Model Checking Kernel P Systems

Modelling and Validating an Engineering Application in Kernel P Systems

“…Kernel P systems are supported by an integrated software suite, kPWorkbench [5], which employs a set of simulation and formal verification tools and methods that permit simulating and verifying kP system models, written in kP-Lingua.…”

“…Kernel P systems are supported by a software suite, called kPWorkbench [5]. The platform integrates several tools to simulate and verify kP systems models written in a modelling language, called kP-Lingua, capable of mapping the kernel P system specification into a machine readable representation.…”

“…quorum sensing [18], genetic Boolean gates [23] and synthetic pulse generators [1], to some classical computational problems, e.g. sorting [6], broadcasting [10] and subset sum [5].…”

Comparative Analysis of Statistical Model Checking Tools

“…The basis of such models is state machines, which can be used to model numerous variables and relate different system states (configurations) to one another [21]. There have been various attempts to model biological systems from a computational point of view, including the use of Boolean networks [31], Petri nets [45], the π-calculus [39], interacting state machines [25], L-systems [38] and variants of P systems (membrane systems) [5,17,23,29,33,42]. These techniques are useful for investigating the qualitative features, as are their stochastic counterparts (e.g., stochastic Petri Nets [26] and stochastic P systems [8,43]) are useful for investigating the quantitative features of computation models.…”

“…In order to facilitate the modelling and analysis tasks, several software suites have been proposed, such as Infobiotics Workbench [9] (based on stochastic P systems [10]) and kPWorkbench framework (based on kernel P systems [17]) [17,34]. As part of the computational analysis, these tools employ more than one model checker.…”