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Events, Causality, and Concurrency in Membrane Systems

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Membrane Computing (WMC 2007)

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This paper presents a modular approach to causality in membrane systems, using both string and multiset rewriting. In order to deal with membrane systems, the event structures are extended with notions like maximal concurrent transitions and saturated states with respect to concurrency. The event structure of a membrane system is defined in two steps: first the event structure of a maximal parallel step in membranes is defined, and then it is combined with a communication step. The main result of the paper proves that an event structure of a membrane corresponds to its operational semantics. Event structures for communicating membranes are also defined.

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  1. “A.I.Cuza” University of Iaşi, Faculty of Computer Science,  

    Gabriel Ciobanu & Dorel Lucanu

  2. Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer Science, Iaşi,  

    Gabriel Ciobanu

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George Eleftherakis Petros Kefalas Gheorghe Păun Grzegorz Rozenberg Arto Salomaa

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Ciobanu, G., Lucanu, D. (2007). Events, Causality, and Concurrency in Membrane Systems. In: Eleftherakis, G., Kefalas, P., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A. (eds) Membrane Computing. WMC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4860. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77312-2_13

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