ScaFi: A Scala DSL and Toolkit for Aggregate Programming

Abstract

Supported by current socio-scientific trends, programming the global behaviour of whole computational collectives makes for great opportunities, but also significant challenges. Recently, aggregate computing has emerged as a prominent paradigm for so-called collective adaptive systems programming. To shorten the gap between such research endeavours and mainstream software development and engineering, we present ScaFi, a Scala toolkit providing an internal domain-specific language, libraries, a simulation environment, and runtime support for practical aggregate computing systems development.

Keywords

• Aggregate programming
• Computational fields
• Macro-level programming
• Distributed computing
• Scala toolkit