Adding Lifetime to Objects and Membranes in P Systems

Authors

  • Bogdan Aman Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer Science and A.I.Cuza University of Ia¸si, Romania
  • Gabriel Ciobanu Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer Science and A.I.Cuza University of Ia¸si, Romania

Keywords:

P Systems

Abstract

Membrane systems are computing devices inspired from the cell functioning. A feature of membrane systems is the fact that objects and membranes are persistent. In fact, this is not quite true in the real world: cells and intracellular proteins have a well-defined lifetime. Inspired from these biological facts, we define a model of membrane systems in which each membrane and each object has attached a lifetime. Some results show that this model is at least as powerful as the usual one.

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Published

2010-09-01

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