TY  - RPRT
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08560
PB  - arXiv
EP  - 16
AV  - none
M1  - working_paper
ID  - eprints3564
A1  - Bortolussi, Luca
A1  - De Nicola, Rocco
A1  - Galpin, Vashti
A1  - Gilmore, Stephen
A1  - Hillstone, Jane
A1  - Latella, Diego
A1  - Loreti, Michele
A1  - Massink, Mieke
N2  - In this paper we present CARMA, a language recently defined to support specification and analysis of collective adaptive systems. CARMA is a stochastic process algebra equipped with linguistic constructs specifically developed for modelling and programming systems that can operate in open-ended and unpredictable environments. This class of systems is typically composed of a huge number of interacting agents that dynamically adjust and combine their behaviour to achieve specific goals. A CARMA model, termed a collective, consists of a set of components, each of which exhibits a set of attributes. To model dynamic aggregations, which are sometimes referred to as ensembles, CARMA provides communication primitives that are based on predicates over the exhibited attributes. These predicates are used to select the participants in a communication. Two communication mechanisms are provided in the CARMA language: multicast-based and unicast-based. In this paper, we first introduce the basic principles of CARMA and then we show how our language can be used to support specification with a simple but illustrative example of a socio-technical collective adaptive system.
N1  - SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84958068481
VL  - arXiv:1509.08560
TI  - CARMA: Collective Adaptive Resource-sharing Markovian Agents
Y1  - 2015///
ER  -