Infrastructure for engineered emergence on sensor/actuator networks

The use of amorphous-medium abstraction to decouple self-management problems in sensor/actuator network applications, is illustrated. For the spatial self-managing systems, the amorphous-medium abstraction separates the system's specification from its implementation. The new technique for abstraction captures the divide between specification and implementation and is a continuous computational material filling the space of interest. Every point in the medium is a computational device that independently executes the same code as every other device in the medium. The amorphous-medium abstraction separates the space being programmed from the devices carrying out the program and decomposes the self-managing systems.