Session details: CASM - collective adaptive system and middleware track

Nowadays, most aspects of our daily life are affected by pervasive technology, referred to as Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS), consisting of massive numbers of heterogeneous units/nodes, complex interactions, and humans-in-the-loop. These systems have to be equipped with dynamic and autonomous adaptation capabilities, to deal with changes in their working environments and within themselves. The development of CAS is closely related to the area of production-level enterprise applications, with a special interest in the development, design, maintenance, scalability and other software quality attributes of Middleware. The Special Track on Collective Adaptive Systems and Middleware takes deliberately a broad view of what CAS and related middleware are and how they should be designed, analysed, built and deployed. In particular, we welcomed papers both in the foundational view (e.g., theories, methods, formalisms, models) and the practical aspects (e.g., development methodologies, programming languages, development and runtime environments, tools).