Transactions on Computational Systems Biology X

by Corrado Priami (Editor), Falko Dressler (Editor), Ozgur B. Akan (Editor), Alioune Ngom (Editor)

Overview

Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at many levels, from the globalInternetdowntomicroandnanodevices. Manyof thesedevicesarehighly mobile and autonomous and must adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally unsupervised way. A fundamental research challenge is the design of robust decentralized c- puting systemsthat arecapableofoperating in changing environmentsandwith noisy input, and yet exhibit the desired behavior and response time, under c- straints such as energy consumption, size, and processing power. These systems should be able to adapt and learn how to react to unforeseen scenarios as well as to display properties comparable to social entities. The observation of nature has brought us many great and unforeseen concepts. Biological systems are able to handle many of these challenges with an elegance and efficiency far beyond currenthumanartifacts. Based on this observation, bio-inspired approaches have been proposed as a means of handling the complexity of such systems. The goal is to obtain methods to engineer technical systems, which are of a stability and efficiency comparable to those found in biological entities. This Special Issue on Biological and Biologically-inspired Communication contains the best papers from the Second International Conference on Bio- Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONET- ICS 2007). The BIONETICS conference aims to bring together researchers and scientists from several disciplines incomputerscienceandengineeringwhereb- inspired methods are investigated, as well as from bioinformatics, to deepen the information exchange and collaboration among the different communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540922728
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	02/13/2009
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #5410
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	197
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Biological and Biologically-Inspired Communication.- Towards a Self-structured Grid: An Ant-Inspired P2P Algorithm.- Robustness to Code and Data Deletion in Auatalytic Quines.- A Computational Scheme Based on Random Boolean Networks.- On Channel Capacity and Error Compensation in Molecular Communication.- Molecular Communication through Gap Junction Channels.- Clustering Time-Series Gene Expression Data with Unequal Time Intervals.- Integrating Thermodynamic and Observed-Frequency Data for Non-coding RNA Gene Search.- An Evolutionary Approach to the Non-unique Oligonucleotide Probe Selection Problem.- Shastic—-Calculus Modelling of Multisite Phosphorylation Based Signaling: The PHO Pathway in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.