotics. KW - Automation. KW - Complexity. KW - Computational Intelligence. KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). KW - Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory. KW - Robotics and Automation. KW - Automatic factories KW - Automatic production KW - Computer control KW - Engineering cybernetics KW - Factories KW - Industrial engineering KW - Mechanization KW - Assembly-line methods KW - Automatic control KW - Automatic machinery KW - CAD/CAM systems KW - Robotics KW - Automation KW - Machine theory KW - Complexity, Computational KW - Electronic data processing KW - Intelligence, Computational KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Soft computing KW - Bio-informatics KW - Biological informatics KW - Biology KW - Information science KW - Computational biology KW - Systems biology KW - AI (Artificial intelligence) KW - Artificial thinking KW - Electronic brains KW - Intelligence, Artificial KW - Intelligent machines KW - Machine intelligence KW - Thinking, Artificial KW - Bionics KW - Cognitive science KW - Digital computer simulation KW - Logic machines KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Simulation methods KW - Fifth generation computers KW - Neural computers KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Data processing KW - Rhizopoda KW - Bioengineering KW - Biophysics KW - Cybernetics KW - Systems engineering KW - Artificial Intelligence. KW - Computational complexity. KW - Statistical physics. KW - Physics KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Statistical methods UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7913438 AB - This book is devoted to Slime mould Physarum polycephalum, which is a large single cell capable for distributed sensing, concurrent information processing, parallel computation and decentralized actuation. The ease of culturing and experimenting with Physarum makes this slime mould an ideal substrate for real-world implementations of unconventional sensing and computing devices The book is a treatise of theoretical and experimental laboratory studies on sensing and computing properties of slime mould, and on the development of mathematical and logical theories of Physarum behavior. It is shown how to make logical gates and circuits, electronic devices (memristors, diodes, transistors, wires, chemical and tactile sensors) with the slime mould. The book demonstrates how to modify properties of Physarum computing circuits with functional nano-particles and polymers, to interface the slime mould with field-programmable arrays, and to use Physarum as a controller of microbial fuel cells. A unique multi-agent model of slime is shown to serve well as a software slime mould capable for solving problems of computational geometry and graph optimization. The multiagent model is complemented by cellular automata models with parallel accelerations. Presented mathematical models inspired by Physarum include non-quantum implementation of Shor's factorization, structural learning, computation of shortest path tree on dynamic graphs, supply chain network design, p-adic computing and syllogistic reasoning. The book is a unique composition of vibrant and lavishly illustrated essays which will inspire scientists, engineers and artists to exploit natural phenomena in designs of future and emergent computing and sensing devices. It is a 'bible' of experimental computing with spatially extended living substrates, it spanstopics from biology of slime mould, to bio-sensing, to unconventional computing devices androbotics, non-classical logics and music and arts. . ER -