Efficient solutions to hard computational problems by P systems with symport/antiport rules and membrane division

P systems are computing models inspired by some basic features of biological membranes. In this work, membrane division, which provides a way to obtain an exponential workspace in linear time, is introduced into (cell-like) P systems with communication (symport/antiport) rules, where objects are nev...

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Autores: Song, Bosheng, Pérez Jiménez, Mario de Jesús, Pan, Linqiang
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/109102
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/109102
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.03.002
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cell-like P system
Symport/antiport rules
Membrane division
Subset Sum problem
QSAT problem
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Sumario:P systems are computing models inspired by some basic features of biological membranes. In this work, membrane division, which provides a way to obtain an exponential workspace in linear time, is introduced into (cell-like) P systems with communication (symport/antiport) rules, where objects are never modified but they just change their places. The computational efficiency of this kind of P systems is studied. Specifically, we present a (uniform) linear time solution to the NP-complete problem, Subset Sum by using division rules for elementary membranes and communication rules of length at most 3. We further prove that such P system allowing division rules for non-elementary membranes can efficiently solve the PSPACE-complete problem, QSAT in a uniform way.