Admatsky, Andrew and Akl, Selim and Alonso-Sanz, Ramon and van Dessel, Wesley and Ibrahim, Zuwaire and Ilachinski, Andrew and Jones, Jeff and Kayem, Anne V.D.M. and Martinez, Genaro and de Oliveria, Pedro and Propenko, Mikhail and Schubert, Theresa and Sloot, Peter and Strano, Emmanuele and Yang, Xie-She (2012) Are Motorways Rational from Slime Mould's Point of View?, International Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems.
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We analyse the results of our experimental laboratory approximation of motorways networks with slime mould Physarum polycephalum. Motorway networks of fourteen geographical areas are considered: Australia, Africa, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, UK, USA. For each geographical entity we represented major urban areas by oat flakes and inoculated the slime mould in a capital. After slime mould spanned all urban areas with a network of its protoplasmic tubes we extracted a generalised Physarum graph from the network and compared the graphs with an abstract motorway graph using most common measures. The measures employed are the number of independent cycles, cohesion, shortest paths lengths, diameter, the Harary index and the Randic index. We obtained a series of intriguing results, and found that the slime mould approximates best of all the motorway graphs of Belgium, Canada and China, and that for all entities studied the best match between Physarum and motorway graphs is detected by the Randic index (molecular branching index).
| Item Type: | Journal article (online only) |
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| Additional Information: | Abstract computational model based on Slime mould |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Trans-African Highways, Slime Mould, Computing |
| Subjects: | Computer systems organization > Architectures > Other architectures Theory of computation > Models of computation > Abstract machines Computer systems organization > Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks |
| Alternate Locations: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2851 |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2012 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:33 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/816 |
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