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Advances in Biologically Inspired Information Systems

Models, Methods, and Tools

  • Recent advances in biologically inspired information systems
  • Presents models, methods, and tools
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 69)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Self-Organizing Network Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 2-2
    2. Bio-inspired Framework for Autonomic Communication Systems

      • Mícheál ó Foghlú, John Strassner
      Pages 3-19
    3. Biologically Inspired Synchronization for Wireless Networks

      • Alexander Tyrrell, Gunther Auer, Christian Bettstetter
      Pages 47-62
  3. System Design and Programming

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 100-100
    2. Context Data Dissemination in the Bio-inspired Service Life Cycle

      • Carsten Jacob, David Linner, Heiko Pfeffer, Ilja Radusch, Stephan Steglich
      Pages 101-122
    3. Eigenvector Centrality in Highly Partitioned Mobile Networks: Principles and Applications

      • Iacopo Carreras, Daniele Miorandi, Geoffrey S. Canright, Kenth Engø-Monsen
      Pages 123-145
    4. Toward Organization-Oriented Chemical Programming: A Case Study with the Maximal Independent Set Problem

      • Naoki Matsumaru, Thorsten Lenser, Thomas Hinze, Peter Dittrich
      Pages 147-163
    5. Evolving Artificial Cell Signaling Networks: Perspectives and Methods

      • James Decraene, George G. Mitchell, Barry McMullin
      Pages 165-184
  4. Sensor and Actor Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 186-186
    2. A Bio-Inspired Architecture for Division of Labour in SANETs

      • Thomas Halva Labella, Falko Dressler
      Pages 209-228
    3. A Pragmatic Model of Attention and Anticipation for Active Sensor Systems

      • Sorin M. Iacob, Johan De Heer, Alfons H. Salden
      Pages 229-243
  5. Search and Optimization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 246-246
    2. A Bio-Inspired Location Search Algorithm for Peer to Peer Networks

      • Sachin Kulkarni, Niloy Ganguly, Geoffrey Canright, Andreas Deutsch
      Pages 267-282
    3. Ant Colony Optimization and its Application to Regular and Dynamic MAX-SAT Problems

      • Pedro C. Pinto, Thomas A. Runkler, João M. C. Sousa
      Pages 283-302

About this book

Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways and at multiple scales, from the global Internet down to micro and nano devices. Many of these devices are highly mobile and must adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally unsupervised way.

A fundamental research challenge is the design of robust decentralized computing systems that are capable of operating under changing environments and noisy input, and yet exhibit the desired behavior and response time, under constraints such as energy consumption, size, and processing power.

Biological systems are able to handle many of these challenges with an elegance and efficiency still far beyond current human artifacts. The goal is to obtain methods on how to engineer technical systems, which have similar high stability and efficiency.

With this book, we present a comprehensive overview of the most promising research directions in the area of bio-inspired computing. According to the broad spectrum addressed by the different book chapters, a rich variety of biological principles and their application to ICT systems are presented.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

    Falko Dressler

  • CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

    Iacopo Carreras

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Biologically Inspired Information Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Models, Methods, and Tools

  • Editors: Falko Dressler, Iacopo Carreras

  • Series Title: Studies in Computational Intelligence

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72693-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-72692-0Published: 09 July 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09176-6Published: 20 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-72693-7Published: 03 July 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1860-949X

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-9503

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 302

  • Topics: Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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