Formal Methods in Software Engineering

Operational Semantics and Rewriting Logic in Membrane Computing

Year2006
TypeJournal
StatusPublished
AuthorsOana Andrei, Dorel Lucanu, Gabriel Ciobanu

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Abstract

The existing results in membrane computing refer mainly to the P systems char-
acterization of Turing computability, and to some polynomial solutions to NP-
complete problems by using an exponential workspace created in a \biological way".
In this paper we de ne an operational semantics of these P systems, and give a trans-
lation of the operational semantics into rewriting logic. We present some results re-
garding this translation, including an operational correspondence, and discuss why
such a translation is relevant in order to take advantage of good features of both
structural operational semantics and rewriting logic.

BibTeX

@article{DBLP:journals/entcs/AndreiLC06, author = {Oana Andrei and Dorel Lucanu and Gabriel Ciobanu}, title = {Operational Semantics and Rewriting Logic in Membrane Computing}, journal = {Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci.}, volume = {156}, number = {1}, year = {2006}, pages = {57-78}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2005.10.028 [ENTCS]} }