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Programming an Amorphous Computational Medium

dc.date.accessioned2006-06-01T16:22:22Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-24T10:24:53Z
dc.date.available2006-06-01T16:22:22Z
dc.date.available2018-11-24T10:24:53Z
dc.date.issued2004-09
dc.identifier.citationJ.-P. Banatre et al. (Eds.): UPP 2004, LNCS 3566, pp. 121Â 136, 2005.Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32985
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.aust.edu.ng/xmlui/handle/1721.1/32985
dc.description.abstractAmorphous computing considers the problem of controllingmillions of spatially distributed unreliable devices which communicateonly with nearby neighbors. To program such a system, we need a highleveldescription language for desired global behaviors, and a system tocompile such descriptions into locally executing code which robustly createsand maintains the desired global behavior. I survey existing amorphouscomputing primitives and give desiderata for a language describingcomputation on an amorphous computer. I then bring these together inAmorphous Medium Language, which computes on an amorphous computeras though it were a space-filling computational medium.
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectdistributed computing sensor networks
dc.titleProgramming an Amorphous Computational Medium


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