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Some Issues on an Object-Oriented Programming Language for Physarum Machines

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The main goal of the paper is to describe essential aspects of a new object-oriented 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 slime mould. The main 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 a machine code that is, in case of Physarum machines, a spatial distribution of stimuli.

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This research is supported by FP7-ICT-2011-8.

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  1. University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszów, Poland

    Krzysztof Pancerz & Andrew Schumann

  2. University of Management and Administration, Zamość, Poland

    Krzysztof Pancerz

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  1. Katedra aplikované matematiky, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

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  2. Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia

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  3. University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland

    Krzysztof Pancerz

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Pancerz, K., Schumann, A. (2016). Some Issues on an Object-Oriented Programming Language for Physarum Machines. In: Bris, R., Majernik, J., Pancerz, K., Zaitseva, E. (eds) Applications of Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Technology. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 606. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19147-8_11

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