Consolidating the GroIMP plant modelling platform - documentation, user-interface update, parallelization

GroIMP代表“Growth-grammar related Interactive Modeling Platform”，用于模拟结构明确、基于生理的植被生长和发育场景。因此，它是一个指定和运行功能结构工厂模型（FSPM）的平台，也称为“虚拟工厂”。它采用了基于规则的语言XL（扩展L系统语言），这是Java的扩展，使并行图形语法的执行。属性图是用于植物结构和功能的数据结构。该软件的核心是由Ole Eschemeyer在2008年实施的。从那时起，它已被用于几个国际项目，但使用是有限的，缺少文档，用户界面不符合现行标准，并缺乏一些接口和分布式和并行计算，这将是必要的做更大的工厂组的模拟。软件应在这些方面得到增强，并应建立用户和开发人员委员会，以确保项目完成后软件的可持续进一步开发。然后，委员会将与申请人所在部门的系统管理员合作。

GroIMP stands for "Growth-grammar related Interactive Modelling Platform" and serves for simulating scenarios of structurally-explicit, physiology-based vegetation growth and develop-ment. Thus, it is a platform for specifying and running functional-structural plant models (FSPMs), also called "virtual plants". It employs the rule-based language XL (eXtended L-system language) which is an extension of Java and enables the execution of parallel graph grammars. Attributed graphs are the used data structures for plant architecture and function. The core of the software was implemented by Ole Kniemeyer in 2008. Since then it has been used in several international projects, but usage is limited by a missing documentation, a user interface which does not adhere to current standards, and some lack of interfacing and of distributed and parallel computing, which would be necessary to do simulations of larger groups of plants. The software shall be enhanced in these points, and a user-and-developer board shall be founded to ensure a sustainable further development of the software also after the project has finished. The board will then cooperate with the system administrator of the applicant's department.