| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S63786/02 |
| Title: |
SEEDS: Scalable, Evolvable, Emergent, Developmental Systems |
| Principal Investigator: |
Miller, Dr J |
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| Department: |
Electronics |
| Organisation: |
University of York |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 2003 |
Ends: |
30 June 2004 |
Value (£): |
50,067
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| Complexity Science |
New & Emerging Comp. Paradigms |
| Theoretical biology |
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The Research Cluster is concerned with understanding, constructing and programming extremely large collections of interacting entities. The entities are modelled or inspired by biological systems: genetic regulatory networks, organisms, insect societies, brains. Living systems exhibit many properties that might be useful in manmade systems: self-repair, self-reproduction, intelligence, adaptivity, etc. The Research Cluster aims to discuss and devise high quality research proposals that try to understand, and utilise biologically inspired models of decentralised computation. This will involve examining how computationally tractable models of genetic regulatory networks embedded within cells can construct structures that self-repair or carry out global computation. The Cluster is also concerned with models of growing, brain-like computation that utilise models of dendritic branching that are influenced by environmental factors. These models will utilise genetic regulatory networks and cellular development since real brains are constructed in this way. Computation and self-repair in models of insect colonies will also be studied. The dominant theme of the Cluster is to try to devise the rules that simpler entities might obey that allow very large collections of these entities to perform useful computation.
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