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Continuation Passing Semantics for Membrane Systems

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Membrane systems are described by a language in which multisets of objects are encapsulated in hierarchical structures of compartments. The language provides primitives for parallel communication of objects across membranes and a primitive for membrane creation. The behaviour of each membrane is specified by means of multiset rewriting rules. We provide a compositional semantics for membrane systems by using the continuation passing style and metric spaces.

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  1. Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer Science, Iaşi, Romania

    Gabriel Ciobanu

  2. Department of Computer Science, Technical University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Eneia Nicolae Todoran

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  1. University of Milano-Bicocca , Milan, Italy

    Alberto Leporati

  2. Leiden University , Leiden, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

  3. Turku Center for Computer Science , Turku, Finland

    Arto Salomaa

  4. University of Milan-Bicocca , Milan, Italy

    Claudio Zandron

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Ciobanu, G., Todoran, E.N. (2017). Continuation Passing Semantics for Membrane Systems. In: Leporati, A., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Zandron, C. (eds) Membrane Computing. CMC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10105. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54072-6_11

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