Title : 
Solving 3-coloring problem by tissue P systems with cell separation
         
        
            Author : 
Wang, Shuo ; Miao, Zhengke ; Shi, Xiaolong ; Zhang, Zheng
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Control Sci. & Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Tissue P systems are a class of distributed and parallel computing models inspired by intercellular communication and cooperation between neurons. An interesting variant of tissue P systems is known as tissue P systems with cell separation, which is endowed with the ability of generating an exponential workspace in a linear time and in this way getting the possibility to solve computationally hard problems in polynomial time. In this paper, a uniform solution to 3-coloring problem by tissue P systems with cell separation is presented, which is linear in terms of the number of vertices and the number of edges.
         
        
            Keywords : 
biocomputing; graph colouring; 3-coloring problem; cell separation; distributed computing model; intercellular communication; parallel computing model; tissue P systems; Biomembranes; Distributed computing; Image processing; Intelligent control; Mathematical model; Mathematics; NP-complete problem; Neurons; Polynomials; Tree graphs;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Bio-Inspired Computing, 2009. BIC-TA '09. Fourth International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Beijing
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3866-2
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3867-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338122