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Membrane Computing

8th International Workshop, WMC 2007 Thessaloniki, Greece, June 25-28, 2007 Revised Selected and Invited Papers

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4860)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

Conference series link(s): WMC: International Workshop on Membrane Computing

Conference proceedings info: WMC 2007.

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Invited Lectures

    1. Psim: A Computational Platform for Metabolic P Systems

      • Luca Bianco, Alberto Castellini
      Pages 1-20
    2. The Calculus of Looping Sequences for Modeling Biological Membranes

      • Roberto Barbuti, Andrea Maggiolo–Schettini, Paolo Milazzo, Angelo Troina
      Pages 54-76
    3. Membrane Computing in Connex Environment

      • Mihaela Maliţa, Gheorghe Ştefan
      Pages 77-96
  3. Regular Papers

    1. On the Reachability Problem in P Systems with Mobile Membranes

      • Bogdan Aman, Gabriel Ciobanu
      Pages 113-123
    2. Modeling Symport/Antiport P Systems with a Class of Hierarchical Petri Nets

      • Luca Bernardinello, Nicola Bonzanni, Marco Mascheroni, Lucia Pomello
      Pages 124-137
    3. A Hybrid Approach to Modeling Biological Systems

      • Francesco Bernardini, Marian Gheorghe, Francisco José Romero-Campero, Neil Walkinshaw
      Pages 138-159
    4. Causality in Membrane Systems

      • Nadia Busi
      Pages 160-171
    5. Simulating the Bitonic Sort Using P Systems

      • Rodica Ceterchi, Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, Alexandru Ioan Tomescu
      Pages 172-192
    6. On the Number of Agents in P Colonies

      • Luděk Cienciala, Lucie Ciencialová, Alica Kelemenová
      Pages 193-208
    7. Events, Causality, and Concurrency in Membrane Systems

      • Gabriel Ciobanu, Dorel Lucanu
      Pages 209-227
    8. P Systems with String Objects and with Communication by Request

      • Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú, György Vaszil
      Pages 228-239
    9. On the Dynamics of PB Systems with Volatile Membranes

      • Giorgio Delzanno, Laurent Van Begin
      Pages 240-256
    10. A Logarithmic Bound for Solving Subset Sum with P Systems

      • Daniel Díaz-Pernil, Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo, Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, Agustín Riscos-Núñez
      Pages 257-270
    11. A Formal Framework for Static (Tissue) P Systems

      • Rudolf Freund, Sergey Verlan
      Pages 271-284
    12. Conformon-P Systems with Negative Values

      • Pierluigi Frisco
      Pages 285-297
    13. Optimizing Evolution Rules Application and Communication Times in Membrane Systems Implementation

      • Jorge A. Tejedor, Abraham Gutiérrez, Luis Fernández, Fernando Arroyo, Ginés Bravo, Sandra Gómez
      Pages 298-319

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About this book

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Eighth Workshop on Membrane Computing, WMC8, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, during June 25–28, 2008. The ?rst three workshops on membrane computing were organized in Curtea de Arge¸ s, Romania – they took place in August 2000 (with the proceedings published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science,volume 2235), in August 2001 (with a selection of papers published as a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae, volume 49, numbers 1–3, 2002), and in August 2002 (with the proceedings published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2597). The next four workshops were organized in Tarragona, Spain, in July 2003, in Milan, Italy, in June 2004, in Vienna, Austria, in July 2005, and in Leiden, The Netherlands, in July 2006, with the proceedings published as volumes 2933, 3365, 3850, and 4361, respectively, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The 2007 edition of WMC was organized by the South-East European - search Centre in Thessaloniki, under the auspices of the European Molecular Computing Consortium (EMCC). Special attention was paid to the interaction of membrane computing with biology and computer science, focusing on the - ological roots of membrane computing, on applications of membrane computing in biology and medicine, and on possible electronically based implementations. The pre-proceedings of WMC8 were published by the South-East European Research Centre, Thessaloniki, and they were available during the workshop. Each paper was refereed by two members of the Program Committee.

Keywords

  • Computer
  • In silico
  • automata
  • bioinformatics
  • biological membrane systems
  • biologically inspired computing
  • biology
  • brane calculi
  • cellular automata
  • complexity theory
  • computational power
  • computer science
  • formal languages
  • modeling
  • petri net

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