  Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS) consist of a large number of spatially
distributed heterogeneous entities with decentralised control and varying
degrees of complex autonomous behaviour that may be competing for shared
resources even when collaborating to reach common goals. It is important to
carry out thorough quantitative modelling and analysis and verification of
their design to investigate all aspects of their behaviour before they are put
into operation. This requires combinations of formal methods and applied
mathematics which moreover scale to large-scale CAS. The primary goal of
FORECAST is to raise awareness in the software engineering and formal methods
communities of the particularities of CAS and the design and control problems
which they bring.
