Biologically inspired crack delocalization in a high strain-rate environment

Biologically inspired crack trapping for enhanced adhesion.

We present a synthetic adaptation of the fibrillar adhesion surfaces found in nature. The structure consists of protruding fibrils topped by a thin plate and shows an experimentally measured enhancement in adhesion energy of up to a factor of 9 over a flat control. Additionally, this structure solves the robustness problems of previous mimic structures and has preferred contact properties (i.e....

Biologically inspired future service environment

In recent years, a major factor that has attracted numerous users to the Internet is services, and it is anticipated that this trend will continue into the future. As the Internet of the future becomes increasingly service centric, this brings with it a number of well established challenges. With large volumes of services, service discovery becomes one of the most decisive issues, and even fund...

A Biologically Inspired Classifier

We present a method for measuring the distance among records based on the correlations of data stored in the corresponding database entries. The original method (F. Bagnoli, A. Berrones and F. Franci. Physica A 332 (2004) 509-518) was formulated in the context of opinion formation. The opinions expressed over a set of topic originate a “knowledge network” among individuals, where two individual...

BioSENSE: Biologically-inspired Secure Elastic Networked Sensor Environment

Expressiveness in biologically inspired languages

A very recent and exciting new area of research is the application of Concurrency Theory tools to formalize and analyze biological systems and one of the most promising approach comes from the process algebras (process calculi). A process calculus is a formal language that allows to describe concurrent systems and comes with well-established techniques for quantitative and qualitative analysis....