eprintid: 2496 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 6 dir: disk0/00/00/24/96 datestamp: 2015-01-16 08:52:19 lastmod: 2015-01-16 08:52:19 status_changed: 2015-01-16 08:52:19 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Bucchiarone, Antonio creators_name: Marconi, Annapaola creators_name: Mezzina, Claudio Antares creators_name: Pistore, Marco creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: claudio.mezzina@imtlucca.it creators_id: title: A conceptual framework for collective adaptive systems ispublished: pub subjects: QA75 divisions: CSA full_text_status: none abstract: 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 date: 2013 date_type: published publisher: ACM pagerange: 1935-1936 id_number: doi:10.1145/2480362.2480720 refereed: TRUE isbn: 978-1-4503-1656-9 book_title: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - SAC '13 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480720 citation: 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)