Biologically-inspired approaches are one of the most promising approaches to realize highly-adaptive distributed systems. Biological systems inherently have self-∗ properties, such as self-stabilization, self-adaptation, self-configuration, self-optimization and self-healing. Thus, the application of biological systems into distributed systems has attracted a lot of attention recently. In this ...

Bio-inspired products and devices take their inspiration from nature [Gold00]. Current mechanical engineering curricula do not cover manufacturing techniques and principles needed to develop such products and devices. We have been enhancing the mechanical engineering undergraduate curriculum by integrating recent advances in the manufacturing of bioinspired products and devices through the foll...

The following two important features of human experts' knowledge are not realized by most evolutionary algorithms: one is that it is various and the other is that the amount of knowledge, including infrequently used knowledge, is large. To imitate these features, we introduce an activation value for individuals and a new variation-making operator, splitting, both of which are inspired by ecolog...

Image thresholding is well accepted and one of the most imperative practices to accomplish image segmentation. This has been widely studied over the past few decades. However, as the multi-level thresholding computationally takes more time when level increases, hence, in this article, quantum mechanism is used to propose six different quantum inspired meta-heuristic methods for performing multi...

We propose a new class of logics for specifying and model-checking properties of distributed systems Dynamic Epistemic Spatial Logics. They have been designed as extensions of Hennessy-Milner logic with spatial operators (inspired by Cardelli-Caires spatial logic) and epistemic operators (inspired by dynamic-epistemic logics). Our logics focus on observers, agents placed in different locations ...

Extraction of sugar is the rate-limiting step in converting unpretreated biomass into value-added products through microbial fermentation. Both anaerobic fungi and anaerobic bacteria have evolved to produce large multi-cellulase complexes referred to as cellulosomes, which are powerful machines for biomass deconstruction. Characterization of bacterial cellulosomes has inspired synthetic "design...

generally an important part of changes in architectural constructions are represented by convertible structures. these kinds of structures are composed typically of hard or soft materials or combination of both, which avoid independent structural deformations and need additional elements such as hinges, rollers or other similar components. development of new construction materials like fiber-re...