Membrane Computing

For anyone needing to keep up to date with all the latest research in the field of membrane computing, this book will come as a breath of fresh air. It is the extended post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Membrane Computing, held in June 2007. A total of 27 revised papers are presented. All of them have been through two rounds of reviewing. Special attention has been paid to the interaction of membrane computing with biology and computer science.

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Invited Lectures.- Psim: A Computational Platform for Metabolic P Systems.- Modeling the Dynamics of HIV Infection with Conformon-P Systems and Cellular Automata.- (UREM) P Systems with a Quantum-Like Behavior: Background, Definition, and Computational Power.- The Calculus of Looping Sequences for Modeling Biological Membranes.- Membrane Computing in Connex Environment.- Regular Papers.- Skin Output in P Systems with Minimal Symport/Antiport and Two Membranes.- On the Reachability Problem in P Systems with Mobile Membranes.- Modeling Symport/Antiport P Systems with a Class of Hierarchical Petri Nets.- A Hybrid Approach to Modeling Biological Systems.- Causality in Membrane Systems.- Simulating the Bitonic Sort Using P Systems.- On the Number of Agents in P Colonies.- Events, Causality, and Concurrency in Membrane Systems.- P Systems with String Objects and with Communication by Request.- On the Dynamics of PB Systems with Volatile Membranes.- A Logarithmic Bound for Solving Subset Sum with P Systems.- A Formal Framework for Static (Tissue) P Systems.- Conformon-P Systems with Negative Values.- Optimizing Evolution Rules Application and Communication Times in Membrane Systems Implementation.- Hill Kinetics Meets P Systems: A Case Study on Gene Regulatory Networks as Computing Agents in silico and in vivo.- Solving Numerical NP-Complete Problems with Spiking Neural P Systems.- Towards a Complete Covering of SBML Functionalities.- Active Membrane Systems Without Charges and Using Only Symmetric Elementary Division Characterise P.- Balancing Performance, Flexibility, and Scalability in a Parallel Computing Platform for Membrane Computing Applications.- On Flip-Flop Membrane Systems with Proteins.- Characterizing Membrane Structures Through Multiset Tree Automata.- OPERAS CC : An Instance of a Formal Framework for MAS Modeling Based on Population P Systems.