@article {1928, title = {Fuzzy Membrane Computing: Theory and Applications}, journal = {International Journal of Computers, Communications and Control}, volume = {10}, year = {2015}, pages = {904-935}, publisher = {Agora University Editing House - CCC Publications}, address = {Oradea, Romania}, abstract = {Fuzzy membrane computing is a newly developed and promising research direction in the area of membrane computing that aims at exploring the complex in- teraction between membrane computing and fuzzy theory. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of theoretical developments and various applications of fuzzy membrane computing, and sketches future research lines. The theoretical develop- ments are reviewed from the aspects of uncertainty processing in P systems, fuzzifica- tion of P systems and fuzzy knowledge representation and reasoning. The applications of fuzzy membrane computing are mainly focused on fuzzy knowledge representation and fault diagnosis. An overview of different types of fuzzy P systems, differences between spiking neural P systems and fuzzy reasoning spiking neural P systems and newly obtained results on these P systems are presented.}, keywords = {fuzzy membrane computing, fuzzy reasoning spiking neural P systems, fuzzy set, linguistic term, Membrane computing, multi-fuzzy set, trapezoidal fuzzy number}, issn = {1841-9836}, doi = {doi: 10.15837/ijccc.2015.6.2080}, url = {http://univagora.ro/jour/index.php/ijccc/article/view/2080}, author = {Tao Wang and Gexiang Zhang and Mario J. P{\'e}rez-Jim{\'e}nez} }