Nature-Inspired Coordination Models: Current Status and Future Trends. (6th February 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Omicini, Andrea
• Other Names: Liu X. Academic Editor.; Malaiya Y. Academic Editor.; Meringer M. Academic Editor.; Shen Z. Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: ISRN software engineering. Volume 2013(2013)
• Publication Date: 2013-02-06
• Subjects: Software engineering -- Periodicals; Software engineering; Periodicals; 005.1
• DOI: 10.1155/2013/384903
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2090-7672

Abstract

Abstract : 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 computational systems. Nature-inspired computing aims at understanding the mechanisms and patterns of complex natural systems in order to bring their most desirable features to computational systems. Thus, the promise of nature-inspired coordination models is to prove themselves fundamental in the design of complex computational systems|such as intelligent, knowledge-intensive, pervasive, adaptive, and self-organising ones. In this paper, we survey the most relevant nature-inspired coordination models in the literature, focussing in particular on tuple-based models, and foresee the most interesting research trends in the field.