This book contains revised selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Membrane Computing, CMC 2017, held in Bradford, UK, in July 2017. The 18 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions.

Simulating Evolutional Symport/Antiport by Evolution-Communication and Vice Versa in Tissue P Systems with Parallel Communication.- Hierarchical P Systems with Randomized Right-hand Sides of Rules.- Controlled Reversibility in Reaction Systems.- Multi-set Patterns and Their Application to Dynamic Causalities in Membrane Systems.- Counting Membrane Systems.- APCol Systems with Teams.- Bi-simulation Between P Colonies and P Systems with Multi-stable Catalysts.- Computationally Complete Generalized Communicating P Systems with Three Cells.- Event-based Life in a Nutshell: How Evaluation of Individual Life Cycles Can Reveal Statistical Inferences Using Action-accumulating P Systems.- On Evolution-Communication P Systems with Energy Having Bounded and Unbounded Communication.- Generalized P Colony Automata and Their Relation to P Automata.- Modeling and Validating an Engineering Application in Kernel P Systems.- Solving a Special Case of the P Conjecture Using Dependency Graphs with Dissolution.- Most Common Words -- A cP Systems Solution.- Tissue P Systems with Rule Production/Removal.- Reversing Steps in Membrane Systems Computations.- Families of Languages Encoded by SN P Systems.- On the Robust Power of Morphogenetic Systems for Time Bounded Computation.

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