This project aims at investigating and exploring an unconventional approach, based on chemical computing, to program complex computing infrastructures, such as Grids and real-time deeply-embedded systems. Chemical computing uses the chemical reaction metaphor to express the coordination of computations. This metaphor describes computation in terms of a chemical solution in which molecules (representing data) interact freely according to reaction rules. Chemical solutions are represented by multisets (data-structure that allows several occurrences of the same element). Computation proceeds by rewritings, which consume and produce new elements according to conditions and transformation rules.
Meetings
Kick-off meeting (INRIA Rocquencourt - February 12, 2008)