%0 Generic %D 2008 %T A uniform family of tissue P systems with cell division solving 3-COL in a linear time %A Daniel Díaz-Pernil %A Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo %A Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez %A Agustín Riscos-Núñez %C Amsterdam (The Netherlands) %I Elsevier %K Membrane computing; Tissue P systems; Cell division; 3-coloring problem %N 1-2 %P 76-87 %R 10.1016/j.tcs.2008.04.005 %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2008.04.005 %V 404 %X Several examples of the efficiency of cell-like P systems regarding the solution of NP-complete problems in polynomial time can be found in the literature(obviously, trading space for time). Recently, different new models of tissue-like P systems have received much 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. %8 09/2008