P systems with active membranes characterize PSPACE

  • Authors:
  • Petr Sosík;Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón

  • Affiliations:
  • Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – UPM, Madrid, Spain;Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – UPM, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • DNA'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on DNA Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A P system is a natural computing model inspired by information processes in cells and a control role of cellular membranes. We show that uniform families of P systems with active membranes are able to solve, in polynomial time, exactly the class of decisional problems PSPACE. Similar results were achieved also with other models of bio-inspired computers, such as DNA computing. Together they suggest that PSPACE naturally characterizes the computational potential of biological information processing.