Real-life Applications with Membrane Computing

This book thoroughly investigates the underlying theoretical basis of membrane computing models, and reveals their latest applications. In addition, to date there have been no illustrative case studies or complex real-life applications that capitalize on the full potential of the sophisticated membrane systems computational apparatus; gaps that this book remedies. By studying various complex applications including engineering optimization, power systems fault diagnosis, mobile robot controller design, and complex biological systems involving data modeling and process interactions the book also extends the capabilities of membrane systems models with features such as formal verication techniques, evolutionary approaches, and fuzzy reasoning methods. As such, the book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date guide for all researchers, PhDs and undergraduate students in the fields of computer science, engineering and the bio-sciences who are interested in the applications of natural computing models.

Presents a novel approach relying on a combination of different membrane system models and evolutionary methods or fuzzy reasoning systems, applied to a wide range of contexts from various engineering areas Includes unprecedented information on a new set of real-life complex and challenging applications modeled and analyzed with the help of membrane computing tools Written by respected researchers in the field, actively involved in designing real applications of membrane computing and building adequate tools Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Gexiang Zhang Professor at School of Control Engineering at Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China. The President of the International Membrane Computing Society (IMCS), IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member. Managing Editor of Journal of Membrane Computing (Springer) and Editorial Board member of International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems. He is the main investigator of 5 scientific research projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China and of more than 20 scientific research projects at the national and provincial levels. He is the winner of the Grigore Moisil Prize of the Romanian Academy in 2019 and was awarded Sichuan Provincial Natural Science Award or Science and Technology Progress Awards in three consecutive years 2017-2019. Research areas include membrane computing, artificial intelligence, robotics, power systems, and their interactions. Author/co-author of more than 200 publications, two monographs, and (lead) guest editor/co-editor of more than 10 volumes/proceedings. He has more than 3800 citations with an H index of 34, according to Google Scholar. Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, since 2009, and currently Emeritus Professor. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Guest Professor of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He is a numerary member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) in the Section of Informatics. His main research interests include theory of computation, computational complexity theory, natural computing (DNA computing and membrane computing), bioinformatics and computational modelling for complex systems. He has published 19 books in computer science and mathematics, and over 300 scientific papers in international journals (collaborating with researchers worldwide) and he is a member of the Editorial Board of six ISI journals. He has been the first scientist awarded with "Important Contributions to Membrane Computing" under the auspices of the European Molecular Computing Consortium, Edinburgh, 2008. In 2014, he received the University of Sevilla's FAMA award for his outstanding research career. He has been the main researcher in various European, Asian, Spanish and Andalusian research grants. From 2003 he is an expert reviewer of the Prospective and Evaluation National Agency of Spain. From May 2006 he is an European Science Foundation peer reviewer, from July 2008 he is an expert reviewer from the Romanian National University Research Council and from October 2015 he is an international expert from the Russian Science Foundation, invited by the Russian International Affairs Council. Agustín Riscos-Nuñez Associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, guarantor researcher at the Smart Computer systems Research and Engineering Lab (SCORE), head of the Research Group on Natural Computing, founding member and Secretary of the Research Institute of Computer Engineering (I3US) at Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. Member of the Steering committee and the Program committee of the "International Conference on Membrane Computing" and the "Asian Conference on Membrane Computing". Founding member of the "International Membrane Computing Society (IMCS)", IEEE Member. His main areas of expertise are bio-inspired computing and artificial intelligence. His research interests mainly focus in computational modelling of complex systems and population dynamics, as well as other practical applications in the fields of bioinformatics, biomedicine, high performance computing and robotics. Co-author of more than 30 papers on relevant international journals and several book chapters, more than 30 contributions to international conferences (several times as in

Inhalt
Membrane Computing - Key Concepts and Denitions.- Fundamentals of Evolutionary Computation.- Membrane Algorithms.- Engineering Optimization with Membrane Algorithms.- Electric Power System Fault Diagnosis with Membrane Systems.- Robot Control with Membrane Systems.- Data Modeling with Membrane Systems: Applications to Real Ecosystems.