Abstract
P-systems, or membrane systems [1], were introduced by George Păun as a class of unconventional computing devices of distributed, parallel and nondeterministic type, inspired by the compartmental structure and the functioning of living cells. The basic model consists of a membrane structure, described by a finite string of well matching parentheses, and graphically represented as regions on the plane, hierarchically embedded within an external region. Each membrane contains a multiset of objects (representing chemical substances) that evolve according to given evolution rules (representing reactions).
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Mauri, G. (2007). Membrane Systems and Their Application to Systems Biology. In: Cooper, S.B., Löwe, B., Sorbi, A. (eds) Computation and Logic in the Real World. CiE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73001-9_57
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