ENGLISH

Applications of Membrane Computing

By Gheorghe Păun , Gabriel Ciobanu , Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2006
ISBN
978-3-540-25017-3, 978-3-540-29937-0
DOI
10.1007/3-540-29937-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6505509 bytes)
Series
Natural Computing Series
Pages
447\447
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Theory of Computation; Mathematical Logic and Form

Description

Membrane computing is a branch of natural computing which investigates computing models abstracted from the structure and functioning of living cells and from their interactions in tissues or higher-order biological structures. The models considered, called membrane systems (P systems), are parallel, distributed computing models, processing multisets of symbols in cell-like compartmental architectures. In many applications membrane systems have considerable advantages – among these are their inherently discrete nature, parallelism, transparency, scalability and nondeterminism. In dedicated chapters, leading experts explain most of the applications of membrane computing reported so far, in biology, computer science, computer graphics and linguistics. The book also contains detailed reviews of the software tools used to simulate P systems.

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