Collectiveness is an important property of many systems—both natural and artificial. By
exploiting a large number of individuals, it is often possible to produce effects that go far …

Distributed collective systems are systems formed by homogeneous dynamic collections of
devices acting in a shared environment to pursue a joint task or goal. Typical applications …

The edge–cloud continuum provides a heterogeneous, multi-scale, and dynamic
infrastructure supporting complex deployment profiles and trade-offs for application …

Macro-programming enables the definition of highly distributed applications as a single
“macro-program”, providing first-class abstractions to describe and reason about global …

Engineering self-organising systems–eg, robot swarms, collectives of wearables, or
distributed infrastructures–has been investigated and addressed through various kinds of …

Abstract The Internet of Things promotes a view of large-scale deployments of devices able
to compute, communicate, and interact with their surrounding environment. In this context …

Massive deployments of devices across all kinds of environments pose the need for
engineering their collaborative, macro-level behaviour. To address this challenge, so-called …

Cyber-physical collectives (CPCs) are systems consisting of groups of interactive
computational devices situated in physical space. Their emergence is fostered by recent …

Today's distributed and pervasive computing addresses large-scale cyber-physical
ecosystems, characterised by dense and large networks of devices capable of computation …

Software engineers of Internet of Things (IoT) systems deal with three macro issues: how to
perceive the properties of interest through sensors (sensing facet), how to process …