Title : 
A self-organizing system with cell-specialization
         
        
            Author : 
Nakano, Kaoru ; Konishi, Katsumi ; Ishiyama, Rui ; Ikeda, Shiro
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Biol. Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
For the study of evolutionary systems, we have already proposed several models. In this paper, we are concerned with a different type of evolutionary system, the cell-specialization. As seen in hydras, cell-specialization is one of the very important types of self-organization. In the process of cell-specialization, each cell which has the same DNA is specialized. The whole system which consists of these cells has a highly advanced function. We propose a kind of coding (something like DNA), “a system description” which makes this possible. Using the system description, we built a hardware model which shows the validity for self-organization, and also did some computer simulations which shows this can be used for evolutionary systems
         
        
            Keywords : 
DNA; genetic algorithms; genetics; self-adjusting systems; DNA; cell-specialization; coding; computer simulations; evolutionary systems; hardware model; hydras; self-organizing system; system description; Biological system modeling; Biology; DNA; Electronic mail; Genetic mutations; Hardware; Information representation; Machine learning; Physics; Robotics and automation;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Evolutionary Computation, 1997., IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Indianapolis, IN
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-3949-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICEC.1997.592315