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Asymmetric Phenomena of Segregation and Integration in Biological Systems: A Matching Automaton

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2009)

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Seemingly conflicting phenomena of segregation and integration have been observed both in the immune system and the neural system, and possible mechanisms have been studied relating to learning and adaptation. Inspired by the Stable Marriage Problem whose solutions may exhibit both segregation and integration among agents, we propose a working model of matching automata which take order of preference as inputs and the resultant matching among agents as outputs. In this tentative model, we try to simulate the integration taking the switching experienced in the Necker Cube as an example, while the segregation is built into the restrictions of the model.

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  1. Department of Knowledge-Based Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Tempaku, Toyohashi, 441-8580, Japan

    Yoshiteru Ishida & Tatsuya Hayashi

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  1. Yoshiteru Ishida
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  1. University of Chile, Republica 701, 8370439, Santiago, Chile

    Juan D. Velásquez  & Sebastián A. Ríos  & 

  2. University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Ishida, Y., Hayashi, T. (2009). Asymmetric Phenomena of Segregation and Integration in Biological Systems: A Matching Automaton. In: Velásquez, J.D., Ríos, S.A., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5712. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04592-9_98

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