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2008 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Computing by Swarm Networks
verfasst von : Teijiro Isokawa, Ferdinand Peper, Masahiko Mitsui, Jian-Qin Liu, Kenichi Morita, Hiroshi Umeo, Naotake Kamiura, Nobuyuki Matsui
Erschienen in: Cellular Automata
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Though the regular and fixed structure of cellular automata greatly contributes to their simplicity, it imposes a strict limitation on the applications that can be modeled by them. This paper proposes
swarm networks
, a model in which cells, unlike in cellular automata, have irregular neighborhoods. Timed asynchronously, a cell in this model acts like an
agent
that can dynamically interact with a varying set of other cells under the control of transition rules. The configurations in which cells are organized according to their neighborhoods can move around in space, following simple mechanical laws. We prove computational universality of this model by simulating a circuit consisting of asynchronously timed circuit modules. The proposed model may find applications in nanorobotic systems and artifical biological systems.