Ambient-Oriented Programming

TOTAM is a communication abstraction to enable pervasive social interactivity: it make possible that flockrs can communicate with each other without being connected at the same time while maintaining privacy and limited network traffic. The basic communications API of the framework provides means to address and communicate with individual flockrs by means of remote objects references. However, communicating with a large amount of flockrs in this fashion does not scale (as it would require to manually manage a group of remote references whose composition change often). Instead, we have designed a dedicated communication abstraction for flock communication called TOTAM.