ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Volume 4, Numbers 1-2, 2001, 155 - 170
Monoidals for Molecules and Membranes
Vincenzo MANCA
Universita di Pisa, Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa, Italy
Abstract.
Monoidals
are computationally universal formalisms where a great quantity of other formalisms can be
easily represented. Many symbolic systems from different areas are expressed as monoidals.
The possibility is outlined that these systems express localization aspects typical of
membrane systems and other phenomena such as temporality and multiplicity that are
essential in the formalization of molecule manipulation systems. |