Distributed Computing by Mobile Entities is concerned with the study of the computational and
complexity issues arising in systems of decentralized computational entities operating in a
spatial universe Encompassing and modeling a large variety of application environments and
systems from robotic swarms to networks of mobile sensors from software mobile agents in
communication networks to crawlers and viruses on the web the theoretical research in this
area intersects distributed computing with the fields of computational geometry (especially for
continuous spaces) control theory graph theory and combinatorics (especially for discrete
spaces). The research focus is on determining what tasks can be performed by the entities
under what conditions and at what cost. In particular the central question is to determine
what minimal hypotheses allow a given problem to be solved. This book is based on the lectures
and tutorial presented at the research meeting on Moving and Computing (mac) held at La
Maddalena Island in June 2017. Greatly expanded revised and updated each of the lectures
forms an individual Chapter. Together they provide a map of the current knowledge about the
boundaries of distributed computing by mobile entities.
