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Distributed Information Processing in Biological and Computational Systems.

The article looks at the intersection of computing and biology, focusing on the implications of the presence of distributed algorithms of control and information processing in both computational and biological systems. It notes that researchers in each discipline are making use of models from the ot...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 94 - 103
Main Authors: NAVLAKHA, SAKET, BAR-JOSEPH, ZIV
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jan2015
Subjects:
Computer science research
Biological research
Distributed algorithms
Information processing
Distributed computing
Biological systems
Computer networks
Communication
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article looks at the intersection of computing and biology, focusing on the implications of the presence of distributed algorithms of control and information processing in both computational and biological systems. It notes that researchers in each discipline are making use of models from the other and discusses how the most useful topics of such intersecting studies can be identified. Topics include the network of finite state machines (nFSM)-based communication model, shared memory models, and stochastic decision-making.