Membrane Computing International Workshop, WMC-CdeA 2002, Curtea de Arges, Romania, August 19-23, 2002, Revised Papers

Molecular Biology of Bacteria and Its Relevance for P Systems.- A Software Simulation of Transition P Systems in Haskell.- Authentication of Messages Using P Systems.- Eilenberg P Systems.- A MzScheme Implementation of Transition P Systems.- Preliminaries about Some Possible Applications of P Systems in Linguistics.- An Application of Dynamic P Systems: Generating Context-Free Languages.- P Systems with Boundary Rules.- Parallel Rewriting P Systems without Target Conflicts.- Evolution-Communication P Systems.- Dynamic P Systems.- Membrane Systems and Distributed Computing.- Client-Server P Systems in Modeling Molecular Interaction.- P Automata or Purely Communicating Accepting P Systems.- Self-activating P Systems.- Energy-Controlled P Systems.- P Systems with Activated/Prohibited Membrane Channels.- Membrane Systems with Symport/Antiport Rules: Universality Results.- Simulating Counter Automata by P Systems with Symport/Antiport.- Towards a Hierarchy of Conformons - P Systems.- Accretive Rules in Cayley P Systems.- Tissue P Systems with Contextual and Rewriting Rules.- Considerations on a Multiset Model for Membrane Computing.- A Survey of Some Variants of P Systems.- Bridging P Systems and Genomics: A Preliminary Approach.- Probabilistic P Systems.- Decision P Systems and the P?NP Conjecture.- P Systems without Priorities Are Computationally Universal.- The Architecture of Living Structures -A Possible Basis for Molecular Computing.