Authors:
André Stauffer
;
Daniel Mange
and
Joël Rossier
Affiliation:
Logic Systems Laboratory, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Keyword(s):
Self-organization, configuration, cloning, cicatrization, regeneration.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Evolutionary Systems
Abstract:
Living organisms are endowed with three structural principles: multicellular architecture, cellular division, and cellular differentiation. Implemented in digital according to these principles, our data and signals cellular systems present self-organizing mechanisms like configuration, cloning, cicatrization, and regeneration. These mechanisms are made of simple processes such as growth, load, branching, repair, reset, and kill. The data processed in the
self-organizing mechanisms and the signals triggering their underlying processes constitute the core of this paper.