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Software-intensive cyber-physical systems have to deal with massive numbers of components, featuring complex interactions among components and with humans and other systems. Often, they are designed to operate in open and non-deterministic environments, and to dynamically adapt to new requirements, technologies and external conditions. This class of systems has been named ensembles and new engineering techniques are needed to address the challenges of developing, integrating, and deploying them. In the paper, we briefly introduce SCEL (Software Component Ensemble Language), a kernel language that takes a holistic approach to programming autonomic computing systems and aims at providing programmers with a complete set of linguistic abstractions for programming the behavior of autonomic components and the formation of autonomic components ensembles, and for controlling the interaction among different components.
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As evident from the list of the papers mentioned in the bibliography below, design, implementation and exploitation of SCEL has been a collective effort. I would like to thank all involved colleagues for their fundamental contributions. I take the occasion to thank also Ivan Lanese and Eric Madelaine for giving me the possibility of presenting our work at the FACS conference and in the proceedings.
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De Nicola, R. (2015). A Formal Approach to Autonomic Systems Programming: The SCEL Language. In: Lanese, I., Madelaine, E. (eds) Formal Aspects of Component Software. FACS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8997. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15317-9_2
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