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

High-speed railways with high load capacity and long-term performance have been
developed by the aid of high-performance construction materials for foundation treatments …

In software engineering, knowledge about recurrent problems, along with blueprints of
associated solutions for diverse design contexts, are often captured in so-called design …

Supported by current socio-scientific trends, programming the global behaviour of whole
computational collectives makes for great opportunities, but also significant challenges …

Emerging cyber-physical systems, such as robot swarms, crowds of augmented people, and
smart cities, require well-crafted self-organizing behavior to properly deal with dynamic …

Collective adaptive systems are challenging from the engineering perspective. Different
approaches aim at taming these systems either by specifying the behaviour …

Abstract Design patterns are key in software engineering, for they capture the knowledge of
recurrent problems and associated solutions in specific design contexts. Emerging …

We focus on the online multi-object k-coverage problem (OMOkC), where mobile robots are
required to sense a mobile target from k diverse points of view, coordinating themselves in a …

IoT provides an environment which enables access to a plethora of different services. In
order to reach these services, devices need to decide if the providers are trustable or not …

Novel scenarios like IoT and smart cities promote a vision of computational ecosystems
whereby heterogeneous collectives of humans, devices and computing infrastructure …