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The use of models is intrinsic to any scientific activity. In particular, formal/mathematical models provide a relevant tool for scientific investigation. This paper presents a new Membrane Computing based computational paradigm as a framework for modelling processes and real-life phenomena. P systems, devices in Membrane Computing, are not used as a computing paradigm, but rather as a formalism for describing the behaviour of the system to be modelled. They offer an approach to the development of models for biological systems that meets the requirements of a good modelling framework: relevance, understandability, extensibility and computability.
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Pérez-Jiménez, M.J. (2014). A Bioinspired Computing Approach to Model Complex Systems. In: Gheorghe, M., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Sosík, P., Zandron, C. (eds) Membrane Computing. CMC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8961. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14370-5_2
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