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{{Short description|Programming paradigm to program distributed systems with a single program by a global perspective.}}

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In [[computer science]], '''macroprogramming''' is a [[programming paradigm]]

aimed at expressing the macroscopic, global behaviour of an entire system of agents or computing devices.<ref name="Casadei 2023">{{cite journal | last=Casadei | first=Roberto | title=Macroprogramming: Concepts, State of the Art, and Opportunities of Macroscopic Behaviour Modelling | journal=ACM Computing Surveys | publisher=Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | date=2023-01-11 | volume=55 | issue=13s | pages=1–37 | issn=0360-0300 | doi=10.1145/3579353 | s2cid=245837830 | arxiv=2201.03473 }}</ref>

In macroprogramming, the local programs for the individual components of a [[distributed system]] are compiled or interpreted from a ''macro-program'' typically expressed by a system-level perspective or in terms of the intended global goal.<ref name="Casadei 2023" />

The aim of macroprogramming approaches is to support expressing the macroscopic interactive behaviour of a whole distributed system of computing devices or [[software agent|agents]] in a single program, or, similarly, to promote their [[collective intelligence]].<ref name="CI 2023">{{cite journal | last=Casadei | first=Roberto | title=Artificial Collective Intelligence Engineering: A Survey of Concepts and Perspectives | journal=Artificial Life | publisher=MIT Press | date=2023-11-01 | volume=29 | issue=4 | pages=433–467 | issn=0360-0300 | doi=10.1162/artl_a_00408 | arxiv=2304.05147 }}</ref>

It hasis not to be confused with [[Macro (computer science)|macros]], the mechanism often found in programming languages (like [[C (programming language)|C]] or [[Scala (programming language)|Scala]]) to express substitution rules for program pieces.

Macroprogramming originated in the context of [[wireless sensor network]] programming<ref name="Newton Welsh 2004 p. ">{{cite conference | last1=Newton | first1=Ryan | last2=Welsh | first2=Matt | title=Proceeedings of the 1st international workshop on Data management for sensor networks in conjunction with VLDB 2004 - DMSN '04 | chapter=Region streams | publisher=ACM Press | publication-place=New York, New York, USA | year=2004 | doi=10.1145/1052199.1052213 | page=78}}</ref><ref name="Newton Morrisett Welsh 2007 p. ">{{cite conference | last1=Newton | first1=Ryan | last2=Morrisett | first2=Greg | last3=Welsh | first3=Matt | title=Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks - IPSN '07 | chapter=The regiment macroprogramming system | publisher=ACM Press | publication-place=New York, New York, USA | year=2007 | doi=10.1145/1236360.1236422 | page=489| isbn=978-1-59593-638-7 }}</ref><ref name="Gummadi Gnawali Govindan 2005 pp. 126–140">{{cite book | last1=Gummadi | first1=Ramakrishna | last2=Gnawali | first2=Omprakash | last3=Govindan | first3=Ramesh | title=Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems | chapter=Macro-programming Wireless Sensor Networks Using Kairos | publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg | publication-place=Berlin, Heidelberg | year=2005 | isbn=978-3-540-26422-4 | issn=0302-9743 | doi=10.1007/11502593_12 | pages=126–140}}</ref>

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