Universal P Systems: One Catalyst Can Be Suficient

Whether P systems with only one catalyst can already be universal, is still an open problem. Here we establish universality (computational completeness) by using speci c variants of additional control mechanisms. At each step using only multiset rules from one set of a nite number of sets of rules allows for obtaining computational completeness with one catalyst and only one membrane. If the targets are used for choosing the multiset of rules to be applied, for getting computational completeness with only one catalyst more than one membrane is needed. If the available sets of rules change periodically with time, computational completeness can be obtained with one catalyst in one membrane. Moreover, we also improve existing computational completeness results for P systems with mobile catalysts and for P systems with membrane creation.Junta de Andalucía P08 – TIC 0420

Computational Completeness of P Systems Using Maximal Variants of the Set Derivation Mode

We consider P systems only allowing rules to be used in at most one copy in each derivation step, especially the variant of the maximally parallel derivation mode where each rule may only be used at most once. Moreover, we also consider the derivation mode where from those sets of rules only those are taken which have the maximal number of rules. We check the computational completeness proofs of several variants of P systems and show that some of them even literally still hold true for the for these two new set derivation modes. Moreover, we establish two new results for P systems using target selection for the rules to be chosen together with these two new set derivation modes

Proceedings of the Workshop on Membrane Computing, WMC 2016.

yesThis Workshop on Membrane Computing, at the Conference of Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC), 12th July 2016, Manchester, UK, is the second event of this type after the Workshop at UCNC 2015 in Auckland, New Zealand*. Following the tradition of the 2015 Workshop the Proceedings are published as technical report. The Workshop consisted of one invited talk and six contributed presentations (three full papers and three extended abstracts) covering a broad spectrum of topics in Membrane Computing, from computational and complexity theory to formal verification, simulation and applications in robotics. All these papers – see below, but the last extended abstract, are included in this volume. The invited talk given by Rudolf Freund, “P SystemsWorking in Set Modes”, presented a general overview on basic topics in the theory of Membrane Computing as well as new developments and future research directions in this area. Radu Nicolescu in “Distributed and Parallel Dynamic Programming Algorithms Modelled on cP Systems” presented an interesting dynamic programming algorithm in a distributed and parallel setting based on P systems enriched with adequate data structure and programming concepts representation. Omar Belingheri, Antonio E. Porreca and Claudio Zandron showed in “P Systems with Hybrid Sets” that P systems with negative multiplicities of objects are less powerful than Turing machines. Artiom Alhazov, Rudolf Freund and Sergiu Ivanov presented in “Extended Spiking Neural P Systems with States” new results regading the newly introduced topic of spiking neural P systems where states are considered. “Selection Criteria for Statistical Model Checker”, by Mehmet E. Bakir and Mike Stannett, presented some early experiments in selecting adequate statistical model checkers for biological systems modelled with P systems. In “Towards Agent-Based Simulation of Kernel P Systems using FLAME and FLAME GPU”, Raluca Lefticaru, Luis F. Macías-Ramos, Ionuţ M. Niculescu, Laurenţiu Mierlă presented some of the advatages of implementing kernel P systems simulations in FLAME. Andrei G. Florea and Cătălin Buiu, in “An Efficient Implementation and Integration of a P Colony Simulator for Swarm Robotics Applications" presented an interesting and efficient implementation based on P colonies for swarms of Kilobot robots. *http://ucnc15.wordpress.fos.auckland.ac.nz/workshop-on-membrane-computingwmc- at-the-conference-on-unconventional-computation-natural-computation

Multi-Objective Binary PSO with Kernel P System on GPU

Computational cost is a big challenge for almost all intelligent algorithms which are run on CPU. In this regard, our proposed kernel P system multi-objective binary particle swarm optimization feature selection and classification method should perform with an efficient time that we aimed to settle via using potentials of membrane computing in parallel processing and nondeterminism. Moreover, GPUs perform better with latency-tolerant, highly parallel and independent tasks. In this study, to meet all the potentials of a membrane-inspired model particularly parallelism and to improve the time cost, feature selection method implemented on GPU. The time cost of the proposed method on CPU, GPU and Multicore indicates a significant improvement via implementing method on GPU

Sequential P Systems with Regular Control

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Sequential P Systems with Regular Control

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