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  1. Amoeba-inspired analog electronic computing system integrating resistance crossbar for solving the travelling salesman problem

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  2. Amoeba-inspired combinatorial optimization machines

    Article • Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, May 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  3. Computational Capacity of a Cell Exhibiting Non-random Fluctuation

    Article • Seibutsu Butsuri, January 2020, Biophysical Society of Japan

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  4. FPGA-Based Hardware/Software Co-Design of a Bio-Inspired SAT Solver

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  5. Superconductor Amoeba-Inspired Problem Solvers for Combinatorial Optimization

    Article • Physical Review Applied, April 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  6. FPGA-Based amoeba-inspired SAT solver for cyber-physical systems

    Article • April 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  7. Amoeba-Inspired Stochastic Hardware SAT Solver

    Article • March 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  8. Remarkable problem-solving ability of unicellular amoeboid organism and its mechanism

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, December 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  9. Category Theoretic Analysis of Photon-Based Decision Making

    Article • International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, September 2018, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  10. Prebiotic Geochemical Automata at the Intersection of Radiolytic Chemistry, Physical Complexity, and Systems Biology

    Article • Complexity, June 2018, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  11. Amoeba-Inspired Electronic Solution-Searching System and Its Application to Finding Walking Maneuver of a Multi-legged Robot

    Article • May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  12. Size-Dependent Affinity of Glycine and Its Short Oligomers to Pyrite Surface: A Model for Prebiotic Accumulation of Amino Acid Oligomers on a Mineral Surface

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, January 2018, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  13. Estimating the capacity for production of formamide by radioactive minerals on the prebiotic Earth

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  14. Subsumed complexity: abiogenesis as a by-product of complex energy transduction

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, November 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  15. Flat-band light dynamics in Stub photonic lattices

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2017, Nature

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  16. Common and Potentially Prebiotic Origin for Precursors of Nucleotide Synthesis and Activation

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, June 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  17. Percolation of optical excitation mediated by near-field interactions

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, April 2017, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  18. Amoeba-Inspired Solution-Searching Algorithm and its Nanophotonics Implementation

    Article • The Review of Laser Engineering, January 2017, Laser Society of Japan

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  19. Harnessing the Computational Power of Fluids for Optimization of Collective Decision Making

    Article • Philosophies, December 2016, MDPI AG

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  20. Random walk with chaotically driven bias

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2016, Nature

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  21. The Abiotic Chemistry of Thiolated Acetate Derivatives and the Origin of Life

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2016, Nature

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  22. Decision-making ability ofPhysarum polycephalumenhanced by its coordinated spatiotemporal oscillatory dynamics

    Article • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, April 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  23. Decision maker based on atomic switches

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  24. Physarum-Inspired Electronic and Nanoelectronic Computing Systems

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  25. A Strategy for Origins of Life Research

    Article • Astrobiology, December 2015, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  26. Single-photon decision maker

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2015, Nature

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  27. Efficient decision-making by volume-conserving physical object

    Article • New Journal of Physics, August 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  28. A Principled Approach to the Origin Problem

    Article • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  29. Amoeba-Inspired Heuristic Search Dynamics for Exploring Chemical Reaction Paths

    Article • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  30. Amoeba-inspired nanoarchitectonic computing implemented using electrical Brownian ratchets

    Article • Nanotechnology, May 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  31. Decision making based on optical excitation transfer via near-field interactions between quantum dots

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, October 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  32. Chaotic oscillation and random-number generation based on nanoscale optical-energy transfer

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  33. Amoeba-inspired Tug-of-War algorithms for exploration–exploitation dilemma in extended Bandit Problem

    Article • Biosystems, March 2014, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  34. Nanophotonics for efficient solution searching and decision making

    Article • SPIE Newsroom, January 2014, SPIE

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  35. Amoeba-inspired SAT Solver

    Article • IEICE Proceeding Series, January 2014, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  36. Amoeba-inspired algorithm for cognitive medium access

    Article • Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications IEICE, January 2014, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  37. Tug-of-war Model for Competitive Multi-armed Bandit Problem: Amoeba-inspired Algorithm for Cognitive Medium Access

    Article • IEICE Proceeding Series, January 2014, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  38. Demonstration of Controlling the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Optical Near-Field Excitation Transfer in Y-Junction Structure Consisting of Randomly Distributed Quantum Dots

    Article • Advances in Optical Technologies, January 2014, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  39. Network of Energy Transfer on the Nanoscale and its Application to Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems

    Article • IEICE Proceeding Series, January 2014, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  40. Nanointelligence: Information Physics Fundamentals for Nanophotonics

    Article • December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  41. A Nanophotonic Computing Paradigm: Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Systems Using Spatiotemporal Photoexcitation Transfer Dynamics

    Article • December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  42. Erratum: Decision Maker based on Nanoscale Photo-excitation Transfer

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  43. Amoeba-inspired computing architecture implemented using charge dynamics in parallel capacitance network

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, October 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  44. Decision Maker based on Nanoscale Photo-excitation Transfer

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  45. Information physics fundamentals of nanophotonics

    Article • Reports on Progress in Physics, April 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  46. Amoeba-Inspired Nanoarchitectonic Computing: Solving Intractable Computational Problems Using Nanoscale Photoexcitation Transfer Dynamics

    Article • Langmuir, April 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  47. Amoeba-based computing for traveling salesman problem: Long-term correlations between spatially separated individual cells of Physarum polycephalum

    Article • Biosystems, April 2013, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  48. Nanoscale Photonic Network for Solution Searching and Decision Making Problems

    Article • IEICE Transactions on Communications, January 2013, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  49. Spatiotemporal dynamics in optical energy transfer on the nanoscale and its application to constraint satisfaction problems

    Article • Physical Review B, September 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  50. Greedy versus social: resource-competing oscillator network as a model of amoeba-based neurocomputer

    Article • Natural Computing, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  51. Tug-of-war model for the two-bandit problem: Nonlocally-correlated parallel exploration via resource conservation

    Article • Biosystems, July 2010, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  52. Simulation of neurocomputing based on the photophobic reactions of Euglena with optical feedback stimulation

    Article • Biosystems, May 2010, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  53. Spontaneous mode switching in coupled oscillators competing for constant amounts of resources

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, March 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  54. A Model of Amoeba-Based Neurocomputer

    Article • Journal of Computer Chemistry Japan, January 2010, Society of Computer Chemistry Japan

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  55. Amoeba-Based Knowledge Discovery System

    Article • January 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  56. Tug-of-War Model for Multi-armed Bandit Problem

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  57. Article • Electrochemistry, January 2010, The Electrochemical Society of Japan

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  58. Amoeba-based Chaotic Neurocomputing: Combinatorial Optimization by Coupled Biological Oscillators

    Article • New Generation Computing, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  59. Combinatorial Optimization by Amoeba-Based Neurocomputer with Chaotic Dynamics

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  60. Tug-Of-War Model for Two-Bandit Problem

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  61. Resource-Competing Oscillator Network as a Model of Amoeba-Based Neurocomputer

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  62. Simulation of Neurocomputing Based on Photophobic Reactions of Euglena: Toward Microbe–Based Neural Network Computing

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  63. Spontaneous deadlock breaking on amoeba-based neurocomputer

    Article • Biosystems, January 2008, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  64. Return map structure and entrainment in a time-state-scale re-entrant system

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, October 2007, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  65. Amoeba-based neurocomputing with chaotic dynamics

    Article • Communications of the ACM, September 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  66. Dynamical infomorphism: form of endo-perspective

    Article • Chaos Solitons & Fractals, December 2004, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  67. Robust and emergent Physarum logical-computing

    Article • Biosystems, January 2004, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  68. Material Implementation of Hyperincursive Field on Slime Mold Computer

    Article • January 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  69. Resolution of Infinite-Loop in Hyperincursive and Nonlocal Cellular Automata: Introduction to Slime Mold Computing

    Article • January 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  70. Beyond input-output computings: error-driven emergence with parallel non-distributed slime mold computer

    Article • Biosystems, October 2003, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  71. Interface of global and local semantics in a self-navigating system based on the concept lattice☆

    Article • Chaos Solitons & Fractals, February 2002, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  72. Local Semantics for the Part-whole Problem: An Alternative CA Model Based on Unserializable Parallel Processing

    Article • January 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  73. Autonomous selection and indefinite goals: A system using Bezier curves as dynamically re-defined transition rules

    Article • January 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono

  74. Amoeba-Based Nonequilibrium Neurocomputer Utilizing Fluctuations and Instability

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Masashi Aono