Bioinspired Concepts: Unified Theory for Complex Biological and Engineering Systems

Abstract : The overall long-term objective of our research is to develop a theoretical foundation for understanding highly evolved and organized complexity, emphasizing the role of network architecture, with application to bio, eco, tech, and social networks, and with strong connections to real-world data. Network-enabled technology can provide unprecedented levels of performance, efficiency, sustainability, and robustness in all domains of science and engineering, and in many areas has already done so. At its best, engineering, biology, and medicine are being transformed by sophisticated platforms to rapidly design/demo/debug/deploy systems of bewildering complexity that are nevertheless typically robust and functional.