EXPERIMENTS ON ARTIFICIAL DIGESTION.

Coordination games on small-worlds: Artificial agents vs. experiments

Effective coordination is a key social ingredient and social structure may be approximated by networks of contacts. Using Stag Hunt games, which provide socially efficient and inefficient equilibria, we compare our simulation results using artificial players and evolutionary game theory with laboratory experimental work with human subjects on small-world type networks and with theoretical resul...

An algorithm for analysing probed partial digestion experiments

A partial digestion of DNA (e.g. cosmid. Lambda, YAC, chromosome) is performed and the lengths of thoses fragments which hybridize to a labeled probe are measured using gel electrophoresis. We give an efficient algorithm that takes as input this experimental data and proposes one or more candidate solutions. Each solution designates the location of each restriction site and specifies the endpoi...

Graphical Evolution Experiments in Artificial Life

Artificial Intelligence and Large Scale Scientific Experiments

As ever larger scientific endeavors are made, it becomes even more crucial that they be designed, performed, and analyzed very carefully. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are seen as a methodology for automating some of the tasks involved in large scale scientific experimentation. Scientific experimentation, in turn, is seen as a methodology for improving the capabilities of AI through t...

A micro-artificial rumen for isotopic experiments.

An artificial rumen for the study of nutrient digestion by the micro-organisms of the rumen was initially developed by Louw, Williams & Maynard (1949). In this, the micro-organisms were contained in a semi-permeable dialysis sac and the diffusible products of digestion removed by a salt solution, the composition of which approximated to that of saliva and which flowed continuously past the outs...