The Internet of Things and edge computing are fostering a future of ecosystems

hosting complex decentralized computations, deeply integrated with our very dynamic

environments. Digitalized buildings, communities of people, and cities will be the

next-generation “hardware and platform”, counting myriads of interconnected devices, on top of

which intrinsically-distributed computational processes will run and self-organize. They will

spontaneously spawn, diffuse to pertinent logical/physical regions, cooperate and compete,