Bio-inspired computing

Bio-inspired computing
Bio-inspired computing, short for biologically inspired computing, is a field of study that loosely knits together subfields related to the topics of connectionism, social behaviour and emergence. It is often closely related to the field of artificial intelligence, as many of its pursuits can be linked to machine learning. It relies heavily on the fields of biology, computer science and mathematics. Briefly put, it is the use of computers to model nature, and simultaneously the study of nature to improve the usage of computers. Biologically inspired computing is a major subset of natural computation.

Areas of research
Some areas of study encompassed under the canon of biologically inspired computing, and their biological counterparts: genetic algorithms evolution biodegradability prediction biodegradation cellular automata life emergent systems ants, termites, bees, wasps neural networks the brain artificial life life artificial immune systems immune system rendering (computer graphics) patterning and rendering of animal skins, bird feathers, mollusk shells and bacterial colonies Lindenmayer systems plant structures communication networks and protocols epidemiology and the spread of disease membrane computers intra-membrane molecular processes in the living cell excitable media forest fires, "the wave", heart conditions, axons, etc. sensor networks sensory organs

Bio-inspired computing and AI

The way in which bio-inspired computing differs from traditional artificial intelligence (AI) is in how it takes a more evolutionary approach to learning, as opposed to the what could be described as 'creationist' methods used in traditional AI. In traditional AI, intelligence is often programmed from above: the programmer is the creator, and makes something and imbues it with its intelligence. Bio-inspired computing, on the other hand, takes a more bottom-up, decentralised approach; bio-inspired techniques often involve the method of specifying a set of simple rules, a set of simple organisms which adhere to those rules, and a method of iteratively applying those rules. After several generations of rule application it is usually the case that some forms of complex behaviour arise. Complexity gets built upon complexity until the end result is something markedly complex, and quite often completely counterintuitive from what the original rules would be expected to produce (see complex systems). For this reason, in neural network models, it is necessary to accurately model an in vivo network, by live collection of "noise" coefficients that can be used to refine statistical inference and extrapolation as system complexity increases.[1] Natural evolution is a good analogy to this methodthe rules of evolution (selection, recombination/reproduction, mutation and more recently transposition) are in principle simple rules, yet over thousands of years have produced remarkably complex organisms. A similar technique is used in genetic algorithms.

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References
[1] http:/ / www. duke. edu/ ~jme17/ Joshua_E. _Mendoza-Elias/ Research_Interests. html#Neuroscience_-_Neural_Plasticity_in

Further reading
(the following are presented in ascending order of complexity and depth, with those new to the field suggested to start from the top) " Biologically Inspired Computing (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~jbongard/papers/2009_IEEEComp_Bongard. pdf)" " Digital Biology (http://peterjbentley.com/)", Peter J. Bentley. " First International Symposium on Biologically Inspired Computing (http://bic05.fsksm.utm.my/)" Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software, Steven Johnson. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Apr-1991. (Issue theme: Biocomputing) Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams, Mitchel Resnick. Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics, Daniel Kaplan and Leon Glass. Fundamentals of Natural Computing: Basic Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications, L. N. de Castro, Chapman & Hall/CRC, June 2006. " The Computational Beauty of Nature (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/home.html)", Gary William Flake (http://flakenstein.net/). MIT Press. 1998, hardcover ed.; 2000, paperback ed. An in-depth discussion of many of the topics and underlying themes of bio-inspired computing. Kevin M. Passino, Biomimicry for Optimization, Control, and Automation, Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 2005. Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing, L. N. de Castro and F. J. Von Zuben, Idea Group Publishing, 2004. Nancy Forbes, Imitation of Life: How Biology is Inspiring Computing, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2004. " Biologically Inspired Computing Lecture Notes (http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/i-bic/)", Luis M. Rocha The portable UNIX programming system (PUPS) and CANTOR: a computational envorionment for dynamical representation and analysis of complex neurobiological data, Mark A. O'Neill, and Claus-C Hilgetag, Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 356 (2001), 12591276 " Going Back to our Roots: Second Generation Biocomputing (http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0512071)", J. Timmis, M. Amos, W. Banzhaf, and A. Tyrrell, Journal of Unconventional Computing 2 (2007) 349 - 378.

External links
Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) (http://www2.surrey.ac.uk/computing/research/bima/) Group, University of Surrey, UK ALife Project in Sussex (http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/ezequiel/alife-page/development.html) Biologically Inspired Computation for Chemical Sensing Neurochem Project (http://www.neurochem-project. eu/) AND Corporation (http://www.andcorporation.com) Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (http://www.cercia.ac.uk/) Birmingham, UK BiSNET: Biologically-inspired architecture for Sensor NETworks (http://dssg.cs.umb.edu/wiki/index.php/ BiSNET) BiSNET/e: A Cognitive Sensor Networking Architecture with Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (http:// dssg.cs.umb.edu/wiki/index.php/BiSNET/e) Biologically inspired neural networks (http://www.neuralnetworksolutions.com) NCRA (http://ncra.ucd.ie) UCD, Dublin Ireland

Bio-inspired computing The PUPS/P3 Organic Computing Environment for Linux (http://www.tumblingdice.co.uk/pupsp3) SymbioticSphere: A Biologically-inspired Architecture for Scalable, Adaptive and Survivable Network Systems (http://dssg.cs.umb.edu/wiki/index.php/SymbioticSphere) Bio-inspired Wireless Networking Team (BioNet) (http://www.bionet.ufpr.br)

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Article Sources and Contributors

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