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The bristles of the fruit fly, Drosophila, form part of the peripheral nervous system of the animal. The pattern of these bristles in the adult is produced by self-organisation of cell types during embryonic and larval development. The mechanism of bristle differentiation has been the inspiration for the optimisation algorithm presented here. The algorithm is used to produce a dynamic channel plan for a cell phone network. Radio channels are a scarce resource and minimising interference is a significant problem for mobile network operators.
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Tateson, R. (1998). Self-organising pattern formation: Fruit flies and cell phones. In: Eiben, A.E., Bäck, T., Schoenauer, M., Schwefel, HP. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature — PPSN V. PPSN 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1498. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056915
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