Macroprogramming refers to the theory and practice of expressing the macro (scopic)
behaviour of a collective system using a single program. Macroprogramming approaches …

Generally, phenomena of spontaneous pattern formation are random and repetitive,
whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design. Yet, biological …

We deployed 72 sensors of 10 modalities in 15 wireless and wired networked sensor
systems in the environment, in objects, and on the body to create a sensor-rich environment …

Imagine a discipline of cellular engineering that tailor-makes biological cells to function as
sensors and actuators, as programmable delivery vehicles for pharmaceuticals, or as …

Supported by current socio-scientific trends, programming the global behaviour of whole
computational collectives makes for great opportunities, but also significant challenges …

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

Pervasive and mobile computing call for suitable middleware and programming models to
support the activities of complex software systems in dynamic network environments. In this …

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

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 …

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