relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2496/ title: A conceptual framework for collective adaptive systems creator: Bucchiarone, Antonio creator: Marconi, Annapaola creator: Mezzina, Claudio Antares creator: Pistore, Marco subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science description: In this paper we propose a conceptual framework to characterize Collective Adaptive Systems. By following the separation of concerns we represent these systems as a composition of three components: execution, context and adaptation, and we give a formal definition of all their concepts, defining their corresponding semantics and pointing out the interactions among them. Moreover, we formalize also the main properties that these systems should have, abstracting from any precise specification language or model publisher: ACM date: 2013 type: Book Section type: PeerReviewed identifier: Bucchiarone, Antonio and Marconi, Annapaola and Mezzina, Claudio Antares and Pistore, Marco A conceptual framework for collective adaptive systems. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - SAC '13. ACM, pp. 1935-1936. ISBN 978-1-4503-1656-9 (2013) relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480720 relation: doi:10.1145/2480362.2480720