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Applications of Membrane Computing in Systems and Synthetic Biology

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  • Presents applications of membrane computing in systems and synthetic biology
  • Collects in an organic way, different facets of the membrane computing paradigm
  • Shows the full potential of the membrane computing framework incl. deterministic, non-deterministic and stochastic systems paired with different algorithms and methodologies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation (ECC, volume 7)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

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About this book

Membrane Computing was introduced as a computational paradigm in Natural Computing. The models introduced, called Membrane (or P) Systems, provide a coherent platform to describe and study living cells as computational systems. Membrane Systems have been investigated for their computational aspects and employed to model problems in other fields, like: Computer Science, Linguistics, Biology, Economy, Computer Graphics, Robotics, etc. Their inherent parallelism, heterogeneity and intrinsic versatility allow them to model a broad range of processes and phenomena, being also an efficient means to solve and analyze problems in a novel way.

Membrane Computing has been used to model biological systems, becoming with time a thorough modeling paradigm comparable, in its modeling and predicting capabilities, to more established models in this area. This book is the result of the need to collect, in an organic way, different facets of this paradigm.

The chapters of this book, together with the web pages accompanying them, present different applications of Membrane Systems to Biology. Deterministic, non-deterministic and stochastic systems paired with different algorithms and methodologies show the full potential of this framework.

The book is addressed to researchers interested in applications of discrete biological models and the interplay between Membrane Systems and other approaches to analyze complex systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Eindhoven, United Kingdom

    Pierluigi Frisco

  • The Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Marian Gheorghe

  • Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

    Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Applications of Membrane Computing in Systems and Synthetic Biology

  • Editors: Pierluigi Frisco, Marian Gheorghe, Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez

  • Series Title: Emergence, Complexity and Computation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03191-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03190-3Published: 07 January 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38097-1Published: 03 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03191-0Published: 17 December 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2194-7287

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-7295

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 266

  • Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Complexity

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