Handling markov chains with membrane computing

  • Authors:
  • Mónica Cardona;M. Angels Colomer;Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez;Alba Zaragoza

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Lleida, LLeida, Spain;Department of Mathematics, University of Lleida, LLeida, Spain;Research Group on Natural Computing, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain;Department of Mathematics, University of Lleida, LLeida, Spain

  • Venue:
  • UC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Unconventional Computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we approach the problem of computing the n–th power of the transition matrix of an arbitrary Markov chain through membrane computing. The proposed solution is described in a semi–uniform way in the framework of P systems with external output. The amount of resources required in the construction is polynomial in the number of states of the Markov chain and in the power. The time of execution is linear in the power and is independent of the number of states involved in the Markov chain.