On P Colonies and Virus Machines
摘要
In the framework of membrane computing, different approximations have been taken from the perspective of the behaviour of the different compartments and types of objects. An interesting class of membrane systems is P colonies, taking inspiration from multi-agent systems where the cells act as agents and can interact with the environment, apart from being able to change the nature of the objects they are in contact with. It has been demonstrated that they are universal devices, thus their computational power is equivalent to Turing machines. Since some software simulators have been developed for P colonies, in this work we introduce the efficient simulation of a novel model of computation, virus machines, by means of P colonies. We describe the process of generation of a P colony and the analysis of computational resources.