One of the objectives in the field of artificial intelligence for some decades has been the
development of artificial agents capable of coexisting in harmony with people and other …

Recent works in the context of large-scale adaptive systems, such as those based on
opportunistic IoT-based applications, promote aggregate programming, a development …

Coordination models and languages are meant to provide abstractions and mechanisms to
harness the space of interaction as one of the foremost sources of complexity in …

The role of smart and autonomous systems is becoming vital in many areas of industry and
society. Expectations from such systems continuously rise and become more ambitious: long …

We present a vision of distributed system coordination as a set of activities affecting the
space-time fabric of interaction events. In the tuple space setting that we consider …

We are increasingly seeing computer systems which are expected to function without
operator intervention. This is perhaps acceptable for running computer networks or traffic …

A number of recent works have investigated the notion of “computational fields” as a means
of coordinating systems in distributed, dense and dynamic environments such as pervasive …

Pervasive service ecosystems are a new paradigm for the design of context-aware systems
featuring adaptivity and self-awareness. A theoretical and practical framework has been …

The chemical-inspired programming approach is an emerging paradigm for defining the
behavior of densely distributed and context-aware devices (eg, in ecosystems of displays …

The complexity of pervasive computing systems is rapidly increasing, and this calls for
service models and coordination approaches intrinsically manifesting self-organisation of …