P Systems with Symport/Antiport Rules: The Traces of Objects

TitleP Systems with Symport/Antiport Rules: The Traces of Objects
Publication TypeJournal Papers
Year of Publication2002
AuthorsIonescu, M., Martín-Vide C., & Paun G.
Journal TitleGrammars
Place PublishedDordrecht, Holanda
Volume5
Pages65-79
Abstract

We continue here the study of those P systems where the computation is performed by the communication of objects, that is, systems with symport and antiport rules. Instead of the (number of) objects collected in a specified membrane, as the result of a computation we consider the itineraries of a certain object through membranes, during a halting computation, written as a coding of the string of labels of the visited membranes. The family of languages generated in this way is investigated with respect to its place in the Chomsky hierarchy. When the (symport and antiport) rules are applied in a conditional manner, promoted or inhibited by certain objects which should be present in the membrane where a rule is applied, then a characterization of recursively enumerable languages is obtained; the power of systems with the rules applied freely is only partially described.

Keywordschomsky hierarchy, Membrane computing, P system
URLhttp://www.springerlink.com/index/D0EDD350EQCLB92A.pdf
Issue2
ISSN Number1386-7393
DOI10.1023/A:1016372801811