Context: In this study we report on a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) for Domain-Specific
Languages (DSLs), based on an automatic search including primary studies from journals …

Generally, phenomena of spontaneous pattern formation are random and repetitive,
whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design. Yet, biological …

Through field calculus constructs and building-block APIs, aggregate programming could
help unlock the IoT's true potential by allowing complex distributed services to be specified …

Neuro-evolution is an appealing approach to generating collective behaviors for robot
swarms. In its typical application, known as off-line automatic design, the neural networks …

We present Buzz, a novel programming language for heterogeneous robot swarms. Buzz
advocates a compositional approach, offering primitives to define swarm behaviors both …

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

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

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

Designing collective behaviors for robot swarms is a difficult endeavor due to their fully
distributed, highly redundant, and ever-changing nature. To overcome the challenge, a few …

The notion of a computational field has been proposed as a unifying abstraction for
developing distributed systems, focusing on the computations and coordination of …