Membrane Computing [electronic resource] : 16th International Conference, CMC 2015, Valencia, Spain, August 17-21, 2015, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa, José M. Sempere, Claudio Zandron.

Information Theory in Genome Analysis -- Towards a Theory of Life -- An Excursion through Quantitative Model Refinement -- Polarizationless P Systems with One Active Membrane -- Bridging Deterministic P Systems and Conditional Grammars -- Automated Verification of Stochastic Spiking Neural P Systems -- Dynamically Changing Environment for Generalized Communicating P Systems -- Spiking Neural P Systems with Structural Plasticity: Attacking the Subset Sum Problem -- P Systems with Generalized Multisets over Totally Ordered Abelian Groups -- On the Power of Catalytic P Systems with One Catalyst -- An Integrated Model Checking Toolset for Kernel P Systems -- A New Strategy to Improve the Performance of PDP-systems Simulators -- Automatic Translation of MP+V Systems to Register Machines -- On the Communication Complexity of the Vertex Cover Problem and 3-Satisfiability Problem in ECP systems -- Membrane Computing Meets Temperature: A Thermoreceptor Model as Molecular Slide Rule with Evolutionary Potential -- A Solution of Horn-SAT with P Systems Using Antimatter -- Tissue P systems can be Simulated Efficiently with Counting Oracles -- Simulating FRSN P systems with real numbers in P-Lingua on sequential and CUDA platforms -- Pictures and Chomsky Languages in Array P System -- Sorting Using Spiking Neural P Systems with Anti-Spikes and Rules on Synapses -- Regulating Rule Application with Membrane Boundaries in P Systems -- Structured Grid Algorithms Modelled with Complex Objects -- Chemistry-inspired Adaptive Stream Processing -- Computing Partial Recursive Functions by Virus Machines -- About models derived from colonies.