This book explains advanced theoretical and application-related issues in grammatical inference, a research area inside the inductive inference paradigm for machine learning. The first three chapters of the book deal with issues regarding theoretical learning frameworks; the next four chapters focus on the main classes of formal languages according to Chomsky's hierarchy, in particular regular and context-free languages; and the final chapter addresses the processing of biosequences.

The topics chosen are of foundational interest with relatively mature and established...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the International Conference on Membrane Computing, CMC 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in August 2015.
The 22 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The volume also contains 3 invited talks in full-paper length.