Nature as Inspiration for Space Optimization and Products Multifunctionality

Nature as a Source of Inspiration of Architectural Conceptual Design

From the beginning of creation, human being was surrounded by nature. Everything in nature is well organized and in harmony with the other parts of it. Through the history, nature has been always a source of inspiration for the human begin in different aspects of their life. Architecture as one of the remarkable features in every society cannot be separated from nature. In architecture design...

Nature Inspiration for Support Vector Machines

We propose in this paper a new kernel, suited for Support Vector Machines learning, which is inspired from the biological world. The kernel is based on Gabor filters that are a good model for the response of the cells in the primary visual cortex and have been shown to be very effective in processing natural images. Furthermore, we build a link between energy-efficiency, which is a driving forc...

Indole diterpenoid natural products as the inspiration for new synthetic methods and strategies

Indole terpenoids comprise a large class of natural products with diverse structural topologies and a broad range of biological activities. Accordingly, indole terpenoids have and continue to serve as attractive targets for chemical synthesis. Many synthetic efforts over the past few years have focused on a subclass of this family, the indole diterpenoids. This minireview showcases the role ind...

Future Antibiotic Agents: Turning to Nature for Inspiration

Stigmergic Optimization: Inspiration, Technologies and Perspectives

This Chapter summarizes some of the well known stigmergic computational techniques inspired by nature, mainly for optimization problems developed by mimicking social insects’ behavior. Some facts about social insects namely ants, bees and termites are presented with an emphasis on how they could interact and self organize for solving real world problems. We focused on ant colony optimization al...