Part of the broader research field of natural computing, Membrane Computing is an area within computing science that aims to abstract computing ideas and models from the structure and functioning of living cells, as well as from the way the cells are organized in tissues or higher order structures....

This book is based on columns and tutorials published in the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) during the period 2000?2003. It presents many of the most active current research lines in theoretical computer science....

Like quantum computing or DNA computing, membrane computing is an unconventional model of computation associated with a new computing paradigm....

Containing contributions from both theoretical computer scientists and people working in areas where multi-agent architectures are involved (artificial intelligence, artificial life, linguistics, managing complex systems), this book presents both theoretical developments and applications of grammar systems of various types (cooperating distributed ...

Presents the main practical results reported so far and the main theoretical developments in DNA computing coverage....

This is the first text and monograph about DNA computing, a molecular approach that might revolutionize our thinking and ideas about computing. Although it is too soon to predict whether computer hardware to change from silicon to carbon and from microchips to DNA molecules, the theoretical premises have already been studied extensively....