2012/02/24 by Jacob Beal, Beal, Jacob, Stefan Dulman +7
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Engineering · #D.1.3 #D.3 #Distributed #Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence #Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) #Parallel #Programming Languages (cs.PL) #Scientific Computing and Data Management #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC) #cs.DC #cs.MA #cs.PL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1202.5509
60 pages; Review chapter to appear as a chapter in book "Formal and Practical Aspects of Domain-Specific Languages: Recent Developments"
openalex publication_date 2012/02/24 · arxiv created 2012/04/03 · arxiv updated 2012/04/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
As the number of computing devices embedded into engineered systems continues to rise, there is a widening gap between the needs of the user to control aggregates of devices and the complex technology of individual devices. Spatial computing attempts to bridge this gap for systems with local communication by exploiting the connection between physical locality and device connectivity. A large number of spatial computing domain specific languages (DSLs) have emerged across diverse domains, from biology and reconfigurable computing, to sensor networks and agent-based systems. In this chapter, we develop a framework for analyzing and comparing spatial computing DSLs, survey the current state of the art, and provide a roadmap for future spatial computing DSL investigation.