8th Workshop on Membrane
Computing
(WMC8-Thessaloniki, Greece, June 25 - June 28,
2007)
under the auspices of
The European Molecular Computing Consortium - EMCC
PROCEEDINGS (Paper Index)
Editors: George Eleftherakis, Petros
Kefalas, Gheorghe Paun
Invited Presentations
Luca Bianco: Psim: A computational platform for metabolic P systems
Pierluigi Frisco: Advances in modeling the dynamics of HIV infection with conformon-P systems
Alberto Leporati: Quantum UREM P systems: Background, definition and computational power
Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini: The calculus of looping sequences for modelling biological membranes
Gheorghe Stefan: Membrane computing in Connex environment
Regular Presentations
A. Alhazov,Y.Rogozhin: Skin
output in P systems with minimal symport/antiport and two membranes
B. Aman,G.Ciobanu: On
the reachability problem in P systems with mobile membranes
L.
Bernardinello,N.Bonzanni,M.Mascheroni,L.Pomello: Modeling
symport/antiport P systems with a class of hierarchical Petri nets
F.
Bernardini,M.Gheorghe,F.J.Romero-Campero,N.Walkinshaw: A
hybrid approach to modelling biological systems
B. Bonchis,C.Izbasa,G.Ciobanu: Information
theory over multisets
N. Busi: Causality
in membrane systems
M.
Cardona,M.A.Colomer,M.J.Perez-Jimenez,A.Zaragoza: Hierarchical
clustering with membrane computing
R.
Ceterchi,M.J.Perez-Jimenez,A.I.Tomescu: Simulating
the bitonic sort on a 2D-mesh with P systems
L.
Cienciala,L.Ciencialova,A.Kelemenova: On
the number of agents in P colonies
G. Ciobanu,M.Gontineac: Networks
of Mealy multiset automata
G. Ciobanu,D.Lucanu: What
is an event for membrane systems?
E. Csuhaj-Varju,G.Vaszil: P
systems with string objects and with communication by request
G. Delzanno,L.VanBegin: On
the dynamics of PB systems with volatile membranes
D.Diaz-Pernil,M.A.Gutierrez-Naranjo,M.J.Perez-Jimenez,A.Riscos-Nunez:
A cellular solution to subset sum using
division of non-elementary membranes and dissolution, with time and
initial resources bounded by log k
R. Freund,S.Verlan: A
formal framework for P systems
P. Frisco: Conformon-P systems with negative values
A.
Gutierrez,L.Fernandez,F.Arroyo,G.Bravo: Optimizing
membrane system implementation with multisets and evolution rules
compression
T.Hinze,S.Hayat,T.Lenser,N.Matsumaru,P.Dittrich:
Hill kinetics meets P systems: A case
study on gene regulatory networks as computing agents in silico and
in vivo
M. Ionescu, D. Sburlan: Some applications of spiking neural P systems
J. Kelemen: Plain
talk about language-theoretic models of multi-agent systems
A.Leporati,C.Zandron,C.Ferretti,G.Mauri:
Solving numerical NP-complete problems
with spiking neural P systems
T. Mazza: Towards
a complete covering of SBML functionalities
D.Molteni,C.Ferretti,G.Mauri: Frequency
membrane systems
N.Murphy,D.Woods: Active
membrane systems without charges and using only symmetric elementary
division characterize P
V.Nguyen,D.Kearney,G.Gioiosa: Balancing
performance, flexibility and scalability in a parallel computing
platform for membrane computing applications
A. Obtulowicz: Multigraphical
membrane systems: a visual formalism for modeling complex systems in
biology and evolving neural networks
A.Paun,A.Rodriguez-Paton: On
flip-flop membrane systems with proteins
H.Ramesh,R.Rama: Rewriting
P systems with conditional communication: improved hierarchies
J.M.Sempere,D.Lopez: Characterizing
membrane structures through multiset tree automata
I.Stamatopoulou,P.Kefalas,M.Gheorghe:OPERASCC:
An instance of a formal framework for MAS modelling based on
population P systems
J.A.Tejedor,L.Fernandez,F.Arroyo,S.Gomez:
Algorithm of rules applications based on
competitiveness of evolution rules
M.Umeki,Y.Suzuki: Direct
simulation of the Oregonator model by using a class of P systems