Majority Gates and Circular Computation in Slime Mould

Genaro J. Martínez, Andrew Adamatzky, Richard Mayne, Fangyue Chen, Qinbin He

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Abstract

Slime mould has been proven to be a fruitful living substrate for implementing a wide range of computing circuits from computational geometry to collision-based logical circuits to robot control. It is apparent, however, that constructing working real-time universal processors from the slime mould is non-trivial task. We explore here similarities between development of slime mould protoplasmic tubes, transportation of cytoplasm inside the tubes and dynamics of propagating patterns in cellular automata. Based on these analogies we will propose computing devices realisable in the living slime mould.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2015
PublisherMIT Press Journals
Pages18-24
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9780262330275
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event13th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2015 - York, United Kingdom
Duration: 20 Jul 201524 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 13th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2015

Conference

Conference13th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityYork
Period20/07/1524/07/15

Keywords

  • cellular automata
  • competing patterns
  • logic gates
  • mobile localizations
  • slime mould
  • tubes
  • unconventional computing

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