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P Systems with Active Membranes Operating under Minimal Parallelism

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Membrane Computing (CMC 2011)

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We prove that P systems with active membranes operating under minimal parallelism are able to solve NP-complete and PP-complete problems in linear time and exponential space when using different types of rules. We also prove that these systems can simulate register machines.

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  1. School of Math. and Comp. Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Pierluigi Frisco & Gordon Govan

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, Portobello Street, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK

    Marian Gheorghe

  2. Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, P.O. Box 1-764, 014700, Bucharest, Romania

    Gheorghe Păun

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

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

  4. Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Leminkaisenkatu 14, 20520, Turku, Finland

    Arto Salomaa

  5. Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, Laboratoire d’Algorithmique, Complexité et Logique (LACL), Université Paris Est – Créteil Val de Marne, 61, av. Général de Gaulle, 94010, Créteil, France

    Sergey Verlan

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Frisco, P., Govan, G. (2012). P Systems with Active Membranes Operating under Minimal Parallelism. 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_12

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