State of the Art in Cooperating Objects Research

This chapter provides an overview of the State of the Art in Cooperating Object research and, thus, serves as basis for subsequent examinations of the research gaps. Although it tries to give a broad overview of Cooperating Object research it does not cover aspects that seem to be solved from the point of view of academic or industrial research. Having this in mind, we present the State of the Art in hardware, algorithms, non-functional properties, systems and other aspects of Cooperating Objects.