Aggregate Processes in Field Calculus


Roberto Casadei, Mirko Viroli, Giorgio Audrito, Danilo Pianini, Ferruccio Damiani

Hanne Riis Nielson, Emilio Tuosto (eds.)
Coordination Models and Languages, pages 200-217
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11533
Springer
2019

Engineering distributed applications and services in emerging and open computing scenarios like the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems and pervasive computing, calls for identifying proper abstractions to smoothly capture collective behaviour, adaptivity, and dynamic injection and execution of concurrent distributed activities. Accordingly, we introduce a notion of “aggregate process” as a concurrent field computation whose execution and interactions are sustained by a dynamic team of devices, and whose spatial region can opportunistically vary over time. We formalise this notion by extending the Field Calculus with a new primitive construct, spawn, used to instantiate a set of field computations and regulate key aspects of their life-cycle. By virtue of an open-source implementation in the ScaFi framework, we show basic programming examples and benefits via two case studies of mobile ad-hoc networks and drone swarm scenarios, evaluated by simulation.

(keywords) Aggregate processes, Computational fields, Distributed computing, Collective coordination, Dynamic ensembles, Self-* 

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Roberto Casadei, Mirko Viroli, Giorgio Audrito, Danilo Pianini, Ferruccio Damiani

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Hanne Riis Nielson, Emilio Tuosto

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2019

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Coordination Models and Languages

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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11533

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10.1007/978-3-030-22397-7_12

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21st IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, COORDINATION 2019, Held as Part of the 14th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2019, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, June 17-21, 2019, Proceedings

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