TY - CONF AU - Plotnikov, Dimitri AU - Blundell, Inga AU - Ippen, Tammo AU - Eppler, Jochen Martin AU - Rumpe, Bernhard AU - Morrison, Abigail TI - NESTML: a modeling language for spiking neurons VL - P-254 PB - Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) M1 - FZJ-2017-00733 T2 - Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) SP - 93-108 PY - 2016 AB - Biological nervous systems exhibit astonishing complexity. Neuroscientists aim to capture this complexityby modeling and simulation of biological processes. Often very complex models are necessaryto depict the processes, which makes it difficult to create these models. Powerful tools arethus necessary, which enable neuroscientists to express models in a comprehensive and concise wayand generate efficient code for digital simulations. Several modeling languages for computationalneuroscience have been proposed [Gl10, Ra11]. However, as these languages seek simulator independencethey typically only support a subset of the features desired by the modeler. In this article,we present the modular and extensible domain specific language NESTML, which provides neurosciencedomain concepts as first-class language constructs and supports domain experts in creatingneuron models for the neural simulation tool NEST. NESTML and a set of example models arepublically available on GitHub. T2 - Modellierung 2016 CY - 17 Mar 2016 - 19 Mar 2016, Karlsruhe (Germany) Y2 - 17 Mar 2016 - 19 Mar 2016 M2 - Karlsruhe, Germany LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)8 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)7 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/826510 ER -