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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Decision-Making at the Cellular Level: The Physarum Paradigm

Author : Stamatios C. Nicolis

Published in: Advances in Physarum Machines

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

A new paradigm of decision-making is analyzed focusing on a binary choice, between two source of food, made by slime mould Physarum polycephalum. Mean-field and probabilistic approaches are developed and the results are compared to experiment.

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Metadata
Title
Decision-Making at the Cellular Level: The Physarum Paradigm
Author
Stamatios C. Nicolis
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Advances in Physarum Machines

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-26661-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-26662-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26662-6_32

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