Using decPOMDPcoms to Holistically Model and Program Nanodevices and Emergent Nanonetworks

In many areas like medicine, there is a wide range of promising use cases for nanostructures and nanonetworks. While many machine models and suggestions for individual components have been proposed in the past, the field lacks an enveloping modeling framework. Researchers rarely specify a machine model for their proposed solutions, and as a result, partial solutions are often incompatible. With a large set of devices, a partially observable stochastic environment, and noisy observations, many components of such nanoscale systems can be modeled as a decentralized, partially observable, Markov decision process with special communication capabilities (DecPOMDPcom). We extend and specify an existing set of component-based definitions to allow for much more precise specifications and the generation of autonomous programs for nanobots."