2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)
DOI: 10.1109/wowmom.2015.7158188
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The world's computing infrastructure is increasingly differentiating into autonomous systems (e.g. Internet of Things installations, clouds, VANETs, …), which are then post-hoc composed to generate value-added functionality (" systems of systems "). Today, however, such system-of-systems composition is typically carried out in an ad-hoc and system-dependent manner, with obvious associated disadvantages. In this paper, we propose a generalised system-of-systems-oriented programming approach that enables systems to be composed by application experts without the need for systems-level knowledge, and also facilitates dynamic and spontaneous system composition, as systems discover each other opportunistic in their environment.