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Behavioural Equivalences in Real-Time P Systems

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We present a real-time extension of P systems in which each membrane and each object has a lifetime attached to it, and we use these lifetimes to define and study various behavioural equivalences. We also establish sufficient conditions for guaranteeing progression over time.

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Aman, B., Ciobanu, G. (2014). Behavioural Equivalences in Real-Time P Systems. In: Alhazov, A., Cojocaru, S., Gheorghe, M., Rogozhin, Y., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A. (eds) Membrane Computing. CMC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8340. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54239-8_8

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