Computers from Plants We Never Made: Speculations
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author = "Andrew Adamatzky and Simon Harding and
Victor Erokhin and Richard Mayne and Nina Gizzie and
Frantisek Baluska and Stefano Mancuso and Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis",
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title = "Computers from Plants We Never Made: Speculations",
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booktitle = "Inspired by Nature: Essays Presented to Julian F.
Miller on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday",
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publisher = "Springer",
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year = "2017",
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editor = "Susan Stepney and Andrew Adamatzky",
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volume = "28",
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series = "Emergence, Complexity and Computation",
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chapter = "17",
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pages = "357--387",
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keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
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isbn13 = "978-3-319-67996-9",
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DOI = "doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67997-6_17",
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abstract = "Plants are highly intelligent organisms. They
continuously make distributed processing of sensory
information, concurrent decision making and parallel
actuation. The plants are efficient green computers per
se. Outside in nature, the plants are programmed and
hardwired to perform a narrow range of tasks aimed to
maximize the plants ecological distribution, survival
and reproduction. To persuade plants to solve tasks
outside their usual range of activities, we must either
choose problem domains which homomorphic to the plants
natural domains or modify biophysical properties of
plants to make them organic electronic devices. We
discuss possible designs and prototypes of computing
systems that could be based on morphological
development of roots, interaction of roots, and
analogue electrical computation with plants, and
plant-derived electronic components. In morphological
plant processors data are represented by initial
configuration of roots and configurations of sources of
attractants and repellents; results of computation are
represented by topology of the roots network.
Computation is implemented by the roots following
gradients of attractants and repellents, as well as
interacting with each other. Problems solvable by plant
roots, in principle, include shortest-path, minimum
spanning tree, Voronoi diagram, alpha-shapes, convex
subdivision of concave polygons. Electrical properties
of plants can be modified by loading the plants with
functional nanoparticles or coating parts of plants of
conductive polymers. Thus, we are in position to make
living variable resistors, capacitors, operational
amplifiers, multipliers, potentiometers and
fixed-function generators. The electrically modified
plants can implement summation, integration with
respect to time, inversion, multiplication,
exponentiation, logarithm, division. Mathematical and
engineering problems to be solved can be represented in
plant root networks of resistive or reaction elements.
Developments in plant-based computing architectures
will trigger emergence of a unique community of
biologists, electronic engineering and computer
scientists working together to produce living
electronic devices which future green computers will be
made of.",
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notes = "part of \cite{miller60book}
https://link.springer.com/bookseries/10624",
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Genetic Programming entries for
Andrew Adamatzky
Simon Harding
Victor Erokhin
Richard Mayne
Nina Gizzie
Frantisek Baluska
Stefano Mancuso
Georgios Ch Sirakoulis
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