1 MEG Unit, Brain Imaging Center, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2 School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 3 CSIRO Digital Productivity Flagship, Marsfield, NSW, Australia 4 Department of Non-linear Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany 5 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttinge...

Central pattern generator (CPG) is defined here as a neural network responsible for the production of the timing cues of a rhythmic motor output pattern. In biological system, the CPG is a network of neurons that generate the rhythmic movements such as locomotion of animals. This rhythmic movement will induced a coordination of physical parts that necessary for stable locomotion. To implement t...

Cloud computing provides internet-based services to access completely different reasonably service or resources, eliminating the requirement for centralized knowledge access. There are many challenges obtainable in cloud computing, wherever specific problems like resource provisioning, load imbalance and performance improvement are often solved exploitation bio-inspired algorithms. Bio-inspired...

The biological metaphor is an analogy between the biological world and the artificial world that enables us to benefit from artificial approaches by imitating some biological aspects while ignoring others. The biological metaphors, also called bio-inspired approaches, depend not only, on the biological field considered, but also on our understanding of that field and the paradigms and means we ...

Wireless ad-hoc networks are infrastructureless and they consist of nodes that come together and start communicating dynamically without requiring any backbone support. The nodes can enter and leave the network at will and can move about in the network at will. Ad-hoc networks present the perfect test-beds for bio-inspired computing algorithms. Both ad-hoc networks and bio-inspired computing ap...

Biologically inspired robotics is a rapidly emerging research area standing at the cross-cut of biology, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The structural and functional perfection of the biological creatures achieved through thousands of years of evolution in nature have made them a great source of inspiration for designing complex autonomous systems. Accordingly, robotics researchers have...

The need for a dynamic and scalable expansion of the grid infrastructure and resources and other scalability issues in terms of execution efficiency and fault tolerance present centralized management techniques with numerous difficulties. In this chapter we present the case for biologically inspired grid resource management techniques that are decentralized and self organized in nature. To achi...

The notion of mimicking natural structures in the synthesis of new structural materials has generated enormous interest but has yielded few practical advances. Natural composites achieve strength and toughness through complex hierarchical designs that are extremely difficult to replicate synthetically. We emulate nature's toughening mechanisms by combining two ordinary compounds, aluminum oxide...