MeCoSim Releases

*MeCoSim* ( *Me* mbrane *Co* mputing *Sim* ulator) is a software application that offers the users a _General Purpose Application_ to generate their own specific simulators by simply customizing the general tool (filling a .xls configuration file) for each scenario of interest.

The P System designer fills the .xls file to customize the general application, establishing a hierarchical structure of tabs to appear in the main window, configuring the input ans output tables to provide the end user and defining a set of parameters to convert input data into different variable parameters to use in the definition of the model. The application accepts the .xls file and provides a customized application adapted to the described scenario.

Then the designer writes a file in "P-Lingua":http://www.p-lingua.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page format to specify the P System model and loads the file in the application, possibly setting here some parameters as the number of simulations, etc. The specific purpose application is ready to interact with the designer, to test the designed model in an iterative way, running simulations in a process of experimental validation, and then with the end user, to accept its data and run the requested simulations making use of "pLinguaCore":http://www.p-lingua.org/wiki/index.php/PLinguaCore.

The end user, expert in the problem domain, will be able to make different virtual experiments from the configuration and the model introduced by the designer, providing the customized application different input data entered in the input tables of the main window.

The entire process is described in the "foundational paper":http://www.cs.us.es/~marper/investigacion/mecosim.pdf presented in BIC-TA 2010.

An auto-updatable version of MeCoSim is available here: !webstart.small.jpg!:http://www.p-lingua.org/mecosim/jnlp/MeCoSim.jnlp. 

If you want to forget about downloading new releases whenever a functionality of MeCoSim has changed, this is the right version for you. 

It is based on "Java Web Start":http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_webstart.xml technology. The first time you run "Launch" button, the proper files will be downloaded in your machine, and MeCoSim folder structure will be created, along with the first running of MeCoSim. If you are running on Windows, a shorcut will be created in your desktop and your main menu (MeCoSim > MeCoSim). If you are running under other OS, you can run from the Web button or from Java Web Start cache (see "link":http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_webstart.xml ).