Scientific Material

Introduction to Distributed Systems

• Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Steven Tuecke. The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 15(3), August 2001
• Robert Grimm, Janet Davis, Eric Lemar, Adam Macbeth, Steven Swanson, Thomas Anderson, Brian Bershad, Gaetano Borriello, Steven Gribble, David Wetherall. System Support for Pervasive Applications. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 22(4), November 2004
• B. Clifford Neuman. Scale in Distributed Systems. Readings in Distributed Computing Systems, 1994

Software Architectures

• Ozalp Babaoglu, Márk Jelasity, Alberto Montresor, Christof Fetzer, Stefano Leonardi, Aad van Moorsel, Maarten van Steen (eds.). Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems: Conceptual and Practical Foundations. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3460, 2005
• Jeffrey O. Kephart, David M. Chess. The Vision of Autonomic Computing. IEEE Computer 36(1), January 2003
• Philip K. McKinley, Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Eric P. Kasten, Betty H.C. Cheng. Composing Adaptive Software. IEEE Computer 37(7), 2004

The Architecture of the World Wide Web

• Roy Thomas Fielding. Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures.
  * Roy Thomas Fielding, Richard N. Taylor. Principled Design of the Modern Web Architecture. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 2(2), May-June 2002

Processes in Distributed Systems

• Alfonso Fuggetta, Gian Pietro Picco, Giovanni Vigna. Understanding Code Mobility. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 24(5), May 1998
• Dejan S. Milojicic, Fred Douglis, Yves Paindaveine, Richard Wheeler, Songnian Zhou. Process Migration. ACM Computing Surveys 32(3), September 2000

Synchronisation

• Leslie Lamport. Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System. Communications of the ACM 21(7), 1978

Interaction & Coordination in Distributed Systems

• Farhad Arbab. Reo: A Channel-based Coordination Model for Component Composition. Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 14, 2004
• Farhad Arbab, Ivan Herman, Per Spilling. An Overview of Manifold and its Implementation. Concurrency: Practice and Experience 5(1), February 1993
• Rodney A. Brooks. Intelligence Without Reason. 12th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 1991), 1991
• Paolo Ciancarini. Coordination Models and Languages as Software Integrators. ACM Computing Surveys 28(2), June 1996
• Mehdi Dastani, Farhad Arbab, Frank S. de Boer. Coordination and Composition in Multi-agent Systems. 4rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2005), 25-29 July 2005
• Martin Fredriksson, Rune Gustavsson. Online Engineering and Open Computational Systems. Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems: The Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Handbook, Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organization 11, 2004
• David Gelernter. Generative Communication in Linda. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 7(1), January 1985
• David Gelernter, Nicholas Carriero. Coordination Languages and Their Significance. Communications of the ACM 35(2), 1992
• Dina Q. Goldin, Scott A. Smolka, Peter Wegner (eds.). Interactive Computation: The New Paradigm.
  * Anne-Alexandra Holzbacher. A Software Environment for Concurrent Coordinated Programming. Coordination Languages and Models, LNCS 1061, 1996
• David C. Luckham, John J. Kenney, Larry M. Augustin, James Vera, Doug Bryan, Walter Mann. Specification and Analysis of System Architecture Using Rapide. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 21(4), April 1995
• Robin Milner. Elements of Interaction: Turing Award Lecture. Communications of the ACM 36(1), January 1993
• Andrea Omicini. Agents Writing on Walls: Cognitive Stigmergy and Beyond. The Goals of Cognition. Festschrift for Cristiano Castelfranchi, Tributes 20, December 2012
• George A. Papadopoulos, Farhad Arbab. Coordination Models and Languages. The Engineering of Large Systems, Advances in Computers 46, 1998
• Peter Wegner. Why Interaction Is More Powerful Than Algorithms. Communications of the ACM 40(5), May 1997
• Peter Wegner, Dina Goldin. Computation Beyond Turing Machines. Communications of the ACM 46(4), April 2003

Tuple-based Coordination of Distributed Systems

• Mehdi Dastani, Farhad Arbab, Frank S. de Boer. Coordination and Composition in Multi-agent Systems. 4rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2005), 25-29 July 2005
• Edsger Wybe Dijkstra. Co-operating Sequential Processes. The Origin of Concurrent Programming: From Semaphores to Remote Procedure Calls, 2002
• Andrea Omicini, Enrico Denti. From Tuple Spaces to Tuple Centres. Science of Computer Programming 41(3), November 2001

Tuple-based Coordination of Situated Systems

• Matthias Baldauf, Schahram Dustdar, Florian Rosenberg. A Survey on Context-Aware Systems. International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing 2(4), 2007
• Jacob Beal. A Basis Set of Operators for Space-Time Computations. Proceedings of the 2010 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshop (SASOW 2010), 2010
• Matteo Casadei, Andrea Omicini. Situated Tuple Centres in ReSpecT. 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009), 8-12 March 2009
• Andrea Omicini. Towards a Notion of Agent Coordination Context. Process Coordination and Ubiquitous Computing, October 2002
• Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli. Time-Aware Coordination in ReSpecT. Coordination Models and Languages, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3454, April 2005
• Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli. Timed Environment for Web Agents. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems 5(2), August 2007
• Lucy A. Suchman. Situated Actions. Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication, 1987
• Danny Weyns, Andrea Omicini, James J. Odell. Environment as a First Class Abstraction in Multi-Agent Systems. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 14(1), February 2007
• Franco Zambonelli, Gabriella Castelli, Laura Ferrari, Marco Mamei, Alberto Rosi, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Matteo Risoldi, Akla-Esso Tchao, Simon Dobson, Graeme Stevenson, Yuan Ye, Elena Nardini, Andrea Omicini, Sara Montagna, Mirko Viroli, Alois Ferscha, Sascha Maschek, Bernhard Wally. Self-aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems. Proceedings of the 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (FET 11), Procedia Computer Science 7, 4-6 May 2011