EPSRC Novel Computation Research Cluster : July -- Dec 2003
EIVIS
What Emerges when in vivo meets in silico
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Our Research Cluster is developing proposals in the areas of
nature inspired computation (biological, chemical, and physical) and self
organised criticality (systems that maintain themselves in the
computationally interesting dynamical state at "the edge of chaos"). We
are exploiting and combining our expertise of in vivo (biological) and in silico
(physical hardware) systems, to build both experimental and theoretical
research models of how global behaviour emerges from vast numbers
of interconnected simple agents (natural and artificial neurons, cells,
social insects, ...), all operating with no need for centralised control.
members: BAE Systems, Qinetiq,
York, Manchester,
Edinburgh, Kent,
UWE, Sunderland,
Birmingham, UCL, UMIST, Imperial
- This "six month cluster" has now submitted its final report to EPSRC