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Bioevaluation of world transport networks /

Slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a monstrous single cell well known for its task-solving abilities -- solves computational geometry and logical problems, navigates robots and generates music. The slime mould could also build motorways, highways and expressways. It is used to analyse transport ne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adamatzky, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, ©2012.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction / Andrew Adamatzky
  • 2. Methods: how we conducted experiments and analysed their results / Andrew Adamatzky
  • 3. Trans-African highways / Andrew Adamatzky and Anne Kayem
  • 4. Tracing historical development of Australian highways / Andrew Adamatzky and Mikhail Prokopenko
  • 5. Belgian transport networks: redundancy and dissolution / Andrew Adamatzky, Bernard De Baets and Wesley Van Dessel
  • 6. Brazilian highways from slime mould's point of view / Andrew Adamatzky and Pedro P.B. de Oliveira
  • 7. Trans-Canada slimeways: from coast to coast to coast / Andrew Adamatzky and Selim G. Akl
  • 8. Slime mould imitates highways in China / Andrew Adamatzky, Xin-She Yang and Yu-Xin Zhao
  • 9. Schlauschleimer auf Autobahnen: the case of Germany / Andrew Adamatzky and Theresa Schubert
  • 10. Vie Physarale: Roman roads with slime mould / Emanuele Strano, Andrew Adamatzky and Jeff Jones
  • 11. Malaysian expressways: is there a logic behind them? / Andrew Adamatzky [and others]
  • 12. Physarum narcotraficum: Mexican highways and slime mould / Andrew Adamatzky [and others]
  • 13. Physarum in The Netherlands: responding to the flood / Andrew Adamatzky, Michael Lees and Peter M.A. Sloot
  • 14. Rebuilding Iberian motorways with slime mould / Andrew Adamatzky and Ramon Alonso-Sanz
  • 15. United Kingdom road planning with slime mould / Andrew Adamatzky and Jeff Jones
  • 16. Slimy interstates in the USA / Andrew Adamatzky and Andrew Ilachinski
  • 17. World colonisation and trade route formation / Andrew Adamatzky
  • 18. Biorationality of motorways / Andrew Adamatzky [and others]
  • Conclusion.