An Application of Genetic Algorithms to Membrane Computing

Abstract

The process of designing a P system in order to perform a task is a hard job. The researcher has often only an approximate idea of the design, but finding the exact description of the rules is a heavy hand-made work. In this paper we introduce PSystemEvolver, an evolutionary algorithm based on generative encoding, that could help to design a P system to perform a specific task. We illustrate the use of PSystemEvolver with a simple mathematical problem: the computation of squared numbers.