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P Colonies with a Bounded Number of Cells and Programs

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Membrane Computing (WMC 2006)

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We continue the investigation of P colonies, a class of abstract computing devices composed of very simple agents (computational tools), acting and evolving in a shared environment. We show that if P colonies are initialized by placing a number of copies of a certain object in the environment, then they can generate any recursively enumerable set of numbers with a bounded number of cells, each cell containing a bounded number of programs (of bounded length), for constant bounds.

This publication was supported by the Hungarian Foundation for Research and Technological Innovation (project no. TéT F-19/04) and the EGIDE in France (project no. Balaton 09000TC, year 2005) in the frame of the Hungarian-French Intergovernmental Scientific and Technological Cooperation. The work of Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and György Vaszil was also supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund “OTKA” grant no. T 042529.

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  1. Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kende utca 13–17, H-1111, Budapest, Hungary

    Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú & György Vaszil

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

    Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú

  3. LITA, Université Paul Verlaine – Metz, EA 3097, Île du Saulcy, 57045, Metz Cedex 1, France

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  1. Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Universiteit Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, Leiden, CA, The Netherlands

    Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom

  2. Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, PO Box 1-764, 014700, Bucureşti, Romania

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  3. Leiden Center of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, Leiden, CA, The Netherlands

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  4. Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Leminkäisenkatu 14, 20520, Turku, Finland

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Csuhaj-Varjú, E., Margenstern, M., Vaszil, G. (2006). P Colonies with a Bounded Number of Cells and Programs. In: Hoogeboom, H.J., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A. (eds) Membrane Computing. WMC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4361. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11963516_22

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