Small universal accepting hybrid networks of evolutionary processors

  • Authors:
  • Remco Loos;Florin Manea;Victor Mitrana

  • Affiliations:
  • EMBL, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, CB10 1SD, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK;University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Academiei 14, 010014, Bucharest, Romania and Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Faculty of Computer Science, PSF 4120, ...;University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Academiei 14, 010014, Bucharest, Romania and Technical University of Valencia, Department of Information Systems and Computati ...

  • Venue:
  • Acta Informatica
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we improve some results regarding the size complexity of accepting hybrid networks of evolutionary processors (AHNEPs). We show that there are universal AHNEPs of size 6, by devising a method for simulating 2-tag systems. This result improves the best upper bound for the size of universal AHNEPs which was 7. We also propose a computationally and descriptionally efficient simulation of nondeterministic Turing machines with AHNEPs. More precisely, we prove that AHNEPs with ten nodes can simulate any nondeterministic Turing machine of time complexity f (n) in time O(f (n)). This result significantly improves the best known upper bound for the number of nodes in a network simulating in linear time an arbitrary Turing machine, namely 24.