Some issues on an object-oriented programming language for physarum machines

Abstract

Themain goal of the paper is to describe essential aspects of a new objectoriented programming (OOP) language, called the Physarum language, for Physarum machines. A Physarum machine is a biological computing device experimentally implemented in the plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum, a single cell organism, also called true slimemould. Themain attention is focused on a language specification based on selected high-level models describing behaviour of Physarum machines as well as a computer tool created for parsing the Physarum language statements and producing amachine code that is, in case of Physarum machines, a spatial distribution of stimuli.