Slime mold hungry. Slime mold build op-tee-mul network.

Science Express article here (open access),
Science Magazine article here and accompanying Perspectives
piece here.


Reference:
A. Tero et al.,
“Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design”
Science, Vol. 237, pp. 439-442, 2010.

Tags: slime mold, optimality, evolution, robustness

The Economist ponders agent based models.

Tags: models, agentbasedmodels, prediction, crises, robustness