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Formal verification of P systems using model checking has attracted a significant amount of research in recent years. However, up to now only P systems with static structure have been considered. This paper makes significant advances in this area by considering P systems with active membranes, in particular P systems with division rules. The paper presents a theoretical framework for addressing this problem and reports on a complex case study involving a well-known NP-complete problem solved using P systems with membrane division rules. This is implemented in Promela and non trivial properties are verified using Spin.
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Ipate, F., Lefticaru, R., Pérez-Hurtado, I., Pérez-Jiménez, M.J., Tudose, C. (2012). Formal Verification of P Systems with Active Membranes through Model Checking. In: Gheorghe, M., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Verlan, S. (eds) Membrane Computing. CMC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28024-5_15
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