Lectures presented at the EU Advanced Workshop on Dynamical Modeling in Biotechnology DGXII European Commission BIOTECH (1994-1998) Programme : Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy, 27 May-9 June 1996 (World Scientific, 2001)
"The workshop has been funded by the European Commission DGXII under the program BIOTECH (1994-1998) and hosted by the Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI)"--Foreword
Paralleltitel: Dynamical modeling in biotechnology
Includes bibliographical references
Machine generated contents note: Cellular Automata -- Franco Bagnoli -- Barolo: Biological Ageing Research on Long-Lived Organisms -- Dietrich Stauffer -- Bacterial Translation Modeling and Statistical Mechanics -- Giovanna Guasti -- Automata Network Models in Ecology and Epidemiology -- Nino Boccara -- Formal Neural Networks: An Introduction to Supervised Learning -- and a Selected Bibliography -- Jean-Pierre Nadal -- Dynamical Systems, Qualitative Theory, and Simulation -- Arkady Pikovski -- Nonlinear Excitations and Energy Localization. Applications to -- Molecular Biology -- Michel Peyrard -- The Immune System, and Why Modeling It Makes Sense -- Franco Celada -- Immune System Modelling -- Michele Bezzi -- Discrete Models for Simulating Biological Systems -- Philip E. Seiden -- Modeling TH1-TH2 Regulation, Allergy, and Hyposensitization -- Ulrich Behn, Holger Dambeck and Gerhard Metzner -- Articles -- Phase Transitions in a Probabilistic Cellular Automaton with Two -- Absorbing States -- Franco Bagnoli, Nino Boccara and Paolo Palmerini -- ix -- High Cooperativity as Origin of Pattern Complexity -- Robin Engelhardt -- Structured Mathematical Models for Dynamics of Microbial Growth: -- First Order and Discrete Time Delays -- Peter Gdtz -- Stability of Microbial Mixed Culture Bioprocesses -- Markus Rarbach and Peter Gotz -- Simulating the Immune Response on a Distributed Parallel Computer -- Franco Castiglione, Marcello Bernaschi and Sauro Succi -- List of Participants