GARCÍA QUISMONDO , Manuel

Understanding the remarkable ability of some organisms to restore their anatomical shape following the amputation of large parts of their bodies is currently a major unsolved ques- tion in regenerative biology and biomedicine. Despite rapid advances in the molecular pro- cesses required for regeneration, a systems level, algorithmic...

P system represents a distributed and parallel computing model in which basic data structures are, for instance, multisets and strings. Enzymatic Numerical P Systems are a type of P systems whose basic data structures are sets of numerical variables. Separately, GPGPU is a novel technological paradigm which focuses on the development of tools...

This paper is a tribute to Prof. Mario de Jesús Pérez- Jiménez. An overview of modelling applications in membrane computing has been compiled, trying to narrate it from a historical perspective and including numerous bibliographical references. Since being exhaustive was obviously out of scope, this quick tour on almost two decades of...

P systems are computational devices versatile enough to represent many real-life scenarios. In this paper, we present a first interpretation for P systems where a computation produces a set of sounds. The idea is to associate sounds to the application of specific rules in the P system. The application of such rules produces sounds of one time...

The endangered population of roseate terns (Sterna dougallii) in the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean consistsof a network of large and small breeding colonies on islands. This type of fragmented population poses anexceptional opportunity to investigate dispersal, a mechanism that is fundamental in population dynam-ics and is crucial to understand...

Enzymatic Numerical P Systems (ENPS), an extension of Numerical P Systems, have been successfully applied to model robot controllers. GPGPU is an innovative technological paradigm which applies the parallel architecture of graphic cards to solve parallel, general{purpose problems. In previous work, a GPU simulator for ENPS was introduced. In...

Diel vertical migration (DVM) is an important ecological phenomenon in which zooplankton migrate vertically to deal with trade-offs associated with greater food availability in shallow waters and lower predator risk in deep waters due to lower light availability. Because of these trade-offs, DVM dynamics are particularly sensitive to changes in...

Multienvironment P systems constitute a general, formal framework for modelling the dynamics of population biology, which consists of two main approaches: stochastic and probabilistic. The framework has been successfully used to model biologic systems at both micro (e.g. bacteria colony) and macro (e.g. real ecosystems) levels, respectively. In...

In this paper, we extend the general framework of Multienvironment P systems, which is a formal framework for modelling the dynamics of population biology. The extension is made by a new variant within the probabilistic approach, called Probabilistic Guarded P systems (in short, PGP systems).We provide a formal de nition, a simulation algorithm...

During mammalian central nervous system development, an enormous variety of cell types are generated. This cell diversity is due in part to asymmetrical cell division. Indeed, in some sense Notch signals link the fate decisions of one cell to those of its neighbours. This fundamental signalling pathway has not yet been modeled within membrane...

P-Lingua is a programming language for membrane computing. It was rst presented in Edinburgh, during the Ninth Workshop on Membrane Computing (WMC9). In this paper, the models, simulators and formats included in P-Lingua in version 2.0 are explained. We focus on the stochastic model, associated simulators and updated features. Finally, we...

Gene regulatory networks are useful models for biologists to understand the interactions among genes in living organisms. In this work, we consider a special class of gene regulatory networks, called logical networks, where the "links" among genes are inferred by logic analysis of phylogenetic profiles. We provide a formalization of logic...

Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) are a useful tool for biologists to understand the interactions among genes in living organisms. A special kind of GRNs known as Logic Networks (LNs) has been recently introduced. These networks consider that the state of one or more genes can in uence another one. In a previous work, we proposed a Membrane...

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Sudoku is a very popular puzzle which consists on placing several numbers in a squared grid according to some simple rules. In this paper we present an efficient family of P systems which solve sudoku puzzles of any order verifying a specific property. The solution is searched by using a simple human-style method. If the sudoku cannot be...

The habitat of the green-veined white butterfly Pieris oleracea in eastern North America has undergone invasions by the exotic plant garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), which is replacing native hosts of P. oleracea such as Cardamine diphylla. A. petiolata was originally lethal to most larvae of the native butterfly but during the past 20+...

A basic P system, called kernel P system4 (kP system for short), combining features of di erent P systems introduced and studied so far is de ned and discussed. The structure of such systems is de ned as a dynamic graph, similar to tissue-like P systems, the objects are organised as multisets, and the rules in each compartment, rewriting...

Sudoku is a very popular puzzle which consists on placing several numbers in a squared grid according to some simple rules. In this paper we present an efficient family of P systems which solve sudokus of any order verifying a specific property. The solution is searched by using a simple human-style method. If the sudoku cannot be solved by...

P–Lingua is a programming language for membrane computing which aims to be a standard to define P systems. In order to implement this idea, a Java library called pLinguaCore has been developed as a software framework for cell–like P systems. It is able to handle input files (either in XML or in P–Lingua format) defining P systems from a number...

P-Lingua is a programming language for membrane computing. It was first presented in Edinburgh, during the Ninth Workshop on Membrane Computing (WMC9). In this paper, the models, simulators and formats included in P-Lingua in version 2.0 are explained. We focus on the stochastic model, associated simulators and updated features. Finally, we...

This paper presents the newly introduced class of (simple) kernel P systems ((s)kP systems) and investigates through a 3-colouring problem case study the expressive power and efficiency of kernel P systems. It describes two skP systems that model the problem and analyses them in terms of efficiency and complexity. The skP models prove to be...

A P system represents a distributed and parallel computing model in which basic data structures are, for instance, multisets and strings. Enzymatic Numerical P Systems (ENPS) are a type of P systems whose basic data structures are sets of numerical variables. Separately, GPGPU (general-purpose computing on graphics processing units) is a novel...