PhyChip 2015 - Physarum Machines: Slime Mould Computing and Novel Computing Substrates Workshop

Plasmodium of acellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a gigantic single cell visible by unaided eye. The cell shows a rich spectrum of behavioural morphological patterns in response to changing environmental conditions. Given data represented by chemical or physical stimuli we can employ and modify the behaviour of the slime mould to make it solve a range of computing and sensing tasks. We invited contributions on software, hardware and wetware realisations of slime mould computers. Exemplar topics of the submissions could be as follows: Hybrid wetware+hardware devices, Slime mould based electronic, Physarum inspired algorithms on graphs and networks, Computing models and prototypes of slime mould computers, Physarum inspired calculi and logic, Slime mould inspired algorithms of evacuation, Computing oriented biology of slime mould, Neuromorphic devices made of the slime mould,Cognitive functions modelled with the slime mould, Physarum in arts and music, Slime mould sensors, Cellular automata and particle based models of Physarum, Physarum inspired robots, Physarum controllers, Novel materials inspired by slime mould, Physarum and transport networks, Slime mould intelligence, Space exploration with slime mould.