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Membrane systems are distributed and parallel computing devices inspired from the structure and the functioning of living cells, called P systems. Most variant of P systems have been proved to be universal in the model of maximally parallel mode. But this hypothesis does not have biologically realistic support. In order to construct a more “realistic” system, we introduce the minimal parallelism into the protein P systems. Minimal parallelism is a way the rules of a P system used: from each set of applicable rules associated to the same membrane, at least one must be applied. We investigate the computing power of P systems with proteins on membranes working in the minimal parallelism mode. Such systems are shown to be computationally complete even with only three membranes and one protein on each membrane.
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Lu, C., Chen, Xj., Shi, Xl. (2012). P Systems with Proteins Working in the Minimally Parallel Mode. In: Tan, H. (eds) Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 135. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27708-5_69
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