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Virtualizing Communication for Hybrid and Diversity-Aware Collective Adaptive Systems

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Hybrid and Diversity-Aware Collective Adaptive Systems (HDA-CAS) form a broad class of highly distributed systems comprising a number of heterogeneous human-based and machine-based computing (service) units. These units collaborate in ad-hoc formed, dynamically-adaptive collectives. The flexibility of these collectives makes them suitable for processing elaborate tasks, but at the same time, building a system to support diverse communication types in such collectives is challenging. In this paper, we address the fundamental communication challenges for HDA-CAS. We present the design of a middleware for virtualizing communication within and among collectives of diverse types of service units. The middleware is able to handle numerous, intermittently available, human and software-based service units, and manages the notion of collectivity transparently to the programmer. A prototype implementation for validation purpose is also provided.

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This work is supported by the EU FP7 SmartSociety project under grant No 600854.

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  1. Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Philipp Zeppezauer, Ognjen Scekic, Hong-Linh Truong & Schahram Dustdar

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Zeppezauer, P., Scekic, O., Truong, HL., Dustdar, S. (2015). Virtualizing Communication for Hybrid and Diversity-Aware Collective Adaptive Systems. In: Toumani, F., et al. Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2014 Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8954. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22885-3_6

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