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Solving the N-Queens Puzzle by Using Few Membranes

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The N-queens puzzle is a topic of several articles written by Mario Pérez-Jiménez and his collaborators. In this paper we present a family of polarizationless P systems with active membranes and 2-cooperation that provides all the possible solutions for this puzzle. The novelty consists in the method allowing a rather important reduction on the number of required membranes and computational steps for obtaining all the solutions of the N-queens problem.

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  1. Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer Science, Iaşi, Romania

    Bogdan Aman & Gabriel Ciobanu

  2. “A.I. Cuza” University of Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania

    Bogdan Aman & Gabriel Ciobanu

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  2. University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain

    Agustín Riscos-Núñez

  3. Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

    Gheorghe Păun

  4. Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Aman, B., Ciobanu, G. (2018). Solving the N-Queens Puzzle by Using Few Membranes. In: Graciani, C., Riscos-Núñez, A., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A. (eds) Enjoying Natural Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11270. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00265-7_2

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