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Tissue P systems with cell separation: attacking the partition problem

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Tissue P systems are distributed parallel and non-deterministic computing models in the framework of membrane computing, which are inspired by intercellular communication and cooperation between neurons. Recently, cell separation is introduced into tissue P systems, which enables systems to generate an exponential workspace in a polynomial time. In this work, the computational power of tissue P systems with cell separation is investigated. Specifically, a uniform family of tissue P systems with cell separation is constructed for efficiently solving a well-known NP-complete problem, the partition problem.

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  1. Key Lab of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230039, China

    XingYi Zhang

  2. Image Processing and Intelligent Control Key Laboratory of Education Ministry of China, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Shuo Wang, YunYun Niu & LinQiang Pan

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Zhang, X., Wang, S., Niu, Y. et al. Tissue P systems with cell separation: attacking the partition problem. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 54, 293–304 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-010-4162-y

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