Memory about the 14 th BWMC: SN P systems vs. ESN P systems with Transmittable States

The objectives of this memory are, on one hand, to provide a general overview about the topic of Membrane Computing, answering basic questions as what is it, which are its basic elements, which problems it allows to solve, its current limita- tions... and, on the other hand, to provide a more speci c information about the model of Spiking Neural P systems in both its original formulation and on the variant of the model suggested on the 14th edition of the Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing, the Extended Spiking Neural P systems with Transmittable States. The motivation to further explore the topic of Spiking Neural P systems (SN P systems for short) comes from the idea that they could be a really suitable framework in order to model chain-reaction processes as the ssion of 235U taking place inside a nuclear reactor