ISBN-13: 9789814327589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 280 str.
A Physarum machine is a programmable amorphous biological computer experimentally implemented in the vegetative state of true slime mould Physarum polycephalum. This book shows how to create experimental Physarum machines for computational geometry and optimization, distributed manipulation and transportation, and general-purpose computation.