Description and composition of bio-inspired design patterns: a complete overview

  • Authors:
  • Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez;Giovanna Marzo Serugendo;Sara Montagna;Mirko Viroli;Josep Lluis Arcos

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Geneva, Carouge, Switzerland 1227;University of Geneva, Carouge, Switzerland 1227;Alma Mater Studiorum---Università di Bologna, Cesena, Italy 47521;Alma Mater Studiorum---Università di Bologna, Cesena, Italy 47521;IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain 08193

  • Venue:
  • Natural Computing: an international journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In the last decade, bio-inspired self-organising mechanisms have been applied to different domains, achieving results beyond traditional approaches. However, researchers usually use these mechanisms in an ad-hoc manner. In this way, their interpretation, definition, boundary (i.e. when one mechanism stops, and when another starts), and implementation typically vary in the existing literature, thus preventing these mechanisms from being applied clearly and systematically to solve recurrent problems. To ease engineering of artificial bio-inspired systems, this paper describes a catalogue of bio-inspired mechanisms in terms of modular and reusable design patterns organised into different layers. This catalogue uniformly frames and classifies a variety of different patterns. Additionally, this paper places the design patterns inside existing self-organising methodologies and hints for selecting and using a design pattern.