The use of computational techniques increasingly permeates developmental biology, from
the acquisition, processing and analysis of experimental data to the construction of models …

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

As the number of computing devices embedded into engineered systems continues to rise,
there is a widening gap between the needs of the user to control aggregates of devices and …

Collective adaptive systems are an emerging class of networked computational systems
particularly suited for application domains such as smart cities, complex sensor networks …

The complexity of large-scale distributed systems, particularly when deployed in physical
space, calls for new mechanisms to address composability and reusability of collective …

Computation increasingly takes place not on an individual device, but distributed throughout
a material or environment, whether it be a silicon surface, a network of wireless devices, a …

Abstract The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) promises to bring many benefits, including
increased productivity, reduced costs, and increased safety to new generation …

With the constant increase in the number of interconnected devices in today networks, and
the high demand of adaptiveness, more and more computations can be designed according …

A key problem when coordinating the behaviour of spatially situated networks, like those
typically found in the Internet of Things (IoT), is adaptation to changes impacting network …

Since their inception in 1968, L-systems have become a key conceptual, mathematical and
software tool for modeling plant development at different levels of plant organization …