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In this work, a novel quaternary algebra has been proposed that can be used to implement an arbitrary quaternary logic function in more than one systematic ways. The proposed logic has evolved from and is closely related to the Boolean…

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We report recent research on computing with biology-based neural network models by means of physics-based opto-electronic hardware. New technology provides opportunities for very-high-speed computation and uncovers problems obstructing the…

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Optimization of fluid transport in the slime mold Physarum polycephalum has been the subject of several modeling efforts in recent literature. Existing models assume that the tube adaptation mechanism in P. polycephalum's tubular network is…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-01 Vincenzo Bonifaci

Multi-nucleated cells exist in all domains of life, ranging from animals, plants and fungi to single-celled organisms such as the slime mold Physarum polycephalum. The large cell size, in the case of Physarum reaching centimeters and more,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Johnny Tong , Kaspar Wachinger , Fabian K. Henn , Nico Schramma , Siyu Chen , Karen Alim

The paper introduces a knowledge representation language that combines the event calculus with description logic in a logic programming framework. The purpose is to provide the user with an expressive language for modelling and analysing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Peter Baumgartner

Formal mathematics and computer science proofs are formalized using Hilbert-Russell-style logical systems which are designed to not admit paradoxes and self-refencing reasoning. These logical systems are natural way to describe and reason…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Ronie Salgado

A dynamic self-organized morphology is the hallmark of network-shaped organisms like slime moulds and fungi. Organisms continuously re-organize their flexible, undifferentiated body plans to forage for food. Among these organisms the slime…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Karen Alim

We introduce a natural language interface for building stochastic pi calculus models of biological systems. In this language, complex constructs describing biochemical events are built from basic primitives of association, dissociation and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Ozan Kahramanoğullari , Luca Cardelli , Emmanuelle Caron

Pre-trained on extensive text and image corpora, current Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLM) have shown strong capabilities in general visual reasoning tasks. However, their performance is still lacking in physical domains that require…

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P-systems are abstract computational models inspired by the phospholipid bilayer membranes generated by biological cells. Illustrated here is a mechanism by which recursive liposome structures (multivesicular liposomes) may be…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Richard Mayne , Neil Phillips , Andrew Adamatzky

The framework of psi-calculi extends the pi-calculus with nominal datatypes for data structures and for logical assertions and conditions. These can be transmitted between processes and their names can be statically scoped as in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Jesper Bengtson , Magnus Johansson , Joachim Parrow , Björn Victor

We describe a parser of English effectuated by biologically plausible neurons and synapses, and implemented through the Assembly Calculus, a recently proposed computational framework for cognitive function. We demonstrate that this device…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Daniel Mitropolsky , Michael J. Collins , Christos H. Papadimitriou

In this chapter we will argue that studying such multi-scale multi-science systems gives rise to inherently hybrid models containing many different algorithms best serviced by different types of computing environments (ranging from…

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We present FabSim, a toolkit developed to simplify a range of computational tasks for researchers in diverse disciplines. FabSim is flexible, adaptable, and allows users to perform a wide range of tasks with ease. It also provides a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Derek Groen , Agastya Bhati , James Suter , James Hetherington , Stefan Zasada , Peter Coveney

Wounding is a severe impairment of function, especially for an exposed organism like the network-forming true slime mould Physarum polycephalum. The tubular network making up the organism's body plan is entirely interconnected and shares a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-25 Felix Bäuerle , Mirna Kramar , Karen Alim

In this note we demonstrate that a number of case-heavy combinatorial proofs in the mathematical phylogenetics literature can be proven more compactly using computational support. We use these techniques to also prove several new…

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Surface-plasmon-polariton waves propagating at the interface between a metal and a dielectric, hold the key to future high-bandwidth, dense on-chip integrated logic circuits overcoming the diffraction limitation of photonics. While recent…

Living organisms survive and multiply even though they have uncertain and incomplete information about their environment and imperfect models to predict the consequences of their actions. Bayesian models have been proposed to face this…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Jacques Droulez , David Colliaux , Audrey Houillon , Pierre Bessière

Cirquent calculus is a proof system with inherent ability to account for sharing subcomponents in logical expressions. Within its framework, this article constructs an axiomatization CL18 of the basic propositional fragment of computability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Giorgi Japaridze

The speed and the versatility of today's computers open up new opportunities to simulate complex biological systems. Here we review a computational approach recently proposed by us to model large tumor cell populations and spheroids, and we…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2010-12-13 Roberto Chignola , Alessio Del Fabbro , Marcello Farina , Edoardo Milotti