Treffer: Programming an amorphous computational medium

Title:
Programming an amorphous computational medium
Authors:
Source:
UPP 2004 : unconventional programming paradigms (15-17 September 2004, Mont Saint Michel, revised selected & invited papers)Lecture notes in computer science. :121-136
Publisher Information:
Berlin: Springer, 2005.
Publication Year:
2005
Physical Description:
print, 32 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Document Type:
Konferenz Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139, United States
ISSN:
0302-9743
Rights:
Copyright 2005 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Computer science; theoretical automation; systems
Accession Number:
edscal.17134357
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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Amorphous computing considers the problem of controlling millions of spatially distributed unreliable devices which communicate only with nearby neighbors. To program such a system, we need a high-level description language for desired global behaviors, and a system to compile such descriptions into locally executing code which robustly creates and maintains the desired global behavior. I survey existing amorphous computing primitives and give desiderata for a language describing computation on an amorphous computer. I then bring these together in Amorphous Medium Language, which computes on an amorphous computer as though it were a space-filling computational medium.