In the last decade, bio-inspired self-organising mechanisms have been applied to different
domains, achieving results beyond traditional approaches. However, researchers usually …

Aggregate computing is an emerging approach to the engineering of complex coordination
for distributed systems, based on viewing system interactions in terms of information …

As the number of computing devices embedded into engineered systems continues to rise,
there is a widening gap between the needs of the user to control aggregates of devices and …

In this paper we address the engineering of complex and emerging computational systems
featuring situatedness, adaptivity and self-organisation, like pervasive computing …

The notion of a computational field has been proposed as a unifying abstraction for
develo** distributed systems, focusing on the computations and coordination of …

The complexity of large-scale distributed systems, particularly when deployed in physical
space, calls for new mechanisms to address composability and reusability of collective …

The advent of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm has brought opportunities to solve many
real-world problems. Energy management, for example, has attracted huge interest from …

In this position paper we present a conceptual vision of adaptation, a key feature of
autonomic systems. We put some stress on the role of control data and argue how some of …

Pervasive computing systems can be modelled effectively as populations of interacting
autonomous components. The key challenge to realizing such models is in getting …

Abstract The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) promises to bring many benefits, including
increased productivity, reduced costs, and increased safety to new generation …