Background/Introduction#R##N#The study of the mechanisms that link the global system behavior to the interaction of its parts is an important issue to the field of complex systems. This occurs in many natural systems in biology, ecology and physics. Nature-inspired computation tries to capture and exploit natural solutions in order to solve real problems in many different fields such as telecommunication networks, architecture and urban spaces design, sociology or economy planning. The main purpose of the present research is the creation of a computational path connecting a set of low-level interactions with high-level emerging behaviors. The low-level interactions are modeled by very simple neighbor binary rules. The upper level highlights a regular pattern formation. This framework has been applied to approach the pattern formation in the vertebrate limb development under the scope of the French Flag model.
['María Teresa Signes Pont', 'Higinio Mora Mora', 'Juan Manuel García Chamizo']
A Computational Approach of the French Flag Model to Connect Growth and Specification in Developmental Biology