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Exploring Computation Trees Associated with P Systems

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Membrane Computing (WMC 2004)

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Usually, the evolution of a P system generates a computation tree too large to be efficiently handled with present–day computers; moreover, different branches in this tree may differ significantly from a computational complexity point of view, that is, for the amount of time and storage necessary to reach a result. In this paper we propose a first approach to outline a strategy for selecting a suitable branch, in some sense, of the computation tree associated with a P system. To this end, we introduce the key notion of the dependency graph of a P system.

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  1. Research Group on Natural Computing, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012, Sevilla, Spain

    Andrés Cordón-Franco, Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo, Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez & Agustín Riscos-Núñez

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  1. Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence Research Center, University of Milan–Bicocca, Italy

    Giancarlo Mauri

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

    Gheorghe Păun

  3. Research Group on Natural Computing, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Seville, Avda. Reina Mercedes, 41012, Sevilla, Spain

    Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez

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

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

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

    Arto Salomaa

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Cordón-Franco, A., Gutiérrez-Naranjo, M.A., Pérez-Jiménez, M.J., Riscos-Núñez, A. (2005). Exploring Computation Trees Associated with P Systems. In: Mauri, G., Păun, G., Pérez-Jiménez, M.J., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A. (eds) Membrane Computing. WMC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3365. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31837-8_16

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