Research Catalog

Title

Computing with biological metaphors / edited by Ray Paton.

Publication

London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Paton, Ray

Description

x, 446 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Subject

• Biotechnology > Data processing
• Genetic algorithms
• Neural computers
• Biology Use of Computers

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Introduction to computing with biological metaphors / Ray Paton -- 2. From VLSI through machine models to cellular metabolism / Mike Holcombe -- 3. Developing a logical tool to analyse biological regulatory networks / Rene Thomas and Denis Thieffry -- 4. The computational machinery of the living cell / G. Rick Welch -- 5. Enzymes, automata and artificial cells / Pedro C. Marijuan -- 6. The molecular computer / Chris Winter -- 7. Computing dendritic growth / Patrick Hamilton -- 8. The brain as a metaphor for sixth generation computing / Michael Arbib -- 9. ART 3: hierarchical search using chemical transmitters in self-organizing pattern recognition architectures / Gail A. Carpenter and Stephen Grossberg -- 10. Fluid neural networks as a model of intelligent biological systems / Frank T. Vertosick, Jr. -- 11. The immune learning mechanisms: reinforcement, recruitment and their applications / Hugues Bersini and Francisco Varela -- 12. Artificial tissue models / W. Richard Stark.
• 13. Streaming organism: the tissue automat / Gershom Zajicek -- 14. Evolutionary algorithms: comparison of approaches / Thomas Back -- 15. Artificial evolution and the paradox of sex / Robert J. Collins -- 16. Both Wrightian and 'parasite' peak shifts enhance genetic algorithm performance in the traveling salesman problem / Brian H. Sumida and William D. Hamilton -- 17. Evolution of emergent cooperative behavior using genetic programming / John R. Koza -- 18. An evolutionary approach to designing neural networks / Aviv Bergman -- 19. Free the spirit of evolutionary computing: the ecological genetic algorithm paradigm / Yuval Davidor -- 20. The ecology of computation / Bernardo A. Huberman -- 21. An ecological analysis of a system for detecting nods of the head / Ian Horswill -- 22. Socio-ecological metaphors and autonomous agents in computer supported cooperative authorship / Geof Staniford -- 23. The importance of selectionist systems for cognition / Bernard Manderick.
• 24. Life-like computing beyond the machine metaphor / George Kampis -- 25. Nature's machine: mimesis, the analog computer and the rhetoric of technology / James M. Nyce -- 26. Computing with biological metaphors - some conceptual issues / Ray Paton.

ISBN

0412544709 :

LCCN

gb 94088308

OCLC

ocm31518926

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries