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P systems is a new model of computation, inspired by natural processes, that has a distributive nature. By exploring this distributive nature of P systems, we have built a purely distributive simulation of P systems. The simulation, whose implementation is described here, was programmed in the Java programming language and makes heavy use of its Remote Method Invocation protocol. The class of P systems that the simulator can accept is a subset of the NOP2(coo, tar) family of systems, which have the computational power of Turing machines. The paper concludes with some remarks concerning the usefulness of the simulation. In addition, there is a brief discussion of some ideas that can be used in the formulation of a foundation of distributive computing.
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Syropoulos, A., Mamatas, E.G., Allilomes, P.C., Sotiriades, K.T. (2004). A Distributed Simulation of Transition P Systems. In: Martín-Vide, C., Mauri, G., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A. (eds) Membrane Computing. WMC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2933. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24619-0_25
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