Universal families of reversible p systems

  • Authors:
  • Alberto Leporati;Claudio Zandron;Giancarlo Mauri

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

  • Venue:
  • MCU'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Machines, Computations, and Universality
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Conservative logic is a mathematical model of computation that reflects some properties of microdynamical laws of physics, such as reversibility and the conservation of the internal energy of the physical system used to perform the computations. The model is based upon the Fredkin gate, a reversible and conservative three–input/three–output boolean gate which is functionally complete for boolean logic. Computations are performed by reversible circuits composed by Fredkin gates. In this paper we introduce energy–based P systems as a parallel and distributed model of computation in which the amount of energy manipulated and/or consumed during computations is taken into account. Moreover, we show how energy–based P systems can be used to simulate reversible Fredkin circuits. The simulating systems turn out to be themselves reversible and conservative.