| dc.contributor.advisor | Gerald Sussman | |
| dc.contributor.author | Beal, Jacob | |
| dc.contributor.other | Mathematics and Computation | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-06-01T16:22:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-06-01T16:22:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004-09 | |
| dc.identifier.other | MIT-CSAIL-TR-2006-039 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32985 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Amorphous computing considers the problem of controllingmillions of spatially distributed unreliable devices which communicateonly with nearby neighbors. To program such a system, we need a highleveldescription language for desired global behaviors, and a system tocompile such descriptions into locally executing code which robustly createsand maintains the desired global behavior. I survey existing amorphouscomputing primitives and give desiderata for a language describingcomputation on an amorphous computer. I then bring these together inAmorphous Medium Language, which computes on an amorphous computeras though it were a space-filling computational medium. | |
| dc.format.extent | 16 p. | |
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| dc.format.extent | 386051 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/postscript | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | |
| dc.subject | distributed computing sensor networks | |
| dc.title | Programming an Amorphous Computational Medium | |
| dc.identifier.citation | J.-P. Banatre et al. (Eds.): UPP 2004, LNCS 3566, pp. 121–136, 2005.Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005 | |
