Using the CBO, a modeler can create a meta-model of a simulation of a biological model and link that meta-model to experiment or simulation results.
"We're very much looking at a biological model of an epidemic," said Esther Dyson, publisher of the technology newsletter Release 1.0.
The key to the next green revolution, Dr. Mundt said, will be abandoning most of the industrial model of agriculture of the 20th century and shifting to a "biological model based on management of ecological processes" like applying fertilizer and water only as needed.
There are ample examples of such innovations: the Shinkansen Bullet Train of the West Japan Railway inspired by the Kingfisher's beak, the Eastgate Building in Zimbabwe taking inspiration from termites' self-cooling mounds, and British Telecom using a biological model based on ant behaviour to overhaul its phone network.
A biological model was analysed in stereotactic implants.
But not everyone is impressed with the idea of a biological model for mental illness.
Albino hairless mouse (AHM) has been used as a biological model in photodermatology.
Another approach to include stochastic perturbations in a biological model was considered by Imhof and Walcher in [23].
Figure 4 shows a biological model of FES-stimulated muscle developed by Doctor Riener which is used in this study [22],[22].
Song et al. [33] exploited a biological model of Physarum to design a novel biology-inspired optimization algorithm for minimal exposure problem (MEP).
As a demonstration of the methods, investigations are made of the role of fluctuations in a biological model for microorganism direction sensing based on concentration gradients.
