About CMC14

In the period of August 20–23, 2013 the 14th International Conference on Membrane Computing, CMC14 (http://www.math.md/ cmc14/), took place in Chişinău, Moldova. The goal of CMC14 was to bring together researchers working in membrane computing and related fields, in a friendly atmosphere enhancing communication, cooperation and continuing the tradition of past meetings. The CMC series was initiated by Gheorghe Păun as the Workshop on Multiset Processing in the year 2000. Then two workshops on Membrane Computing were organized in Curtea de Argeş, Romania, in 2001 and 2002. A selection of papers of these three meetings was published as volume 2235 of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae (volume 49, numbers 1-3, 2002), and as volume 2597 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, respectively. The next six workshops were organized in Tarragona, Spain (in July 2003), Milan, Italy (in June 2004), Vienna, Austria (in July 2005), Leiden, The Netherlands (in July 2006), Thessaloniki, Greece (in June 2007), and Edinburgh, UK (in July 2008), with the proceedings published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science as volumes 2933, 3365, 3850, 4361, 4860, and 5391, respectively. The 10th workshop returned to Curtea de Argeş in August 2009 (LNCS volume 5957). From the year 2010, the series of meetings on membrane computing continued as the Conference on Membrane Computing with the 2010, 2011 and 2012 editions held in Jena, Germany (LNCS volume 6501), Fontainebleau, France (LNCS volume 7184), and Budapest, Hungary (LNCS volume 7762). A Steering Committee takes care of the continuation of the CMC series which is organized under the auspices of the European Molecular