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MiS Preprint
16/2002
On selected individual-based approaches to the dynamics in multicellular systems
Dirk Drasdo
Abstract
In recent years a number of different individual-based models for the spatio-temporal dynamics in multicellular organisms or parts of them have been established. Individual based models (here: individuum = cell) become necessary if (i) one is interested in understanding the organization principles in tissues down to length scales of the order of a cell diameter in order to link the microscopic dynamics with a collective phenomenon, (ii) the phenomenon under study includes variations of material or kinetic properties on length scales of the order of the cell diameter. In this article we give a brief overview over a number of individual-based model approaches.