A Linear--time Tissue P System Based Solution for the 3--coloring Problem

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Díaz-Pernil;Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo;Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez;Agustín Riscos-Núòez

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Group on Natural Computing, Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain;Research Group on Natural Computing, Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain;Research Group on Natural Computing, Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain;Research Group on Natural Computing, Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In the literature, several examples of the efficiency of cell-like P systems regarding the solution of NP-complete problems in polynomial time can be found (obviously, trading space for time). Recently, different new models of tissue-like P systems have received important attention from the scientific community. In this paper we present a linear-time solution to an NP-complete problem from graph theory, the 3-coloring problem, and we discuss the suitability of tissue-like P systems as a framework to address the efficient solution to intractable problems.