Slime mould imitates development of Roman roads in the Balkans

Origin, spatial pattern, and evolution of urban system: Testing a hypothesis of “urban tree”

“…As an important way of connection among cities, transport networks have been paid widely attention in researches of urban system. Like our UT theory, a bionic approach has been widely used to evaluate the transport networks (Adamatzky, 2012;Adamatzky, Lees, & Sloot, 2013) and street network (Strano, 2012), and to imitate urban roads (Evangelidis, Tsompanas, Sirakoulis, & Adamatzky, 2015;Strano, Nicosia, Latora, Porta, & Barth elemy, 2012;Tsompanas, Sirakoulis, & Adamatzky, 2016). Transport networks can be imitated with Slime mould (Adamatzky & Prokopenko, 2012), and these biological network models are conducive to transport network design (Zhang et al, , 2016.…”

Cellular Automaton Belousov–Zhabotinsky Model for Binary Full Adder

“…In many cases neighborhoods of bigger sizes can be used but this increases the complexity of the algorithm, which has to be avoided. CA have sufficient expressive dynamics to represent phenomena of arbitrary complexity [Zhao et al, 2007;Martínez et al, 2008;Alonso-Sanz & Adamatzky, 2008;Adamatzky et al, 2006;Tsompanas et al, 2015;Siccardi & Adamatzky, 2015;Evangelidis et al, 2015]. Looking at the characteristics of chemical computers and CA, we understand the importance of combining them.…”

“…What is a better material producer other than nature and its tools? It has been found that parallel computation takes place in living organisms within their cytoskeleton structures without any ruling CPU or clock [Siccardi et al, 2016;Alonso-Sanz & Adamatzky, 2016;Evangelidis et al, 2015;Dourvas et al, 2015;Mayne et al, 2015;Asai et al, 2005a]. The research on such biological paradigms could open new horizons in computing.…”

Thirty Seven Things to Do with Live Slime Mould

“…1.5) and migration (Sect. 1.6) we explored foraging behaviour of the Physarum to imitate development of Roman roads in the Balkans [58]. Agar plates were cut in a shape of Balkans area.…”

“…For example, the propagation of Physarum from Thessaloniki towards the area of Scopje and Stoboi matches the road aligned with the Valley of Axios, which is a key communication artery between the Balkan hinterland and Aegean area from Bronze age. A range of historical scenarios was uncovered [58], including movement along via Diagonalis, the long diagonal axis that crossed central Balkan; propagation to the East towards Byzantium, towards the North along the coast of Euxeinus Pontus, and from Thessaloniki to Dyrrachion, along the western part of via Egnatia [58].…”