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

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 …

Collective adaptive systems are an emerging class of networked computational systems
particularly suited for application domains such as smart cities, complex sensor networks …

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

In software engineering, knowledge about recurrent problems, along with blueprints of
associated solutions for diverse design contexts, are often captured in so-called design …

Agent-based modeling and simulation tools provide a mature platform for development of
complex simulations. They however, have not been applied much in the domain of …

Recent trends in pervasive computing promote the vision of Collective Adaptive Systems
(CASs): large-scale collections of relatively simple agents that act and coordinate with no …

Aggregate Computing is a macro-level approach for programming collective intelligence
and self-organisation in distributed systems. In this paradigm, system behaviour unfolds as a …

Programmability is an increasingly important barrier to the deployment of multi-robot
systems, as no prior approach allows routine composition and reuse of general aggregate …