<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gabriel Ciobanu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gheorghe Paun</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Applications of Membrane Computing</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Natural Computing Series </style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Biocomputing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bioinspired computing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Biologically inspired computing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Biologically motivated computing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cell biology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DNA computing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Membrane computing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Natural computing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New computing paradigms</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">P systems</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/foundations?SGWID=5-156-22-60398121-0</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer-Verlag</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Berlín</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">X+ 441p</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">978-3-540-25017-3</style></isbn><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">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.

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