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Macroprogramming shares similar goals (related to programming a system by a global perspective) with [[multitier programming]], [[choreographic programming]], and [[aggregate computing]].
== Context and motivation ==
Programming [[distributed systems]], [[multi-agent systems]], and [[collectives]] of software agents (e.g., [[swarm robotics|robotic swarms]]) is difficult, for many issues (like communication, concurrency, and failure) have to be properly considered. In particular, a general recurrent problem is how to induce the intended global behaviour by defining the behaviour of the individual components or agents involved. The problem can be addressed through learning approaches, such as [[multi-agent reinforcement learning]], or by manually defining the control program driving each component. However, addressing the problem by a fully individual (or (single-node) perspective may be error-prone, because it is generally difficult to foresee the overall behaviour emerging from complex networks of activities and interactions (cf. [[complex systems]] and [[emergence]]. Therefore, researchers have started investigated ways to raise the abstraction level, promoting programming of distributed systems by a more global perspective or in terms of the overall goal to be collectively attained.
== Examples ==
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