Computing with Biological Metaphors
Author: Ray Paton
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13:
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Bio-Inspired Computing and Communication
Author: Pietro Liò
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-12-18
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 3540921907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First Workshop on Bio-Inspired Design of Networks, BIOWIRE 2007, held in Cambridge, UK, in April 2007. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from many high quality submissions. All recent developments in the field of bio-inspired design of networks are addressed, with particular regard to wireless networks and the self-organizing properties of biological networks. The papers are organized in topical sections on biological networks, network epidemics, complex networks, bio-inspired network mode, network protocol in wireless communication, data management, distributed computing, and security.
Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing
Author: Leandro N. De Castro
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781591403128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing is necessary reading for undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers interested in knowing the most recent advances in problem solving techniques inspired by nature. This book covers the most relevant areas in computational intelligence, including evolutionary algorithms, artificial neural networks, artificial immune systems and swarm systems. It also brings together novel and philosophical trends in the exciting fields of artificial life and robotics. This book has the advantage of covering a large number of computational approaches, presenting the state-of-the-art before entering into the details of specific extensions and new developments. Pseudocodes, flow charts and examples of applications are provided so as to help newcomers and mature researchers to get the point of the new approaches presented.
Computation In Cellular And Molecular Biological Systems
Author: Roy Cuthbertson
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 1996-10-25
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9814498130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComputation in Cellular and Molecular Biological Systems is a selection of papers presented at the First International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT 95). The book contains contributions from mathematicians, biochemists, cell biologists, physiologists and computer scientists. It is multidisciplinary in nature and deals with integrative aspects of information processing, cellular systems and dynamical methods.
Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 030909612X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvances in computer science and technology and in biology over the last several years have opened up the possibility for computing to help answer fundamental questions in biology and for biology to help with new approaches to computing. Making the most of the research opportunities at the interface of computing and biology requires the active participation of people from both fields. While past attempts have been made in this direction, circumstances today appear to be much more favorable for progress. To help take advantage of these opportunities, this study was requested of the NRC by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Energy. The report provides the basis for establishing cross-disciplinary collaboration between biology and computing including an analysis of potential impediments and strategies for overcoming them. The report also presents a wealth of examples that should encourage students in the biological sciences to look for ways to enable them to be more effective users of computing in their studies.
Computing with Bio-Molecules
Author: Gheorghe Paun
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998-10
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compilation of over 20 international contributions on the theoretical and experimental works of scientists in search of the bio-computer. These are written in the style of research papers and surveys. Being one of the first volumes of its type in this new exciting field, this book will be of equal interest to computer scientists, mathematicians, and biochemists alike.
Computation for Metaphors, Analogy, and Agents
Author: Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-06-26
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 3540488340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together the work of researchers from various disciplines where aspects of descriptive, mathematical, computational or design knowledge concerning metaphor and analogy, especially in the context of agents, have emerged. The book originates from an international workshop on Computation for Metaphors, Analogy, and Agents (CMAA), held in Aizu, Japan in April 1998. The 19 carefully reviewed and revised papers presented together with an introduction by the volume editor are organized into sections on Metaphor and Blending, Embodiment, Interaction, Imitation, Situated Mapping in Space and Time, Algebraic Engineering: Respecting Structure, and a Sea-Change in Viewpoints.
Refiguring Life
Author: Evelyn Fox Keller
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780231102056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRefiguring Life begins with the history of genetics and embryology, showing how discipline-based metaphors have directed scientists' search for evidence. Keller continues with an exploration of the border traffic between biology and physics, focusing on the question of life and the law of increasing entropy. In a final section she traces the impact of new metaphors, born of the computer revolution, on the course of biological research. Keller shows how these metaphors began as objects of contestation between competing visions of the life sciences, how they came to be recast and appropriated by already established research agendas, and how in the process they ultimately came to subvert those same agendas. Refiguring Life explains how the metaphors and machinery of research are not merely the products of scientific discovery but actually work together to map out the territory along which new metaphors and machines can be constructed. Through their dynamic interaction, Keller points out, they define the realm of the possible in science. Drawing on a remarkable spectrum of theoretical work ranging from Schroedinger to French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Refiguring Life fuses issues already prominent in the humanities and social sciences with those in the physical and natural sciences, transgressing disciplinary boundaries to offer a broad view of the natural sciences as a whole. Moving gracefully from genetics to embryology, from physics to biology, from cyberscience to molecular biology, Evelyn Fox Keller demonstrates that scientific inquiry cannot pretend to stand apart from the issues and concerns of the larger society in which it exists.
Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences
Author: Andrew S. Reynolds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-04-28
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 110883728X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces the diverse roles metaphors play in the life sciences and highlights their significance for theory, communication, and education.
Fundamentals of Natural Computing
Author: Leandro Nunes de Castro
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2006-06-02
Total Pages: 698
ISBN-13: 1584886439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNatural computing brings together nature and computing to develop new computational tools for problem solving; to synthesize natural patterns and behaviors in computers; and to potentially design novel types of computers. Fundamentals of Natural Computing: Basic Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications presents a wide-ranging survey of novel techniques and important applications of nature-based computing. This book presents theoretical and philosophical discussions, pseudocodes for algorithms, and computing paradigms that illustrate how computational techniques can be used to solve complex problems, simulate nature, explain natural phenomena, and possibly allow the development of new computing technologies. The author features a consistent and approachable, textbook-style format that includes lucid figures, tables, real-world examples, and different types of exercises that complement the concepts while encouraging readers to apply the computational tools in each chapter. Building progressively upon core concepts of nature-inspired techniques, the topics include evolutionary computing, neurocomputing, swarm intelligence, immunocomputing, fractal geometry, artificial life, quantum computing, and DNA computing. Fundamentals of Natural Computing is a self-contained introduction and a practical guide to nature-based computational approaches that will find numerous applications in a variety of growing fields including engineering, computer science, biological modeling, and bioinformatics.
