Fast Synchronization in P Systems

  • Authors:
  • Artiom Alhazov;Maurice Margenstern;Sergey Verlan

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chişinău, Moldova MD-2028;Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, LITA, EA 3097, IUT de Metz, Metz Cédex, France 57045;Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chişinău, Moldova MD-2028 and LACL, Département Informatique, Université Paris Est, Créteil, ...

  • Venue:
  • Membrane Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We consider the problem of synchronizing the activity of all membranes of a P system. After pointing the connection with a similar problem dealt with in the field of cellular automata, where the problem is called the firing squad synchronization problem , FSSP for short, we provide two algorithms to solve this problem for P systems. One algorithm is non-deterministic and works in 2h + 3 steps, the other is deterministic and works in 3h + 3 steps, where h is the height of the tree describing the membrane structure.