On Context-Orientation in Aggregate Programming

Context-awareness plays a central role in self-adaptive software. By a programming perspective, context is often used implicitly, and context-aware code is fragmented in the codebase. In Context-Oriented Programming, instead, context is considered a first-class citizen and is explicitly used to modu...

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Published in:	2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self Systems (FASW) pp. 92 - 97
Main Authors:	Casadei, Roberto, Pianini, Danilo, Salvaneschi, Guido, Viroli, Mirko
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 01.06.2019
Subjects:	aggregate programming collective adaptive systems context-aware systems context-oriented programming
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Summary:	Context-awareness plays a central role in self-adaptive software. By a programming perspective, context is often used implicitly, and context-aware code is fragmented in the codebase. In Context-Oriented Programming, instead, context is considered a first-class citizen and is explicitly used to modularise context-sensitive functionality and behavioural variability. In this paper, we reflect on the role of context in collective adaptive systems, by a discussion from the special perspective of a macro paradigm, Aggregate Programming, which supports the specification of collective behaviour by a global perspective through functional compositions of field computations. In particular, we consider the abstractions exposed in Context-Oriented and Aggregate Programming, suggest potential synergies in both directions, and accordingly take the first steps towards a combined design.
DOI:	10.1109/FAS-W.2019.00035