Programming Model Elements for Hybrid Collaborative Adaptive Systems

Abstract

Abstract-Hybrid Diversity-aware Collective Adaptive Systems (HDA-CAS) is a new generation of socio-technical systems where both humans and machine peers complement each other and operate collectively to achieve their goals. These systems are characterized by the fundamental properties of hybridity and collectiveness, hiding from users the complexities associated with managing the collaboration and coordination of hybrid human/-machine teams. In this paper we present the key programming elements of the SmartSociety HDA-CAS platform. We first describe the overall platform's architecture and functionality and then present concrete programming model elements -Collective-based Tasks (CBTs) and Collectives, describe their properties and show how they meet the hybridity and collectiveness requirements. We also describe the associated Java language constructs, and show how concrete use-cases can be encoded with the introduced constructs.

A Programming Model for Hybrid Collaborative Adaptive Systems

“…The paper describes how the presented programming framework design tackles the fundamental HDA-CAS novelty requirements and showcases how the introduced language constructs can be used to encode and execute hybrid collaborations on the SmartSociety platform. In the previous version of this paper [7] we presented the main concepts of a programming model for HDA-CASs. The major additions with respect to the previous work are: (i) the description of a complete implementation of the presented model into an actual, working framework; (ii) the contrivance and implementation of a set of demonstrative examples highlighting the main functionalities and how they can be used to design and manage HDA-CASs; and (iii) an evaluation of the framework's ability to effectively support application developers in programming collective tasks.…”