Slimeware: Engineering devices with slime mold

Artificial Life

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 317-330

  Adamatzky, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amorphous computers; Living technology; Parallel biological computers; Slime mold

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MOLDS; BIOLOGY;

AMORPHOUS COMPUTERS; BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; BIOLOGICAL COMPUTERS; ENGINEERING DEVICES; LIVING TECHNOLOGY; PARALLEL BIOLOGICAL COMPUTER; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; SINGLE CELLS; SLIME MOULDS; SPECTRA'S;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM;

BIOENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM;

EID: 84883699700     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00110     Document Type: Article

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