@article {510, title = {An overview of P-Lingua 2.0}, journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {5957}, year = {2010}, note = {Membrane Computing, 10th International Workshop, WMC 2009, Curtea de Arges, Romania, August 24-27, 2009, Revised Selected and Invited Papers.}, month = {01/2010}, pages = {264-288}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands}, abstract = {P{\textendash}Lingua is a programming language for membrane computing which aims to be a standard to define P systems. In order to implement this idea, a Java library called pLinguaCore has been developed as a software framework for cell{\textendash}like P systems. It is able to handle input files (either in XML or in P{\textendash}Lingua format) defining P systems from a number of different cell{\textendash}like P system models. Moreover, the library includes several built{\textendash}in simulators for each supported model. For the sake of software portability, pLinguaCore can export a P system definition to any convenient output format (currently XML and binary formats are available). This software is not a closed product, but it can be extended to accept new input or output formats and also new models or simulators. The term P{\textendash}Lingua 2.0 refers to the software package consisting of the above mentioned library together with a user interface called pLinguaPlugin (more details can be found at http://www.p-lingua.org). Finally, in order to illustrate the software, this paper includes an application using pLinguaCore for describing and simulating ecosystems by means of P systems. }, issn = {0302-9743}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-11467-0_20}, url = {http://springerlink.com/content/9019651332615113/?p=4515b9a3d094496995e253d08e41004d\&pi=19}, author = {Manuel Garc{\'\i}a-Quismondo and Rosa Guti{\'e}rrez-Escudero and Ignacio P{\'e}rez-Hurtado and Mario J. P{\'e}rez-Jim{\'e}nez and Agust{\'\i}n Riscos-N{\'u}{\~n}ez} }