Spiking neural P systems with structural plasticity and mute rules

Abstract

Spiking neural P systems (SNP systems) are a kind of distributed parallel device inspired by spike coding and communication of biological neurons. A new variant–spiking neural P systems with structural plasticity and mute rules (SNSMP systems) is proposed by this article, which introduce mute rules into SNP systems with structural plasticity. SNSMP systems implement the function of creating and deleting synapses between neurons by using structural plasticity rules, as well as using mute rules to increase or to decrease spikes themselves. The computing power of the SNSMP systems as a number generation and an accepting device are shown to be Turing complete, and also as a computing function device.