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Interaction-based programming: A review of MGS

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

The modeling and simulation of morphogenetic phenomena require to take into account the coupling between the processes that take place in a space and the modification of that space due to those processes, leading to a chicken-and-egg problem. To address this issue, we proposed to consider a growing structure as the byproduct of a multitude of interactions between its constitutive elements. An interaction-based model of computation relying on spatial relationships has then been developed leading to an original style of programming implemented in the MGS programming language. Contributions of MGS include a generic programming mechanism that captures most of the unconventional computing models by simply varying the underlying structure of interactions. I will introduce the interaction-based way of programming and review some current works taking roots in the fertile ground of MGS.

Mathematics; Biology and other natural sciences; Mathematical biology

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Author affiliation: University of Paris-Est Creteil

2018-07-05

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/66420

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/