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Enumerating Membrane Structures

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Membrane Computing (WMC 2008)

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A recurrent formula for enumerating membrane structures is given. It is deduced by elementary combinatorial methods, by providing a simplification with respect to a classical formula for the enumeration of trees, which is based on the analytical method of generating functions.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Verona University, Strada LeGrazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy

    Vincenzo Manca

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  1. School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 8AS, Edinburgh, UK

    David Wolfe Corne

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Pierluigi Frisco

  3. Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, PO Box 1-764, 014700, Bucharest, Romania

    Gheorghe Păun

  4. Leiden Center of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

  5. Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Leminkäisenkatu 14, 20520, Turku, Finland

    Arto Salomaa

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Manca, V. (2009). Enumerating Membrane Structures. In: Corne, D.W., Frisco, P., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A. (eds) Membrane Computing. WMC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5391. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95885-7_21

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