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Susan Stepney.
Visualising the dynamics of Random Boolean Networks: examples of network size, mutation, canalisation .

Technical Report YCS-2010-448, University of York. February 2010.

Introduction:

We propose a simple approach to visualising the time behaviour of Random Boolean Networks (RBNs), and demonstrate the approach in a variety of cases: examining the dynamics as a function of network size for K = 2 connectivity networks, examining the effect of state and structure mutations on K = 2 networks, and examining the effect of canalising functions for K > 2 networks. We provide a Matlab implementation of the visualisation algorithm, and of the various demonstrations.

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@techreport(SS-YCS-448,
  author = "Susan Stepney",
  title = "Visualising the dynamics of Random Boolean Networks:
           examples of network size, mutation, canalisation",
  institution = "Department of Computer Science, University of York",
  number = "YCS-2010-448",
  month = feb,
  year = 2010
)