A visual language for modelling and simulation of networks of evolutionary processors

Abstract

The goal of this work is to provide the jNEP user with a visual tool to graphically design the NEPs under consideration. jNEP is a Java simulator for NEPs previously developed by some of the authors of this paper. We have designed a domain specific visual language for NEPs by means of AToM3. We have also taken advantage of the AToM3 ’s graph grammar modules to automate some mechanical and time-consuming designing tasks, such as properly placing filters close to their processors, and defining some kinds of standard graph topologies. AToM3 is a python tool previously developed by some of the authors of this paper.