3D Modelling of Biological Systems for Biomimetics

Biological adhesives: from biology to biomimetics

Exploring the Innovational Potential of Biomimetics for Novel 3D MEMS

A novel way to describe the complexity of biological and engineering approaches depending on the number of different base materials is proposed: Either many materials are used (material dominates) or few materials (form dominates) or just one material (structure dominates). The complexity of the approach (in biology as well as in engineering) increases with decreasing number of base materials. ...

Modelling of 3D Cadastral Systems

OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 9, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands, Tel +31 15 2786950, Fax +31 15 2782745 International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Hengelosestraat 99, 7514 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, Tel. +31 53 4874523, Fax + 31 53 4874575. Dutch Cadastre, Apeldoorn, P.O. Box 904...

Modelling Coordination in Biological Systems

We present an application of the Reo coordination paradigm to provide a compositional formal model for describing and reasoning about the behaviour of biological systems, such as regulatory gene networks. Reo governs the interaction and flow of data between components by allowing the construction of connector circuits which have a precise formal semantics. When applied to systems biology, the r...

On P Systems as a Modelling Tool for Biological Systems

We introduce a variant of P systems where rules have associated a real number providing a measure for the “intrinsic reactivity”of the rule and roughly corresponding to the kinetic coefficient which, in bio-chemistry, is usually associated to each molecular reaction. The behaviour of these P systems is then defined according to a strategy which, in each step, randomly selects the next rule to b...