s of Communications 565th Meeting of the Biochemical Society University of Stirling 9 and 10 September 1976 CONTROL M ECH AN ISMS I N D I FFER ENTl AT1 ON AND DEVELOPMENT: a Colloquium organized by L. Stevens (Stirling) Control of Cell Differentiation in the Cellular Slime Mould Dictyostelium discoideum

Slime Mould Algorithm (SMA) is a new meta-heuristics algorithm that inspired by the behaviors of slime mould from nature. Due to its effective performance, SMA has shown competitive performance among other algorithms and been used in many mathematical optimization real-world problems. However, tends sink into local optimality lacks diversity population. Therefore, cope with drawbacks classical ...

Young slugs of the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum drop small numbers of individual amoebae (approximately 10/mm) in the slime trail. With increased time of migration, slugs develop trailing tails and leave clumps of cells in their slime trails. Using reciprocal transplants between tips of young and old slugs and between a wild-type strain and an 'aged" mutant it was shown that th...

Very simple organisms, such as the single-celled amoeboid slime mould Physarum polycephalum possess no neural tissue yet, despite this, are known to exhibit complex biological and computational behaviour. Given such limited resources, can environmental stimuli play a role in generating the complexity of slime mould’s behaviour? We use a multi-agent collective model of slime mould to explore a t...