Physarum Machines. Selected Works

“The Physarum polycephalum slime mould is a large single cell capable for distributed sensing, concurrent information processing, parallel computation, and decentralized actuation. The ease of culturing and experimenting with Physarum polycephalum makes this slime mould an ideal substrate for real-world implementations of unconventional sensing and computing devices. The project Physarum Chip: Growing Computers from Slime Mould (its leader is prof. Andrew Adamatzky, the research is supported by the Seventh Framework Programme FP7-ICT-2011-8) focused on theoretical and experimental laboratory studies on sensing and computing properties of slime mould, and development of mathematical and logical theories of Physarum behaviour. The project resulted in the design and prototyping of a Physarum Chip. This book contains some selected works prepared by us within the Physarum Chip project. This book includes some papers written jointly with them.”

— prof. Andrew Adamatzky (Bristol, UK); dr Andrzej Szelc (Rzeszów, Poland)