Membrane computing as a modeling framework. Cellular systems case studies

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5016 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 168-214

  Păun, Gheorghe ^a   Romero Campero, Francisco José ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MEMBRANES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CASE-STUDIES; CELLULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTING MODEL; LIVING CELL; MEMBRANE COMPUTING; MODEL FRAMEWORK; NATURAL COMPUTING;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 45749125687     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68894-5_6     Document Type: Article

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