TY - CHAP T2 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - SAC '13 TI - A conceptual framework for collective adaptive systems PB - ACM A1 - Bucchiarone, Antonio A1 - Marconi, Annapaola A1 - Mezzina, Claudio Antares A1 - Pistore, Marco SP - 1935 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480720 AV - none EP - 1936 Y1 - 2013/// SN - 978-1-4503-1656-9 N2 - 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 ID - eprints2496 ER -