P-systems and X-machines Papers dedicated to Mike Holcombe on the occasion of his 65th birthday
P-systems and X-machines Papers dedicated to Mike Holcombe on the occasion of his 65th birthday
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P 系统和 X 机器 在 Mike Holcombe 65 岁生日之际献给他的论文
DOI:
10.1007/s11047-009-9110-7
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Gheorghe M
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作者:
Gheorghe M
A number of computational paradigms have been inspired by or used for modelling the multifaceted complex phenomena present in biological systems. One of the most recent and successful of these paradigms, called membrane computing or P systems (Paun 2002), is a vigorous research field with a significant impact on a variety of disciplines. Indeed, P systems research is a fast growing field—in 2003 the Thompson Institute for Scientific Information characterised the initial paper as ‘‘fast breaking’’and the domain as ‘‘emergent research front in computer science’’. As the name suggests, a membrane computing system formally captures various mechanisms present in cells, tissues and other more complex organisms. P systems, through complexity and formal language theory constructs, provide a general framework to build up and study nature inspired computational models.In the more basic P system models metabolites, nutrients and other more complex (macro) molecules, which are normally found inside a cell, are encoded as multisets of simple objects or complex strings, respectively. Different chemical interactions, like transcription, translation and various enzymatic and degradation processes are, in turn, represented by rewriting rules that operate on these multisets of objects of different types. Moreover, the device, as it occurs for example in Eukaryotic cells, can be hierarchically organized by means of a well-defined structure of nested compartments. In other cases, the membranes are organised as a network of compartments in a similar fashion to what is found in a variety of biological tissues in which cells are positioned in a well-defined ‘‘matrix’’structure. More complex entities, like bacterium colonies or social insects such as ants, bees, etc., are represented by dynamic structure entities that communicate, move