Archetypal Analysis of 2D Patterns in Emergent Distributed Computation

树叶算不算？也就是说，他们如何解决在优化二氧化碳吸收的同时将呼吸过程中的水分损失降至最低的问题？呼吸装置，也就是叶片气孔，也是系统中的信息处理单元，它们自组织起来，在给定的环境条件下找到最佳解决方案。本项目将通过动态模式分析和计算力学思想的使用来探索叶片气孔在呼吸过程中发生行为的证据。它是跨学科的，涉及数学家、物理学家和生物学家，并将合并来自生物学实验的数据和分布式计算系统的信息处理理论。

Do leaves compute? That is, how do they solve the problem of optimizing CO2 uptake while minimizing water loss during respiration? The devices of respiration, the leaf stomata, are also the information processing units in the system, and they self-organize to locate an optimal solution given the environmental conditions. This project will explore the evidence of emergent behavior in leaf stomata during respiration through dynamic pattern analysis and the use of computational mechanics ideas. It is interdisciplinary, involving mathematicians, physicists, and biologists, and will merge data from biological experiments and the information processing theory of distributed computational systems.