Complexity classes for membrane systems

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-162

  Porreca, Antonio E ^a   Mauri, Giancarlo ^a   Zandron, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational complexity; Membrane systems; Molecular computing

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEMBRANES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TURING MACHINES;

DISTRIBUTED PARALLEL COMPUTING DEVICE; MEMBRANE SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR COMPUTING;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 33746310908     PISSN: 09883754     EISSN: 28047346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/ita:2006001     Document Type: Article

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