Modelling Computational Behaviour of Physarum

Abstract

In this part of the book we firstly examine how the multi-agent model reproduces the computational approximations first seen in slime mould which was initiated by the research of Nakagaki [183] who observed that the Physarum plasmodium was capable of solving simple maze problems. This initial work was significantly extended in terms of computational breadth, notably by the works of Adamatzky (see [4] for an overview). The first chapter in this section builds upon the simulation of the biological behaiour of Physarum given in Chapter 4 and examines how the model plasmodium computes by network formation and adaptation.