SCW 2014 - Spatial Computing Workshop

In the field of distributed systems, space plays various important roles, ranging from computational resource (e.g., parallelism) to the result of the computation itself (e.g., formation control or self-assembly). In multiagent-based systems, spatial relationships are often used to organize the interactions between agents and often their behaviors can be specified and analyzed relying on spatial notions like: location, neighborhood, diffusion, propagation, etc. The goal of the 7th Spatial Computing Workshop is to serve as an inclusive forum for the discussion of ongoing or completed work focusing on the theoretical and practical issues of explicitly using space in the design process of multiagent or multiactor systems. We invite researchers to explore spatial computing at different abstraction levels, ranging from relevant concepts and theories for the top-down specification of spatial applications, to suitable methodologies and tools, and novel spatial applications.