Membrane System-Based Models for Specifying Dynamical Population Systems

Abstract

Population Dynamics P systems (PDP systems, in short) provide a newformal bio-inspired modelling framework, which has been successfully used formodelling population dynamics on real ecosystems. The semantics of these systemsis captured by the Direct distribution based on Consistent Blocks Algorithm (DCBA),which has been engineered into software simulation tools. In particular,MeCoSim(Membrane Computing Simulator) is a GUI developed in the framework ofP-Linguathat can be used as a simulation environment for running virtual experiments. Theparameters of each scenario to be simulated can be easily adjusted in a visual way,as well as the settings for the desired output format, thus facilitating the validation