Chemotaxis-Inspired Cellular Primitives for Self-Organizing Shape Formation

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• author = "Linge Bai and David E. Breen",
• title = "Chemotaxis-Inspired Cellular Primitives for Self-Organizing Shape Formation",
• booktitle = "Morphogenetic Engineering",
• publisher = "Springer",
• year = "2012",
• editor = "Rene Doursat and Hiroki Sayama and Olivier Michel",
• series = "Understanding Complex Systems",
• chapter = "9",
• pages = "209--237",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
• isbn13 = "978-3-642-33901-1",
• annote = "The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives",
• bibsource = "OAI-PMH server at citeseerx.ist.psu.edu",
• language = "en",
• oai = "oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.306.4523",
• rights = "Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it.",
• URL = "http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.306.4523",
• URL = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33902-8_9",
• DOI = "doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33902-8_9",
• size = "29 pages",
• abstract = "Motivated by the ability of living cells to form specific shapes and structures, we are investigating chemotaxis-inspired cellular primitives for self-organising shape formation. This chapter details our initial effort to create Morphogenetic Primitives (MPs), software agents that may be programmed to self-organise into user specified 2D shapes. The interactions of MPs are inspired by chemotaxis-driven aggregation behaviours exhibited by actual living cells. Cells emit a chemical into their environment. Each cell responds to the stimulus by moving in the direction of the gradient of the cumulative chemical field detected at its surface. The artificial chemical fields of individual MPs are explicitly defined as mathematical functions. Genetic programming is used to discover the chemical field functions that produce an automated shape formation capability. We describe the cell-based behaviours of MPs and a distributed genetic programming method that discovers the chemical fields needed to produce macroscopic shapes from simple aggregating primitives. Several examples of aggregating MPs demonstrate that chemotaxis is an effective paradigm for spatial self-organization algorithms.",

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