Deployment and execution of sensing and computational tasks in a network of computing devices

A computer program product for deployment and execution of tasks in a network of computing devices, the computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:
• creating by a requester device of a task for deployment and execution in the network wherein the task is composed of a set of computing and sensing programs and a task representation that includes at least one of computing requirements, data requirements, and context requirements;
• transmitting the task representation to at least one member of the network of computing devices;
• selecting a plurality of computing devices in the network that match at least one of the computing requirements, the data requirements, and the context requirements in the task representation;
• and
• deploying each of the set of computing and sensing programs of the task to the selected computing devices.

A network of computing devices for deployment and execution of tasks includes a computing device having processor in communication with one or more types of memory, the processor configured to:

• create a task for deployment and execution in the network wherein the task is composed of a set of computing and sensing programs and a task representation that includes at least one of computing requirements, data requirements, and context requirements;
• transmit the task representation to at least one member of the network of computing devices;
• select a plurality of computing devices in the network that match at least one of the computing requirements, the data requirements, and the context requirements in the task representation;
• and
• deploy each of the set of computing and sensing programs of the task to the selected computing devices.