Presented at Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference 2024 in Montreal.
Published in associated conference journal: https://iise.confex.com/iise/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/6927
Slime molds (Physarum polycephalum) have a unique ability to optimize paths to food sources. We are running physical tests with slime molds in complex mazes to develop a shortest path algorithm in Python mimicking the behavior of Physarum polycephalum.