Modelling Biological Systems with Competitive Coherence

Figure 1

The principle of Now-Next competition. The elements active at time 𝑡₁ (inside black ellipse) are used to select the elements to be active at time 𝑡₂. This selection uses the Next fields of the elements active at time 𝑡₁ (red arrows). As the new elements are activated at time 𝑡₂ (inside the red dotted circle), the Now fields of these new elements are also used to select and activate more elements (blue arrows) such as the element inside the dotted blue circle. The elements to be activated are selected from a large set of inactive elements by a competition between the Now and Next processes. The inset shows an element which has an address and two fields.