Paper Info
Title
Simulating a rock-scissors-paper bacterial game with a discrete cellular automaton
Abstract
This paper describes some of the results obtained after the design and implementation of a discrete cellular automata simulating the generation, degradation and diffusion of particles in a two dimensional grid where different colonies of bacteria coexist and interact. This lattice-based simulator use a random walk-based algorithm to diffuse particles in a 2D discrete lattice. As first results, we analyze and show the oscillatory dynamical behavior of 3 colonies of bacteria competing in a non-transitive relationship analogous to a Rock-Scissors-Paper game (Rock bacteria beats Scissors bacteria that beats Paper bacteria; and Paper beats Rock bacteria). The interaction and communication between bacteria is done with the quorum sensing process through the generation and diffusion of three small molecules called autoinducers. These are the first results obtained from the first version of a general simulator able to model some of the complex molecular information processing and rich communication processes in synthetic bacterial ecosystems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-21326-7_39
IWINAC (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
lattice-based simulator,rock-scissors-paper bacterial game,paper bacterium,discrete cellular automaton,rich communication process,bacteria coexist,rock bacterium,discrete lattice,rock-scissors-paper game,scissors bacterium,complex molecular information processing,cellular automaton,cellular automata,random walk,information processing,quorum sensing
Computer vision,Cellular automaton,Autoinducer,Quorum sensing,Biological system,Lattice (order),Simulation,Random walk,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Grid
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6687
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pablo Gómez Esteban1318.81
Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón243551.44