@incollection{old, abstract = {We consider extended variants of spiking neural P systems and show how these extensions of the original model allow for easy proofs of the computational completeness of extended spiking neural P systems and for the characterization of semilinear sets and regular languages by finite extended spiking neural P systems (defined by having only finite checking sets in the rules assigned to the cells) with only a bounded number of neurons.}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, author = {Alhazov, Artiom and Freund, Rudolf and Oswald, Marion and Slavkovik, Marija}, booktitle = {Membrane Computing}, editor = {Hoogeboom, Hendrik Jan and P{\u{a}}un, Gheorghe and Rozenberg, Grzegorz and Salomaa, Arto}, isbn = {978-3-540-69090-0}, pages = {123--134}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, title = {Extended Spiking Neural P Systems}, year = {2006}}