Twenty Six Research Topics About Spiking Neural P Systems

To continue the tradition of the previous brainstorming weeks on membrane computing, I am collecting here a series of open problems and research topics, not about membrane computing in general, but about one of the directions of research which were pretty much investigated in the last year: spiking neural P systems. In general, one mentions issues which look of a broader nature, but also some precise problems are formulated. As usual with such lists of problems, the selection is subjective, by no means exhaustive. Of course, choosing only problems related to spiking neural P systems does not mean that there are no longer enough problems waiting to be solved in the general framework of membrane computing – on contrarily (e.g., separate lists can refer to computational complexity issues, to dynamical systems approaches, etc.), but such problems tend to become rather specialized and technical at the present stage of the development of membrane computing. Instead, the membrane computing models with a neural inspiration are at the beginning of a systematic exploration, and, as claimed below, this area of research looks very promising.