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MGS and Spatial Computing

Companion webpage for MGS tutorial at UCNC'2012

Plan of the Lectures & Tutorial Slides

Lecture I (Tuesday, September 4)

  1. Outlines, Motivation & Application domains
    1. Modelling Morphogenesis
    2. (DS)2: dynamical systems with a dynamical structure
  2. MGS
    1. Collection
    2. Transformation
    3. A Functional Language
  3. Applications
    1. Algorithmic Examples
    2. 1D Collections
    3. GBF
    4. Delaunay

Lecture II (Wednesday, September 5)

  1. Motivations & Application domains
    1. Spatial Computing
    2. Interaction Based Computing
  2. MGS & Applications
    1. MGS Formalism
    2. Patch transformation (application: remeshing)
    3. Discrete differential operator (application: a generic diffusion operator)
    4. An integrative example: growing a T shape

Lecture III (Thursday, September 6)

  1. (Motivation & Application domains)
  2. MGS
    1. Rule Application Strategies & Model of Computation in MGS
    2. Stochastic Strategies (e.g. Gillespie)
  3. Applications on Abstract (e.g. non physical) Space
    1. Self-Assembly of Musical Spaces
    2. Growing an Ontology with the Little Riding Hood
    3. Growing an Analogy with Paul Ricœur
    4. Programming unconventional models
  4. Implementation
    1. Generic pattern matching
    2. Incremental HOAS implementation of a DSL
    3. Beyond algebraic data type : a Generic Advanced API for Containers
  5. Current Frontiers
    1. From Global to Local
    2. Synthetic Biology
    3. Multi-level and partial processes
    4. Hybrid Modelling
    5. Time

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