A programming language for Developing APPs of Insect Intelligent Building

To support the development of applications in a novel decentralized computing structure, i.e., Insect Intelligent Building (I
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B) platform, the key enabler is to design a proper programming language for specific domains. Existing researches are either unwieldy or unfriendly for developing the domain-oriented applications. This paper aims to facilitate the development of such applications and reduces the programming difficulty of programmers. We propose Touch, a textual programming language for I
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B APPs(applications), which provides a high-level abstraction of I
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B elements. Specifically, we establish the programming conceptual architecture (i.e., Individual, Neighborhood, and Domain ) and programming mechanism of I
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B APP. Moreover, the specific language elements and formal syntax of Touch are designed. Evaluation results show that Touch can effectively support the development of I
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B APP and greatly reduce the size of the program.