Computing with cells: membrane systems - some complexity issues.

Ibarra, Oscar H. and Paun, Andrei Paul (2008). Computing with cells: membrane systems - some complexity issues.. "International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed Systems", v. 23 (n. 5); pp. 347-365. ISSN 1744-5760. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760701640266.

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Title: Computing with cells: membrane systems - some complexity issues.
Author/s:
  • Ibarra, Oscar H.
  • Paun, Andrei Paul
Item Type: Article
Título de Revista/Publicación: International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed Systems
Date: October 2008
ISSN: 1744-5760
Volume: 23
Subjects:
Freetext Keywords: membrane system; symport/antiport system; catalytic system; contextsensitive language.
Faculty: Facultad de Informática (UPM)
Department: Inteligencia Artificial
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

Membrane computing is a branch of natural computing which abstracts computing models from the structure and the functioning of the living cell. The main ingredients of membrane systems, called P systems, are (i) the membrane structure, which consists of a hierarchical arrangements of membranes which delimit compartments where (ii) multisets of symbols, called objects, evolve according to (iii) sets of rules which are localised and associated with compartments. By using the rules in a nondeterministic/deterministic maximally parallel manner, transitions between the system configurations can be obtained. A sequence of transitions is a computation of how the system is evolving. Various ways of controlling the transfer of objects from one membrane to another and applying the rules, as well as possibilities to dissolve, divide or create membranes have been studied. Membrane systems have a great potential for implementing massively concurrent systems in an efficient way that would allow us to solve currently intractable problems once future biotechnology gives way to a practical bio-realization. In this paper we survey some interesting and fundamental complexity issues such as universality vs. nonuniversality, determinism vs. nondeterminism, membrane and alphabet size hierarchies, characterizations of context-sensitive languages and other language classes and various notions of parallelism.

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Item ID: 2260
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/2260/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:2260
DOI: 10.1080/17445760701640266
Official URL: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?co...
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 12 Feb 2010 12:00
Last Modified: 20 Apr 2016 12:01
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