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APCol Systems with Teams

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Membrane Computing (CMC 2017)

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We investigate the possibility of “going beyond” Turing in the terms of Automaton-like P Colonies (APCol systems, for short), variants of P colonies processing strings as their environments. We use the notion of teams of agents as a restriction for the maximal parallelism of the computation. In addition, we assign a colour to each team. In the course of the computation, the colour is changing according to the team that is currently active. We show that we can simulate red-green counter machines with APCol systems with two-coloured teams of minimal size. Red-green counter machines are computing devices with infinite run on finite input that exceed the power of Turing machines.

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This work was supported by The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports from the National Programme of Sustainability (NPU II) project IT4Innovations excellence in science - LQ1602, by SGS/13/2016 and by the National Research, Development, and Innovation Office - NKFIH, Hungary, Grant No. K 120558.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Research Institute of the IT4Innovations Centre of Excellence, Silesian University in Opava, Opava, Czech Republic

    Lucie Ciencialová & Luděk Cienciala

  2. Department of Algorithms and Their Applications, Faculty of Informatics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, Budapest, 1117, Hungary

    Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú

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  1. University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom

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  2. Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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  3. Turku Centre for Computer Science, Turku, Finland

    Arto Salomaa

  4. University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

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Ciencialová, L., Cienciala, L., Csuhaj-Varjú, E. (2018). APCol Systems with Teams. In: Gheorghe, M., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Zandron, C. (eds) Membrane Computing. CMC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10725. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73359-3_6

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