ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the use of dynamics of randomly interacting moving agents (DRIMA) to create a model of biological phenomena. It discusses BacDRIMA is a model in the particular biological domain studied, namely, bacterial biofilm formation. The chapter presents the results obtained with BacDRIMA. It also presents the new version of DRIMA, fulfilling the aforementioned necessity, and also discusses BacDRIMA, a bacterial model that was constructed using DRIMA as its core element, expanding on a very early, short presentation in. The chapter shows some simple examples of how the basic DRIMA model behaves in very simple conditions. The BacDRIMA model has also been significantly enhanced, by incorporating several elements such as reproduction and changes in the agents’ metabolic modelling. In BacDRIMA, each agent represents an individual bacterium. Like in real life, each bacterium has to exploit the local environment to get food. Also, the environment has a limited amount of energy sources.
