In this report the design, fabrication, and testing of inkjet-printed electrochromic pixels (ECPs) incorporating biochrome, xanthommatin (Xa) as programmable display units is described. As a redox sensitive chromophore, Xa present in some species physiological indicator with red (reduced) or yellow (oxidized) colors associated different behavioral developmental stages. These features have been ...

Even though sunlight is by far the most abundant renewable energy source available to humanity, its dilute and variable nature has kept efficient ways collect, store, distribute this tantalisingly out of reach. Turning incoherent supply provided Sun into a coherent laser beam would overcome several practical limitations inherent in using as clean energy: beams travel nearly losslessly over larg...

A bio-inspired multifunctionalized silk fibroin (BMS) was synthesized in order to mimic the interaction of nidogen with type IV collagen and laminin basement membranes. The designed BMS consists a motif ?-chain-derived, called IK peptide, covalently bound (SF) by using EDC/NHS coupling Cu-free click chemistry reaction, respectively. Silk chosen as main component because it is versatile biocompa...

There is an emerging research area to adopt bio-inspired algorithms to self-organize an information network system. Despite strong interests on their benefits, i.e. high robustness, adaptability, and scalability, the behavior of bio-inspired algorithms under non-negligible perturbation such as loss of information and failure of nodes observed in the realistic environment is not well investigate...

This paper discusses the notion of “core bio-inspired services” low-level services providing basic bio-inspired mechanisms, such as evaporation, aggregation or spreading shared by higher-level services or applications. Design patterns descriptions of self-organising mechanisms, such as gossip, morphogenesis, or foraging, show that these higherlevel mechanisms are composed of basic bio-inspired ...

Bio-inspired evolutionary algorithms are probabilistic search methods that mimic natural biological evolution. They show the behavior of the biological entities interacting locally with one another or with their environment to solve complex problems. This paper aims to analyze the most predominantly used bio-inspired optimization techniques that have been used for stock market prediction and he...

In this presentation, the advantages of bio-inspired vision sensors over conventional frame-based vision systems will be discussed. Examples of practical applications where bioinspired vision sensors perform better than frame-based systems will be given and explained. During the exposition, experimental results and videos recorded with bio-inspired frameless vision sensors will be shown.

This paper proposes a novel solution to spam detection inspired by a model of the adaptive immune system known as the cross-regulation model. We report on the testing of a preliminary algorithm on six e-mail corpora. We also compare our results with those obtained by the Naive Bayes classifier and another binary classification method we developed previously for biomedical text-mining applicatio...

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...

For the last few decades, optimization has been developing at a fast rate. Bio-inspired optimization algorithms are metaheuristics inspired by nature. These algorithms have been applied to solve different problems in engineering, economics, and other domains. Bio-inspired algorithms have also been applied in different branches of information technology such as networking and software engineerin...