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P-Lingua is a programming language for Membrane Computing which aims to be a standard to define P systems. It and its associated tools have been developed by members of the Research Group on Natural Computing, at the University of Seville, Spain.

We provide P-Lingua and its associated tools as a free and reusable package for the development of software/hardware applications capable of simulate P system computations.

In order to implement this idea, a Java library called pLinguaCore has been produced as a software framework for cell-like, tissue-like and spiking neural-like P system simulators. It is able to handle input files (either in XML format or in P-Lingua format) defining P systems from a number of different supported models. Moreover, the library includes several built-in simulators for each model. For the sake of software portability, pLinguaCore can export a P system definition to any convenient output format (currently XML format and binary format are available). PLinguaCore is not a closed product, but it can be extended to accept new input or output formats and also new models or simulators.

There are several applications in development using P-Lingua. This website is available to download the libraries and applications, as well as provides technical information. In addition, this site aims to be a meeting point for users and developers through the use of forums (an user account is needed).

The main developer of P-Lingua and its related tools is Ignacio Pérez-Hurtado [1].

Please, contact us for any suggestion or comment.

Latest version

The latest version of P-Lingua and pLinguaCore is 4.0, released on 28/09/2013. It provides new features with respect to previous version, such as more supported models.

P-Lingua is being re-engineered from scratch in its version 5.0, now written in C++. The development version is accessible in github [2].

Publications

The main publications about P-Lingua and PLinguaCore up to now are:

Journal Papers

• A P-Lingua based Simulator for Tissue P Systems with Cell Separation
  I. Pérez-Hurtado, L. Valencia-Cabrera, J.M. Chacón, A. Riscos-Núñez, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez
  Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, 17 , 1 (2014), 89-102.
• A P-Lingua based simulator for Spiking Neural P systems
  L.F. Macías, I. Pérez-Hurtado, M. García-Quismondo, L. Valencia, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez, A. Riscos-Núñez
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7184 (2012), 257-281.
• A P-Lingua based simulator for Tissue P systems
  M.A. Martínez-del-Amor, I. Pérez-Hurtado, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez, A. Riscos-Núñez
  Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming, 79, 6 (2010), 374-382.
• An overview of P-Lingua 2.0
  M. García-Quismondo, R. Gutiérrez-Escudero, I. Pérez-Hurtado, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez, A. Riscos-Núñez
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5957 (2010), 264-288
• P-Lingua 2.0: A software framework for cell-like P systems
  M. García-Quismondo, R. Gutiérrez-Escudero, M.A. Martínez-del-Amor, E. Orejuela-Pinedo, I. Pérez-Hurtado
  International Journal of Computers, Communications and Control, 4, 3 (2009), 234-243.
• A P-lingua programming environment for Membrane Computing
  D. Díaz-Pernil, I. Pérez-Hurtado, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez Mario, A. Riscos-Núñez
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5391 (2009), 187-203.

Conference Papers

• Kernel P Systems - Version I
  M. Gheorghe, F. Ipate, C. Dragomir, L. Mierlă, L. Valencia-Cabrera, M. García-Quismondo, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez
  11th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing, 02/2013, Seville, Spain, p.97-124, (2013)
• DCBA: Simulating Population Dynamics P Systems with Proportional Object Distribution
  M.A. Martínez-del-Amor, I. Pérez-Hurtado, M. García-Quismondo, L.F. Macías-Ramos, L. Valencia-Cabrera, A. Romero-Jiménez, C. Graciani-Díaz, A. Riscos-Núñez, M.A. Colomer, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez
  10th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing, 02/2012, Volume II, Seville, Spain, p.27-56, (2012)
• P-Lingua: a programming language for membrane computing
  A. Riscos-Núñez, I. Pérez-Hurtado
  Algebraic Computing, Soft Computing, and Program Verification, April 2010, Castro Urdiales, Spain, (2010)
• An overview of P-lingua 2.0
  M. García-Quismondo, R. Gutiérrez-Escudero, I. Pérez-Hurtado, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez, A. Riscos-Núñez
  10th Workshop on Membrane Computing, 24-27/08/2009, p.240-264, (2009)
• P-Lingua 2.0: New features and first applications
  M. García-Quismondo, R. Gutiérrez-Escudero, I. Pérez-Hurtado, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez
  7th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing, 02/02/2009, Volume I, Sevilla, España, p.141-168, (2009)
• A P-lingua programming environment for Membrane Computing
  A. Riscos-Núñez, D. Díaz-Pernil, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez, I. Pérez-Hurtado
  9th Workshop on Membrane Computing, July 28-31, 2008, Edinburgh, The U.K., p.187-203, (2008)
• P-Lingua: A programming language for membrane computing
  D. Díaz-Pernil, I. Pérez-Hurtado, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez, A. Riscos-Núñez
  6th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing, Volume 6, Sevilla, Spain, p.135-155, (2008)

Ph.D. Theses

• An environment for virtual experimentation with computational models based on P systems
  Luis Valencia Cabrera
  2015. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. University of Seville.
• Modelling and Simulation of Real-life Phenomena in Membrane Computing
  Manuel García-Quismondo
  2014. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. University of Seville.
• Accelerating Membrane Systems Simulators using High Performance Computing with GPU
  Miguel Ángel Martínez-del-Amor
  2013. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. University of Seville.
• Desarrollo y aplicaciones de un entorno de programación para Computación Celular: P-Lingua
  Ignacio Pérez-Hurtado.
  2010. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. University of Seville.