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The slime mold algorithm is a meta-heuristic algorithm, based on the behavior of aggregated slime molds as they stream in search of food. It is described as a simple, efficient, and flexible way of solving optimization problems , such as finding the shortest path between nodes in a network.
The mold directed the robot into a dark corner most similar to its natural habitat. Slime molds are sometimes studied in advanced mathematics courses. Slime mold aggregation is a natural process that can be approximated with partial differential equations. [citation needed]
Life cycle. Dictyostelium discoideum is a species of soil-dwelling amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa.Commonly referred to as slime mold, D. discoideum is a eukaryote that transitions from a collection of unicellular amoebae into a multicellular slug and then into a fruiting body within its lifetime.
They received this prize with the discovery of slime molds being able to solve mazes. [7] Atsushi Tero won the Ig Nobel Prize with Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi, Dan Bebber, and Mark Fricker in Transportation Planning in 2010. They received this prize for using slime molds to depict ...
Individual cells of cellular slime moulds coordinate to produce complex structures or move as multicellular entities. [3] Biologist John Bonner pointed out that although slime molds are “no more than a bag of amoebae encased in a thin slime sheath, they manage to have various behaviors that are equal to those of animals who possess muscles and nerves with ganglia-- that is, simple brains ...
Logical circuits can be built with slime moulds. [13] Distributed systems experiments have used them to approximate motorway graphs. [14] The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is able to compute high-quality approximate solutions to the Traveling Salesman Problem, a combinatorial test with exponentially increasing complexity, in linear time. [15]
Physarum polycephalum, an acellular [1] slime mold or myxomycete popularly known as "the blob", [2] is a protist with diverse cellular forms and broad geographic distribution. The “acellular” moniker derives from the plasmodial stage of the life cycle : the plasmodium is a bright yellow macroscopic multinucleate coenocyte shaped in a ...
She is best known for her work with slime mould. [1] and in 2014 gave a TED talk about slime mould. [2] She is the founding member of SLIMOCO: The Slime Mould Collective, a group of scientists and artists who work with slime mould. [3] She was also the 2014 "Artist-in-Restaurant" at the London restaurant Pied-a-Terre.