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Book SynopsisIn the late 1960s British mathematician John Conway invented a virtual mathematical machine that operates on a two-dimensional array of square cell. A dead cell comes to life if it has exactly three live neighbours. A live cell remains alive if two or three of its neighbours are alive, otherwise the cell dies.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“This volume’s 27 papers offer some systematic methods and rigorous theorems that exhibit the study of Conway’s game and its variations, emerging out of the realm of merely recreational mathematics. … this unique book will have great value as both a state-of-the-art summary and a collection of proposals for new directions to explore. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.” (D. V. Feldman, Choice, Vol. 48 (4), December, 2010)“Andrew Adamatzky has assembled a superb collection of papers on Life that encompass work going back more than 20 years. … maintains a good balance between interconnectedness and recognition of the papers as independent contributions. … This book is a treasure trove of history, concepts, and models. It is a good starting place for a newcomer to the study of Conway’s Game of Life, an opening of vistas for the amateur hobbyist, and a serious handbook for the professional researcher.” (Anthony J. Duben, ACM Computing Reviews, February, 2011)Table of Contents1. Introduction to Cellular Automata and Conway’s Game of Life.- Part I Historical.- 2. Conway’s Game of Life: Early Personal Recollections.- 3. Conway’s Life.- 4. Life’s Still Lifes.- 5. A Zoo of Life Forms.- Part II Classical Topics.- 6. Growth and Decay in Life-Like Cellular Automata.- 7. The B36/S125 “2x2” Life-Like Cellular Automaton.- 8. Object Synthesis in Conway’s Game of Life and other Cellular Automata.- 9. Gliders and Glider Guns Discovery in Cellular Automata.- 10. Constraint Programming to Solve Maximal Density Still Life.- Part III Asynchronous, Continuous and Memory-Enriched Automata.- 11. Larger than Life’s Extremes: Rigorous Results for Simplified Rules and Speculation on the Phase Boundaries.- 12. RealLife.- 13. Variations on the Game of Life.- 14. Does Life Resist Asynchrony?.- 15. LIFE with Short-Term Memory.- 16. Localization Dynamics in a Binary Two-Dimensional Cellular Automaton: the Diffusion Rule.- Part IV Non-Orthogonal Lattices.- 17. The Game of Life in Non-Square Environments.- 18. The Game of Life Rules on Penrose Tilings: Still Life and Oscillators.- 19. A Spherical XOR Gate Implemented in the Game of Life.- Part V Complexity.- 20. Emergent Complexity in Conway’s Game of Life.- 21. Macroscopic Spatial Complexity of the Game of Life Cellular Automaton: A Simple Data Analysis.- Part VI Physics.- 22. The Enlightened Game of Life 23. Towards a Quantum Game of Life.- Part VII Music.- 24. Game of Life Music.- Part VIII Computation.- 25. Universal Computation and Construction in GoL Cellular Automata.- 26. A Simple Universal Turing Machine for the Game of Life Turing Machine.- 27. Computation with Competing Patterns in Life-like Automaton.- Index

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Book SynopsisSlime 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 networks of Africa, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, UK and USA. The largest cities are represented by oat flakes and the slime mould is inoculated in a capital. When all oat flakes are covered by the slime mould, the structure of the protoplasmic networks formed are analyzed. In the laboratory experiments and theoretical analyses, intriguing country-specific properties of the motorway networks are uncovered and compared with the man-made and slime mould networks. They are studied as proximity graphs, leading to hierarchies of complexity and bio-rationality of the motorways.The book will inspire novel and original thoughts, paradigms and approaches for re-evaluation of historical findings on the emergence of ancient roads and will help to design future transcontinental pathways. The book is self-contained and does not require any special training or knowledge. This lavishly illustrated text will be appreciated by readers from all walks of life.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Andrew Adamatzky); Methods: How We Made Experiments and Analysed Their Results (Andrew Adamatzky); Trans-African Highways (Andrew Adamatzky and Anne Kayem); Tracing Historical Development of Australian Highways (Andrew Adamatzky and Mikhail Prokopenko); Belgian Transport Networks: Redundancy and Dissolution (Andrew Adamatzky, Bernard De Baets and Wesley Van Dessel); Brazilian Highways from Slime Mould's Point of View (Andrew Adamatzky and Pedro P B De Oliveira); Trans-Canada Slimeways: From Coast to Coast to Coast (Andrew Adamatzky and Selim G Akl); Slime Mould Imitates Highways in China (Andrew Adamatzky, Xin-She Yang and Yu-Xin Zhao); Schlauschleimer auf Autobahnen: The Case of Germany (Andrew Adamatzky and Theresa Schubert); Vie Physarale: Roman Roads With Slime Mould (Emanuele Strano, Andrew Adamatzky and Jeff Jones); Malaysian Expressways: Is There a Logic Behind? (Andrew Adamatzky, Zuwairie Ibrahim, Amar Faiz Zainal Abidin and Badaruddin Muhammad); Physarum Narcotraficum: Mexican Highways and Slime Mould (Andrew Adamatzky, Genaro J Martinez, Sergio V Chapa-Vergara, Rene Asomoza-Palacio and Christopher R Stephens); Physarum in the Netherlands: Responding to the Flood (Andrew Adamatzky, Michael Lees and Peter M A Sloot); Rebuilding Iberian Motorways with Slime Mould (Andrew Adamatzky and Ramon Alonso-Sanz); United Kingdom Road Planning with Slime Mould (Andrew Adamatzky and Jeff Jones); Slimy Interstates in the USA (Andrew Adamatzky and Andrew Ilachinski); The World's Colonisation and Trade Routes Formation (Andrew Adamatzky); Bio-Rationality of Motorways (Andrew Adamatzky, Selim Akl, Ramon Alonso-Sanz, Wesley van Dessel, Zuwairie Ibrahim, Andrew Ilachinski, Jeff Jones, Anne V D M Kayem, Genaro J Martinez, Pedro de Oliveira, Mikhail Prokopenko, Theresa Schubert, Peter Sloot, Emanuele Strano and Xin-She Yang).

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Book SynopsisA crowd-mind emerges when formation of a crowd causes fusion of individual minds into one collective mind. Members of the crowd lose their individuality. The deindividuation leads to derationalization: emotional, impulsive and irrational behavior, self-catalytic activities, memory impairment, perceptual distortion, hyper-responsiveness, and distortion of traditional forms and structures. This book presents unique results of computational studies on cognitive and affective space-time processes in large-scale collectives of abstract agents being far from mental equilibrium. Computational experiments demonstrate that the irrational and nonsensical behavior of individual entities of crowd-mind results in complex, rich and non-trivial spatio-temporal dynamics of the agent collectives. Mathematical methods employ theory and techniques of cellular-automata and lattice swarms, applied algebra, theory of finite automata and Markov chains, and elementary differential equations.Table of ContentsCrowding Minds; Patterns of Affect; Doxastic Dynamics; Normative Worlds; Dynamically Non-Trivial Logics; Morphology of Irrationality

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Book SynopsisThe slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large cell visible by the unaided eye. It behaves as an intelligent nonlinear spatially extended active medium encapsulated in an elastic membrane. The cell optimises its growth patterns in configurations of attractants and repellents. This behaviour is interpreted as computation. Numerous prototypes of slime mould computers were designed to solve problems of computational geometry, graphs and transport networks and to implement universal computing circuits.In this unique set of scientific photographs and micrographs, the leading experts in computer science, biology, chemistry and material science illustrate in superb detail the nature of the slime mould computers and hybrid devices. Every photograph or micrograph in this book is of real scientific, theoretical or technological interest. Each entry includes a self-contained description of how the visualised phenomenon is used in the relevant slime mould computer. This atlas is unique in providing the depth and breadth of knowledge in harnessing behaviour of the slime mould to perform computation. It will help readers to understand how exploitation of biological processes has sparked new ideas and spurred progress in many fields of science and engineering.

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Book SynopsisA Physarum machine is a programmable amorphous biological computer experimentally implemented in the vegetative state of true slime mould Physarum polycephalum. It comprises an amorphous yellowish mass with networks of protoplasmic veins, programmed by spatial configurations of attracting and repelling gradients.This book demonstrates how to create experimental Physarum machines for computational geometry and optimization, distributed manipulation and transportation, and general-purpose computation. Being very cheap to make and easy to maintain, the machine also functions on a wide range of substrates and in a broad scope of environmental conditions. As such a Physarum machine is a ‘green’ and environmentally friendly unconventional computer.The book is readily accessible to a nonprofessional reader, and is a priceless source of experimental tips and inventive theoretical ideas for anyone who is inspired by novel and emerging non-silicon computers and robots.Table of ContentsFrom Reaction-Diffusion to Physarum Computing; Experimenting with Physarum; Physarum Solves Mazes; Plane Tessellation; Oregonator Model of Physarum Growing Trees; Physarum and Toussaint Hierarchy; Physarum Gates; Kolmogorov-Uspensky Machine in Plasmodium; Reconfiguring Physarum Machines with Attractants; Programming Physarum Machines with Light; Routing Physarum with Repellents; Physarum Manipulators; Physarum Boats; Manipulating Substances with Physarum Machine; Road Planning with Slime Mould.

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Book SynopsisThe unique compendium re-assesses the value of future and emergent computing technologies via artistic and philosophical means. The book encourages scientists to adopt inspiring thinking of artists and philosophers to reuse scientific concepts in their works.The useful reference text consists of non-typical topics, where artistic and philosophical concepts encourage readers to adopt unconventional approaches towards computing and immerse themselves into discoveries of future emerging landscape.Related Link(s)

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Book SynopsisThis invaluable book is a unique collection of tributes to outstanding discoveries pioneered by Leon Chua in nonlinear circuits, cellular neural networks, and chaos. It is comprised of three parts. The first — cellular nonlinear networks, nonlinear circuits and cellular automata — deals with Chua's Lagrangian circuits, cellular wave computers, bio-inspired robotics and neuro-morphic architectures, toroidal chaos, synaptic cellular automata, history of Chua's circuits, cardiac arrhythmias, local activity principle, symmetry breaking and complexity, bifurcation trees, and Chua's views on nonlinear dynamics of cellular automata. Dynamical systems and chaos is the scope of the second part of the book, where we find genius accounts on theory and application of Julia set, stability of dynamical networks, chaotic neural networks and neocortical dynamics, dynamics of piecewise linear systems, chaotic mathematical circuitry, synchronization of oscillators, models of catastrophic events, control of chaotic systems, symbolic dynamics, and solitons. First hand accounts on the discovery of memristors in HP Labs, historical excursions into ‘ancient memristors’, analytical analysis of memristors, and hardware memristor emulators are presented in the third and final part of the book.The book is quintessence of ideas on future and emergent hardware, analytic theories of complex dynamical systems and interdisciplinary physics. It is a true Renaissance volume where bright ideas of electronics, mathematics and physics enlighten facets of modern science.The unique DVD covers the artistic aspects of chaos, such as several stunningly melodious musical compositions using chaotic atttractors, a virtual gallery of hundreds of colorful attractors, and even a cartoon-like play on the genesis of Chua's circuit that was based on a widely acclaimed performance in Rome and other venues in Italy. In short, it is a veritable kaleiscope of never-before-published historical, pedagogical, and futuristic technical visions on three timely topics of intense interest for both lay readers and experts alike.Table of ContentsCellular Nonlinear Networks, Nonlinear Circuits and Cellular Automata: Genealogy of Chua's Circuit (Peter Kennedy); Impasse Points, Mutators, and Other Chua Creations (Hyongsuk Kim); Chua's Lagrangian Circuit Elements (Orla Feely); From CNN Dynamics to Cellular Wave Computers (Tamas Roska); Contributions of CNN to Bio-Robotics and Brain Science (P Arena and L Patane); From Radio-amateurs' Electronics to Toroidal Chaos (Otto E Rossler and Christophe Letellier); Analyzing the Dynamics of Excitatory Neural Networks by Synaptic Cellular Automata (V Nekorkin, A Dmitrichev, D Kasatkin and V Afraimovich); Dynamical Systems Perspective of Wolfram's Cellular Automata (M Courbage and B Kaminki); The Genesis of Chua's Circuit: Connecting Science, Art and Creativity (F Bertacchini, E Bilotta, G Laria and P Pantano); Nonlinear Electronics Laboratory (NOEL): A Reminiscence (Chai Wah Wu); Bursting in Cellular Automata and Cardiac Arrhythmias (Gil Bub, Alvin Shrier and Leon Glass); Local Activity Principle: The Cause of Complexity and Symmetry Breaking (Klaus Mainzer); Explorations in the Forest of Bifurcation Trees: Route from Chua's circuit to Chua's Memristive Oscillator (Lukasz Czerwinski and Maciej J Ogorzalek); Chua's Nonlinear Dynamics Perspective Cellular Automata (Giovanni E Pazienza); Application of CNN to Brainlike Computing (Bertram E Shi); Ideal Turbulence Phenomenon and Transmission Line with Chua's Diode (E Yu Romanenko and A N Sharkovsky); Dynamical Systems and Chaos: Connectivity of Julia Sets for Singularly Perturbed Rational Maps (Robert L Devaney and Elizabeth D Russell); Structural Transformations and Stability of Dynamical Networks (L A Bunimovich and B Z Webb); Chua's time (Arturo Buscarino, Luigi Fortuna and Mattia Frasca); Chaotic Neural Networks and Beyond (K Aihara, T Yamada and M Oku); Chaotic Neocortical Dynamics (Walter J Freeman); Nonlinear Dynamics of a Class of Piecewise Linear Systems (M Lakshmanan and K Murali); Chaotic Mathematical Circuitry (R Lozi); Chua's Equation was Proved to be Chaotic in Two Years, Lorenz Equation in Thirty Six Years (Bharathwaj Muthuswamy); Toward a Quantitative Formulation of Emergence (G Nicolis); Controlled Synchronization of Chaotic Oscillators with Huygens' Coupling (J Pena-Ramirez, R H B Fey and H Nijmeijer); Using Time-Delay Feedback for Control and Synchronization of Dynamical Systems (K Pyragas, V Pyragas and T Pyragiene); Models of Catastrophic Events and Suggestions to Foretell Them (Yves Pomeau and Martine Le Berre); Synchronization Propensity in Networks of Dynamical Systems (Stefano Fasan and Sergio Rinaldi); Further Progress in Partial Control of Chaotic Systems (Miguel Sanjuan); Phase and Complete Synchronizations in Time-Delay Systems (D V Senthilkumar, M Manju Shrii and J Kurths); Symbolic Dynamics and Spiral Structures due to the Saddle-Focus Bifurcations (Andrey Shilnikov, Leonid Shilnikov and Roberto Barrio); Dynamics of Periodically Forced Mass Point on Constrained Surface with Changing Curvature (Yoshisuke Ueda); Solitons for Describing 3-D Physical Reality: The Current Frontier (Paul J Werbos); Thermal Solitons in 1D and 2D Anharmonic Lattices - Solectrons and the Organization of Non-Linear Fluctuations in Long-Living Dynamical Structures (M G Velarde, W Ebeling, A P Chetverikov); Global Optimizations by Intermittent Diffusion (Shui-Nee Chow, Tzi-Sheng Yang and Hao-Min Zhou); Memristors: How We Found the Missing Memristor (R Stanley Williams); Aftermath of Finding the Memristor (R Stanley Williams); The Singing Arc: The Oldest Memristor? (Jean-Marc Ginoux and Bruno Rossetto); Two Centuries of Memristors (Themistoklis Prodromakis); State Equations for Active Circuits with Memristors (Martin Hasler); Analytical Analysis of Memristive Networks (Torsten Schmidt, Willi Neudeck, Ute Feldmann and Ronald Tetzlaff); Hardware Memristor Emulators (Andrew L Fitch, Herbert H C Iu and Chi K Tse); Leon Chua's Memristor (Guanrong Chen).

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces art projects that resulted from unconventional explorations, curious experiments and their creative translations into sensorial experiences. Using electronic and digital art, bioart, sculpture and installations, sound and performance, the authors are removing boundaries between natural and artificial, real and imaginary, science and culture.The invited artists and researchers come from cutting-edge fields of art production that focuses on creating aesthetic experiences and performative situations. Their artworks create a spatial aesthetic experience for visitors by manifesting themselves in physical space. Experiencing the Unconventional is a unique selection of works by artists not based on formal similarities, but on investigative practices. It offers in-depth insights and first-hand working experiences into current production of art works at the edge of art, science and technology.

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces art projects that resulted from unconventional explorations, curious experiments and their creative translations into sensorial experiences. Using electronic and digital art, bioart, sculpture and installations, sound and performance, the authors are removing boundaries between natural and artificial, real and imaginary, science and culture.The invited artists and researchers come from cutting-edge fields of art production that focuses on creating aesthetic experiences and performative situations. Their artworks create a spatial aesthetic experience for visitors by manifesting themselves in physical space. Experiencing the Unconventional is a unique selection of works by artists not based on formal similarities, but on investigative practices. It offers in-depth insights and first-hand working experiences into current production of art works at the edge of art, science and technology.

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Book SynopsisModern computing relies on future and emergent technologies which have been conceived via interaction between computer science, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology. This highly interdisciplinary book presents advances in the fields of parallel, distributed and emergent information processing and computation. The book represents major breakthroughs in parallel quantum protocols, elastic cloud servers, structural properties of interconnection networks, internet of things, morphogenetic collective systems, swarm intelligence and cellular automata, unconventionality in parallel computation, algorithmic information dynamics, localized DNA computation, graph-based cryptography, slime mold inspired nano-electronics and cytoskeleton computers. Features Truly interdisciplinary, spanning computer science, electronics, mathematics and biology Covers widely popular topics of future and emergent computing technologies, cloud computing, parallTable of ContentsContents Preface...............................................................................................................................ix Editor Bios.........................................................................................................................xi Contributors....................................................................................................................xiii Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems.......................................................................................................xix Part 1 Networks and Parallel Computing Chapter 1 On the Importance of Parallelism for the Security of Quantum Protocols 3 Marius Nagy and Naya Nagy Chapter 2 Analytical Modeling and Optimization of an Elastic Cloud Server System 31 Keqin Li Chapter 3 Towards an Opportunistic Software-Defined Networking Solution 49 Lefteris Mamatas, Alexandra Papadopoulou, and Vassilis Tsaoussidis Chapter 4 Structural Properties and Fault Resiliency of Interconnection Networks 77 Eddie Cheng, Rong-Xia Hao, Ke Qiu, and Zhizhang Shen Part 2 Distributed Systems Chapter 5 Dynamic State Transitions of Individuals Enhance Macroscopic Behavioral Diversity of Morphogenetic Collective Systems 105 Hiroki Sayama Chapter 6 Toward Modeling Regeneration via Adaptable Echo State Networks 117 Jennifer Hammelman, Hava Siegelmann, Santosh Manicka, and Michael Levin Chapter 7 From Darwinian Evolution to Swarm Computation and Gamesourcing 135 Ivan Zelinka, Donald Davendra, Lenka Skanderová, Tomáš Vantuch, Lumír Kojecký, and Michal Bukáček Chapter 8 A Scalable and Modular Software Architecture for Finite Elements on Hierarchical Hybrid Grids 177 Nils Kohl, Dominik Thönnes, Daniel Drzisga, Dominik Bartuschat, and Ulrich Rüde Chapter 9 Minimal Discretised Agent-Based Modelling of the Dynamics of Change in Reactive Systems 199 Tiago G. Correale and Pedro P.B. de Oliveira Chapter 10 Toward a Crab-Driven Cellular Automaton 221 Yuta Nishiyama, Masao Migita, Kenta Kaito, and Hisashi Murakami Chapter 11 Evolving Benchmark Functions for Optimization Algorithms 239 Yang Lou, Shiu Yin Yuen, and Guanrong Chen Chapter 12 Do Ant Colonies Obey the Talmud? 261 Andrew Schumann Chapter 13 Biomorphs with Memory 273 Ramón Alonso-Sanz Chapter 14 Constructing Iterated Exponentials in Tilings of the Euclidean and of the Hyperbolic Plane 285 Maurice Margenstern Chapter 15 Swarm Intelligence for Area Surveillance Using Autonomous Robots 315 Tilemachos Bontzorlos, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, and Franciszek Seredynski Part 3 Emergent Computing Chapter 16 Unconventional Wisdom: Superlinear Speedup and Inherently Parallel Computations 347 Selim G. Akl Chapter 17 Algorithmic Information Dynamics of Emergent, Persistent, and Colliding Particles in the Game of Life 367 Hector Zenil, Narsis A. Kiani, and Jesper Tegnér Chapter 18 On Mathematics of Universal Computation with Generic Dynamical Systems 385 Vasileios Athanasiou and Zoran Konkoli Chapter 19 Localized DNA Computation 407 Hieu Bui and John Reif Chapter 20 The Graph Is the Message: Design and Analysis of an Unconventional Cryptographic Function 425 Selim G. Akl Chapter 21 Computing via Self-optimising Continuum 443 Alexander Safonov Chapter 22 Exploring Tehran with Excitable Medium 475 Andrew I. Adamatzky and Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi Chapter 23 Feasibility of Slime-Mold-Inspired Nano-Electronic Devices 489 Takahide Oya Chapter 24 A Laminar Cortical Model for 3D Boundary and Surface Representations of Complex Natural Scenes 509 Yongqiang Cao and Stephen Grossberg Chapter 25 Emergence of Locomotion Gaits Through Sensory Feedback in a Quadruped Robot 547 Paolo Arena, Andrea Bonanzinga, and Luca Patanè Chapter 26 Towards Cytoskeleton Computers. A Proposal........................... 575 Andrew I. Adamatzky, Jack Tuszynski, Jörg Pieper, Dan V. Nicolau, Rosaria Rinaldi, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Victor Erokhin, Jörg Schnauß, and David M. Smith Index 597

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