Ricerc@Sapienza

Reaction systems, motivated by the functioning of the living cell, became a novel model of interactive computation. In this paper, we pursue this line of research. More specifically, we present a systematic investigation of possible interactions of a reaction system with its environment (context). While in the original definition this interaction is one-way, i.e., the behavior of a reaction system is influenced by its environment, we investigate now also the influence of the system on its environment, where a possible time delay of this influence is also considered.

In this paper, we study the behavior (processes) of reaction systems where the context is not arbitrary, but it has its own structure. In particular, we consider a model where the context for a reaction system originates from a network of reaction systems. Such a network is formalized as a graph with reaction systems residing at its nodes, where each reaction system contributes to defining the context of all its neighbors.