A membrane computing system mapped on an asynchronous, distributed computational environment

  • Authors:
  • Guido Casiraghi;Claudio Ferretti;Alberto Gallini;Giancarlo Mauri

  • Affiliations:
  • DISCo – Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano–Bicocca, Milano, Italy;DISCo – Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano–Bicocca, Milano, Italy;DISCo – Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano–Bicocca, Milano, Italy;DISCo – Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano–Bicocca, Milano, Italy

  • Venue:
  • WMC'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Membrane Computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We show how to simulate a membrane system on a (simulated) distributed and bio-inspired computational architecture (BME). The advantages of this approach are the ease of representing each membrane with a processing element and the perspective of exploiting the expected nano-technological implementation of such an architecture. By combining these two non-conventional computing architectures, we touch interesting subproblems, such as the trade-off between being synchronous (P systems) and asynchronous (BME), or between structural adjacency and position-independent communications.