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Polarizationless P Systems with Active Membranes Working in the Minimally Parallel Mode

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Unconventional Computation (UC 2007)

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We investigate the computing power and the efficiency of P systems with active membranes without polarizations, working in the minimally parallel mode. Such systems are shown to be computationally complete even when using only rules handling single objects in the membranes and avoiding the division of non-elementary membranes. Moreover, we elaborate an algorithm for solving NP-complete problems, yet in this case we need evolution rules generating at least two objects as well as rules for non-elementary membrane division.

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  1. Institute of Computer Languages, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 9, Wien, Austria

    Rudolf Freund

  2. Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, PO Box 1-764, 014700 Bucureşti, Romania, and, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla, Spain

    Gheorghe Păun

  3. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla, Spain

    Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez

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Selim G. Akl Cristian S. Calude Michael J. Dinneen Grzegorz Rozenberg H. Todd Wareham

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Freund, R., Păun, G., Pérez-Jiménez, M.J. (2007). Polarizationless P Systems with Active Membranes Working in the Minimally Parallel Mode. In: Akl, S.G., Calude, C.S., Dinneen, M.J., Rozenberg, G., Wareham, H.T. (eds) Unconventional Computation. UC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73554-0_8

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