Coordination languages for tuple spaces can offer significant advantages in the specification and implementation of distributed systems, but often do require manual programming effort to ensure consistency. We propose an ...

We argue that compositional specification based on formal languages can facilitate the modelling of, and reasoning about, sophisticated collective behaviour in many natural systems. One defines a system in terms of individual ...

Reconfigurable interacting systems consist of a set of autonomous agents, with integrated interaction capabilities that feature opportunistic interaction. Agents seemingly reconfigure their interactions interfaces by forming ...

Sharp bisimulation is a refinement of branching bisimulation, parame terized by a subset of the system’s actions, called strong actions. This parameterization allows the sharp bisimulation to be tailored by the property ...

Collective adaptive systems may be broadly defined as en sembles of autonomous agents, whose interaction may lead to the emer gence of global features and patterns. Formal verification may provide strong guarantees about ...

We demonstrate a novel methodology that integrates intuitive modelling, simulation, and formal verification of collective behaviour in biological systems. To that end, we consider the case of a colony of foraging ants, ...

Autonomous multi-agent, or more generally, collective adaptive systems, use different modes of communication to support their autonomy and ease of interaction. In order to enable modelling and reasoning about such systems, ...