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Cancer, Complexity, Computation

  • Gives an unequivocal slice of all areas that relate to a quest for understanding cancer
  • Appeals to medical scientists, computer scientists, biologists, and mathematicians
  • Presents attractive reading for a general audience because all topics are presented in a lively manner

Part of the book series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation (ECC, volume 46)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. What Cancer Is

    • J. James Frost
    Pages 1-18
  3. Quantitative In Vivo Imaging to Enable Tumour Forecasting and Treatment Optimization

    • Guillermo Lorenzo, David A. Hormuth II, Angela M. Jarrett, Ernesto A. B. F. Lima, Shashank Subramanian, George Biros et al.
    Pages 55-97
  4. The Effect of Over-Feeding in a Computational Model of Tumour Growth

    • Pan Pantziarka, Lina Ghibelli, Albrecht Reichle
    Pages 99-116
  5. Modeling Tumour Growth with a Modulated Game of Life Cellular Automaton Under Global Coupling

    • Vladimir García-Morales, José A. Manzanares, Javier Cervera
    Pages 117-131
  6. Pinning Control to Regulate Cellular Response in Cancer for the p53-Mdm2 Genetic Regulatory Network

    • Oscar J. Suarez, Carlos J. Vega, Edgar N. Sanchez, Guanrong Chen, Ana E. González-Santiago, Otoniel Rodríguez-Jorge et al.
    Pages 133-155
  7. Heterogeneous Tumour Modeling Using PhysiCell and Its Implications in Precision Medicine

    • MiloÅ¡ Savić, Vladimir Kurbalija, Igor Balaz, Mirjana Ivanović
    Pages 157-189
  8. A Haploid-Diploid Evolutionary Algorithm Optimizing Nanoparticle Based Cancer Treatments

    • Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas, Larry Bull, Andrew Adamatzky, Igor Balaz
    Pages 237-251
  9. Drawbacks of Bench to Bed Translation of Nanomedicines for Cancer Treatment

    • Petra Gener, Anna Ulldemolins, Simo Schwartz Jr.
    Pages 253-267
  10. Swarms: The Next Frontier for Cancer Nanomedicine

    • Matimba Swana, Johanna Blee, Namid Stillman, Jonathan Ives, Sabine Hauert
    Pages 269-288
  11. Study of Tumour Induced Vessel Displacement in the Tumour Progression Rate with Advanced Bioinspired Computational Tools

    • Ioannis Karafyllidis, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Raphael Sandaltzopoulos
    Pages 289-308
  12. Complexities of Drug Resistance in Cancer: An Overview of Strategies and Mathematical Models

    • Benedetta Casadei, Marta Giacosa, Alessandro Maula, Sara Plos, Letizia Zappulla, Camilla Viotto et al.
    Pages 309-332
  13. The Immune System in Health and Disease: The Need for Personalised Longitudinal Monitoring

    • Hector Zenil, Abicumaran Uthamacumaran, Kourosh Saeb-Parsy
    Pages 333-347
  14. Correction to: The Immune System in Health and Disease: The Need for Personalised Longitudinal Monitoring

    • Hector Zenil, Abicumaran Uthamacumaran, Kourosh Saeb-Parsy
    Pages C1-C1

About this book

This book presents unique compendium of groundbreaking ideas where scientists from many different backgrounds are united in their interest in interdisciplinary approaches towards origins and development of cancers, innovative ways of searching for cancer treatment and the role of cancer in the evolution. Chapters give an unequivocal slice of all areas that relate to a quest for understanding cancer and its origin as many-fold nonlinear system, complexity of the cancer developments, a search for cancer treatment using  artificial intelligence and evolutionary optimisation, novel modelling techniques, molecular origin of cancer, the role of cancer in evolution of species, interpretation of cancer in terms of artificial life and artificial immune systems, swarm intelligence, cellular automata, computational systems biology, genetic networks, cellular computing,  validation through in vitro/vivo tumour models and tumour on chip devices. The book is an inspiring blend of theoretical and experimental results, concepts and paradigms.

Distinctive features

The book advances widely popular topics of  cancer origin, treatment and understanding of its progress

The book is comprised of unique chapters written by world top experts in  theoretical and applied oncology, complexity theory, mathematics, computer science.

The book illustrates attractive examples of mathematical and computer models and experimental setups.


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Igor Balaz

  • Unconventional Computing Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Andrew Adamatzky

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cancer, Complexity, Computation

  • Editors: Igor Balaz, Andrew Adamatzky

  • Series Title: Emergence, Complexity and Computation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04379-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04378-9Published: 12 August 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04381-9Published: 13 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04379-6Published: 11 August 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2194-7287

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-7295

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 347

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Complexity, Cancer Research

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