%0 Journal Article 
%F BFR07-IJUC
%A Banātre, Jean-Pierre
%A Fradet, Pascal
%A Radenac, Yann
%T Programming Self-Organizing Systems with the Higher-Order Chemical Language
%J International Journal of Unconventional Computing
%B The Grand Challenge in Non-Classical Computation
%V 	 3
%N 3
%P 161-177
%X In a chemical language, computation is viewed as abstract molecules reacting in an abstract chemical solution. Data can be seen as molecules and operations as chemical reactions: if some molecules satisfy a reaction condition, they are replaced by the result of the reaction. When no reaction is possible within the solution, a normal form is reached and the program terminates. In this article, we introduce HOCL, the Higher-Order Chemical Language, where reaction rules are also considered as molecules. We illustrate the application of HOCL to the specification of self-organizing systems. We describe two case studies: an autonomic mail system and the coordination of an image-processing pipeline on a grid
%D 2007
%K chemical programming
%K  higher-order conditional multiset rewriting
%K  autonomic systems
%K  self-organization
%K  self-protection
%K  self-healing
%K  self-optimization