A new revolution known as Industry 4.0 is occurring where countless elements comprising
industrial systems are being interfaced with internet communication technologies to form the …

Smart cyber-physical systems (S-CPSs) are complex engineered systems empowered by
cyber-physical computing and equipped with the capability of reasoning, learning, adapting …

A concise and practical introduction to the foundations and engineering principles of self-
adaptation Though it has recently gained significant momentum, the topic of self-adaptation …

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

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

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

Programming distributed systems is notoriously hard due to–among the others–concurrency,
asynchronous execution, message loss, and device failures. Homogeneous distributed …

Abstract Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS) are heterogeneous collections of autonomous
task-oriented systems that cooperate on common goals forming a collective system. This …

Abstract SCEL (Service Component Ensemble Language) is a new language specifically
designed to rigorously model and program autonomic components and their interaction …

Swarm behaviour engineering is an area of research that seeks to investigate methods for
coordinating computation and action within groups of simple agents to achieve complex …