This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th
International Conference on Membrane Computing CMC 2013 held in Chisinau Republic of Moldova
in August 2013. The 16 revised selected papers presented together with 6 invited lectures were
carefully reviewed and selected from 26 papers presented at the conference. Membrane computing
is an area of computer science aiming to abstract computing ideas and models from the structure
and the functioning of living cells as well as from the way the cells are organized in tissues
or higher order structures. It deals with membrane systems also called P systems which are
distributed and parallel algebraic models processing multi sets of objects in a localized
manner (evolution rules and evolving objects are encapsulated into compartments delimited by
membranes) with an essential role played by the communication among compartments and with the
environment.
