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Tools for Ensemble Design and Runtime

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Software Engineering for Collective Autonomic Systems

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The ASCENS project deals with designing systems as ensembles of adaptive components. Among the outputs of the ASCENS project are multiple tools that address particular issues in designing the ensembles, ranging from support for early stage formal modeling to runtime environment for executing and monitoring ensemble implementations. The goal of this chapter is to provide a compact description of the individual tools, which is supplemented by additional downloadable material on the project website.

This research was supported by the European project IP 257414 (ASCENS).

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  1. MFF, Charles University, Czech Republic

    Vojtěch Horký, Jaroslav Keznikl, Jan Kofroň & Petr Tůma

  2. FOKUS, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Germany

    Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama

  3. SySMA, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy

    Alberto Lluch Lafuente & Andrea Vandin

  4. PST, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

    Philip Mayer

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    Michele Loreti & Andrea Margheri

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    Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama

  7. DI, Università di Pisa, Italy

    Valentina Monreale & Ugo Montanari

  8. IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

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  9. LERO, University of Limerick, Ireland

    Emil Vassev

  10. DCS, VERIMAG Laboratory, France

    Jacques Combaz

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Abeywickrama, D.B. et al. (2015). Tools for Ensemble Design and Runtime. In: Wirsing, M., Hölzl, M., Koch, N., Mayer, P. (eds) Software Engineering for Collective Autonomic Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8998. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16310-9_13

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