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In this paper we address the problem of describing the complexity of the evolution of a tissue-like P system with cell division. In the computations of such systems the number of (parallel) steps is not sufficient to evaluate the complexity. Following this consideration, Sevilla Carpets were introduced as a tool to describe the space-time complexity of P systems.
Sevilla Carpets have already been used to compare two different solutions of the Subset Sum problem (both designed in the framework of P systems with active membranes) running on the same instance. In this paper we extend the comparison to the framework of tissue-like P systems with cell division.
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Díaz-Pernil, D., Gallego-Ortiz, P., Gutiérrez-Naranjo, M.A., Pérez-Jiménez, M.J., Riscos-Núñez, A. (2009). Descriptional Complexity of Tissue-Like P Systems with Cell Division. In: Calude, C.S., Costa, J.F., Dershowitz, N., Freire, E., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Unconventional Computation. UC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5715. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03745-0_21
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