A Simulation Software Tool for Cell-like Spiking Neural P Systems

Spiking neural P systems (SN P systems, for short) constitute a class of computing models in the research field of membrane computing. Inspired by the interactions among neurons in the brain, they have attracted much attention since their appearance in 2006. Many variants have emerged, presenting a graph-based structure, and several software simulators were developed for them. Recently, a different approach was proposed by introducing cell-like spiking neural P systems. Unlike previous SN P systems, this new model includes a tree-based structure, taking elements from traditional rewriting rules in the original P systems. In this work, a software tool within the framework of P-Lingua and MeCoSim is presented. This software may play an important role assisting in tasks of design, simulation and experimental validation.