Programming an amorphous computational medium (2004)
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| Venue: | In Unconventional Programming Paradigms International Workshop |
| Citations: | 9 - 7 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Beal04programmingan,
author = {Jacob Beal},
title = {Programming an amorphous computational medium},
booktitle = {In Unconventional Programming Paradigms International Workshop},
year = {2004},
pages = {121--136},
publisher = {Springer}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. 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 highlevel 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. 1







