Editors:
- There is no other book that covers applications of membrane computing
- Given their experience in membrane computing - please see the editor profiles - the editors of this book were unusually well positioned to identify the most interesting application areas and assemble the best team of authors for the contributions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Natural Computing Series (NCS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Membrane Computing
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Bio-applications
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Applications to Linguistics
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Membrane Software
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Back Matter
About this book
Membrane computing is a branch of natural computing which investigates computing models abstracted from the structure and functioning of living cells and from their interactions in tissues or higher-order biological structures. The models considered, called membrane systems (P systems), are parallel, distributed computing models, processing multisets of symbols in cell-like compartmental architectures. In many applications membrane systems have considerable advantages – among these are their inherently discrete nature, parallelism, transparency, scalability and nondeterminism.
In dedicated chapters, leading experts explain most of the applications of membrane computing reported so far, in biology, computer science, computer graphics and linguistics. The book also contains detailed reviews of the software tools used to simulate P systems.
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of Computer Science of the Romanian Academy, Iaşi, Romania
Gabriel Ciobanu
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Research Group on Natural Computing Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
Gheorghe Păun, Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez
About the editors
The first editor, Gabriel Ciobanu, has considerable experience in natural computing and theoretical computer science, and coedited the Natural Computing series book "Modelling in Molecular Biology" (2004). The second editor initiated the field of membrane computing in 1998; authored in 2002 the Natural Computing series book "Membrane Computing -- An Introduction", the only dedicated book on this topic; and has co-organized and co-edited relevant workshops (e.g., the International Workshop on Membrane Computing 2002) and proceedings. The third editor, Mario J. Perez-Jimenez, has considerable experience in the fields of natural computing, molecular computing, DNA computing, unconventional computing, etc., and recently coorganized the Int. Workshop on Membrane Computing 2004.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applications of Membrane Computing
Editors: Gabriel Ciobanu, Gheorghe Păun, Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez
Series Title: Natural Computing Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29937-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-25017-3Published: 05 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06401-2Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-29937-0Published: 06 August 2007
Series ISSN: 1619-7127
Series E-ISSN: 2627-6461
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 441
Topics: Theory of Computation, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Simulation and Modeling, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences, Computer Applications, Cell Biology