This volume refers to the formal description of mobility in computer science, using p-calculus, ambient calculus, bioambients, brane calculi, and systems of mobile membranes. Concepts are supported by examples and exercises, which makes it suitable for relevant courses.

The design of formal calculi in which fundamental concepts underlying interactive systems can be described and studied has been a central theme of theoretical computer science in recent decades, while membrane computing, a rule-based formalism inspired by biological cells, is a more recent field that belongs to the general area of natural computing. This is the first book to establish a link between these two research directions while treating mobility as the central topic. In the first chapter the authors offer a formal description of mobility in process calculi, noting the entities that...