Empowering Collections with Swarm Behavior
Adrian Kuhn, David Erni, Marcus Denker · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2010
Often, when modelling a system there are properties and operations that are related to a group of objects rather than to a single object. In this paper we extend Java with Swarm Behavior, a new composition operator that associates behavior with a collection of instances. The lookup resolution of swarm behavior is based on the element type of a collection and is thus orthogonal to the collection hierarchy.