A weakly universal spiking neural P system

✍ Scribed by Xiangxiang Zeng; Chun Lu; Linqiang Pan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 472 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-7177
• DOI: 10.1016/j.mcm.2010.04.017

✦ Synopsis

Looking for small universal computing devices is a natural and well investigated topic in computer science. Recently, this topic was also investigated in the framework of spiking neural P systems. One of the small universality results is that a small weakly universal extended spiking neural P system with 12 neurons was constructed. In this paper, a new way is introduced for simulating register machines by spiking neural P systems, where only one neuron is used for all instructions of the register machine; in this way, we can use less neurons to construct universal spiking neural P system. Specifically, we give a smaller weakly universal spiking neural P system that uses extended rules and has only 9 neurons.