New aggregate programming survey!

Just out, a new survey entitled "From distributed coordination to field calculus and aggregate

computing", which surveys aggregate programming work by my collaborators and myself. This paper expands on a conference version published last year, and gives a nice overview of how all of the different pieces of our work in this area fit together.

How the past, present, and future fit together in our view of aggregate programming.

One of this nice things about this survey was that we also were able to spend some time tracing out the roots of this work in the past, including a something that I really like: a diagram of all the key different traces of past work coming together to form aggregate computing (not the one above, but something much more complicated).  We also spent half a dozen pages laying out our view on key problems to be addressed and the likely roadmap for near-term progress in the area. If you're interested in either making use of this work or getting involved in research in this area yourself, this paper is a great place to start reading!