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In this paper we address the problem of describing the complexity of the evolution of a P system. This issue is is specially hard in the case of P systems with active membranes, where the number of steps of a computation is not sufficient to evaluate the complexity. Sevilla carpets were introduced in [1], and they describe the space-time complexity of P systems. Based on them, we define some new parameters which can be used to compare evolutions of P systems. To illustrate this, we also include two different cellular solutions to the Subset Sum problem and compare them via these new parameters.
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Gutiérrez-Naranjo, M.A., Pérez-Jiménez, M.J., Riscos-Núñez, A. (2005). On Descriptive Complexity of P Systems. In: Mauri, G., Păun, G., Pérez-Jiménez, M.J., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A. (eds) Membrane Computing. WMC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3365. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31837-8_20
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