Simulated Bacterially-Inspired Problem Solving – The Behavioural Domain

Rule-based computing system for microbial interactions and communications: Evolution in virtual bacterial populations

“…Devine et al, 1996;Ginovart et al, 2002;Gregory et al, 2004a), and as essential inputs to the simulation of bacterial population biology and ecology (Kreft et al, 1998(Kreft et al, , 2001Ginovart et al, 2005;Prats et al 2006). COSMIC-Rules is based on the COSMIC (Gregory et al 2004a(Gregory et al , 2004b(Gregory et al , 2005Paton et al 2005) and RUBAM models, which were designed to create detailed simulations that were biologically accurate and computable within practical time frames (Gregory et al, 2006). However, where COSMIC had relatively simplistic yet explicit implementations of gene expression and evolution, COSMIC-Rules is rule-based with implicit implementations of gene expression that allow the compression of genetic information and facilitate more rapid computation.…”

Natural Computing Algorithms

“…Bacteria are amongst the oldest and most populous forms of life on earth (a human typically has about 10 14 bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract [499]). Despite possessing a relatively simple physical structure in comparison with mammals or insects, bacteria are capable of sophisticated interactions with their environment and with each other.…”

Assessing the Performance of Two Bioinspired Algorithms to Solve Single-Row Layout Problem

“…Paton et al [38] described a bacterially-inspired computational architecture for simulating aspects of problem solving. Kim et al [39] proposed a hybrid approach involving GA and BFA for function optimization problems and test their performance on four test functions.…”