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Disordered Systems and Biological Organization - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Disordered Systems and Biological Organization held at Les Houches, February 25 - March 8, 1985 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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Disordered Systems and Biological Organization - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Disordered Systems and Biological Organization held at Les Houches, February 25 - March 8, 1985 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
Series: NATO ASI Subseries F:, 20
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The NATO workshop on Disordered Systems and Biological Organization
was attended, in march 1985, by 65 scientists representing a large
variety of fields: Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and
Biology. It was the purpose of this interdisciplinary workshop to
shed light on the conceptual connections existing between fields of
research apparently as different as: automata theory, combinatorial
optimization, spin glasses and modeling of biological systems, all
of them concerned with the global organization of complex systems,
locally interconnected. Common to many contributions to this volume
is the underlying analogy between biological systems and spin
glasses: they share the same properties of stability and diversity.
This is the case for instance of primary sequences of biopo Iymers
I ike proteins and nucleic acids considered as the result of
mutation-selection processes [P. W. Anderson, 1983] or of evolving
biological species [G. Weisbuch, 1984]. Some of the most striking
aspects of our cognitive apparatus, involved In learning and
recognttlon [J. Hopfield, 19821, can also be described in terms of
stability and diversity in a suitable configuration space. These
interpretations and preoccupations merge with those of theoretical
biologists like S. Kauffman [1969] (genetic networks) and of
mathematicians of automata theory: the dynamics of networks of
automata can be interpreted in terms of organization of a system in
multiple possible attractors. The present introduction outlInes the
relationships between the contributions presented at the workshop
and brIefly discusses each paper in its particular scientific
context.
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