L Systems [electronic resource] / edited by Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa.

Theory of L systems: From the point of view of formal language theory -- A model for the growth and flowering of aster novae-angliae on the basis of table L-systems -- Adding continuous components to L-systems -- Formal language theoretical approach to intracellular behavior -- Three useful results concerning L languages without interactions -- On the size of dol languages -- Generatively deterministic L languages. Subword point of view -- Growth of strings in context dependent Lindenmayer systems -- Some growth functions of context-dependent L-systems -- Dol systems with rank -- Equivalence of L-systems -- The syntactic inference problem for dol-sequences -- Free groups in Lindenmayer systems -- Notes on pre-set pushdown automata -- Recurrence systems -- Adult languages of L systems and the Chomsky hierarchy -- Structured OL-systems -- Context in parallel rewriting -- Nonterminals and codings in defining variations of OL-systems -- Iteration grammars and lindenmayer AFL's -- Hyper-AFL's and ETOL systems -- ?-OL systems -- Bounded parallelism and regular languages -- Multidimensional Lindenmayer organisms -- Bibliography on L systems.