Applications of Membrane Computing in Systems and Synthetic Biology 2014 Edition Contributor(s): Frisco, Pierluigi (Editor), Gheorghe, Marian (Editor), Pérez-Jiménez, Mario J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319031902 ISBN-13: 9783319031903 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics - Technology & Engineering | Engineering (general) - Science | System Theory |
Dewey: 006.3 |
Series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.27 lbs) 266 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Membrane Computing was introduced as a computational paradigm in Natural Computing. The models introduced, called Membrane (or P) Systems, provide a coherent platform to describe and study living cells as computational systems. Membrane Systems have been investigated for their computational aspects and employed to model problems in other fields, like: Computer Science, Linguistics, Biology, Economy, Computer Graphics, Robotics, etc. Their inherent parallelism, heterogeneity and intrinsic versatility allow them to model a broad range of processes and phenomena, being also an efficient means to solve and analyze problems in a novel way. Membrane Computing has been used to model biological systems, becoming with time a thorough modeling paradigm comparable, in its modeling and predicting capabilities, to more established models in this area. This book is the result of the need to collect, in an organic way, different facets of this paradigm. The chapters of this book, together with the web pages accompanying them, present different applications of Membrane Systems to Biology. Deterministic, non-deterministic and stochastic systems paired with different algorithms and methodologies show the full potential of this framework. The book is addressed to researchers interested in applications of discrete biological models and the interplay between Membrane Systems and other approaches to analyze complex systems. |