Architectures and design methodologies for bio-inspired computing machines

Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware for Evolving Bio-Inspired Architectures

During the last few years, reconfigurable computing devices have experienced an impressive development in their resource availability, speed, and configurability. Currently, commercial FPGAs offer the possibility of self-reconfiguring by partially modifying their configuration bit-string, providing high architectural flexibility, while guaranteeing high performance. On the other hand, we have b...

Bio-inspired computing tissues: towards machines that evolve, grow, and learn.

Biological inspiration in the design of computing machines could allow the creation of new machines with promising characteristics such as fault-tolerance, self-replication or cloning, reproduction, evolution, adaptation and learning, and growth. The aim of this paper is to introduce bio-inspired computing tissues that might constitute a key concept for the implementation of 'living' machines. ...

Bio-urban design and the Hidden Rules of Nature

There was a turning point in each period of time which human has discovered a new sight about the world and nature order in a way, and then has presented this relation by numeral, artful and industrial language. Biourbanism focuses on the urban organism, considering it as a hyper complex system, according to its internal and external dynamics and their mutual interactions. Nowadays when it is t...

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (Part I)

Nature is an unlimited source of resilient, robust, fine tuned, complex mechanisms and phenomena which have been the subject of exploration and exploitation in science and engineering. In particular, understanding complex cooperative systems in nature has driven computer scientists and practitioners to outstanding developments ranging from versatile models and architectures to highly effective ...

Bio-Inspired Computing Architectures