CfP: 20th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION 2018)
CALL FOR PAPERS
20th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION 2018)
Madrid, Spain | June 18 - 21 2018 | http://2018.discotec.org
Publications
- Publication of the proceedings in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science of Springer-Verlag
- Publication of extended versions of selected work is planned in a special issue of an international journal as in previous issues of COORDINATION
- Publication of extended survey papers is planned in a dedicated special issue dedicated to the celebration of the 20th edition of COORDINATION
IMPORTANT DATES
- February 2, 2018 Submission of abstracts
- February 9, 2018 Submission of papers
- March 30, 2018 Notification of accepted papers
- June 18-20, 2018 Conferences in Madrid
CONFERENCE GOALS
Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, distributed, mobile, adaptive, reconfigurable and heterogeneous components. New models, architectures, languages and verification techniques are necessary to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today's software development. Coordination languages have emerged as a successful approach, in that they provide abstractions that cleanly separate behaviour from communication, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development.
Building on the success of the previous editions, this conference provides a well-established forum for the growing community of researchers interested in models, languages, architectures, and implementation techniques for coordination.
Topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of:
- Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic, spatial and probabilistic aspects of coordination, logic, emergent behaviour, types, semantics;
- Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures: patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties, including performance aspects;
- Dynamic software architectures: distributed mobile code, configuration, reconfiguration, networked computing, parallel, high-performance and cloud computing;
- Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination;
- Coordination of multiagent and collective systems: models, languages, infrastructures, self-adaptation, self-organisation, distributed solving, collective intelligence and emerging behaviour;
- Coordination and modern distributed computing: Web services, peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing;
- Coordination platforms for infrastructures of emerging new application domains like IoT, fog- and edge- computing;
- Programming methodologies, languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the development and verification of coordinated applications;
- Tools, languages and methodologies for secure coordination;
- Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and coordination models, case studies;
- Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination;
- Industry-led efforts in coordination and case studies.
PROCEEDINGS
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Extended versions of a selection of the best papers is planned to be published in a special issue of an international journal as in previous issues of COORDINATION.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in PostScript or PDF using a two-phase online submission process. Registration of the paper information and abstract (max. 250 words) must be completed before February 2, 2017. Submission of the full paper is due no later than
February 9, 2017. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system, accessible from the conference web site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2018
Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP's Author Code of Conduct, see http://www.ifip.org/ under Publications/Links). The submissions must not exceed the total page number limit (see below), including figures and references, prepared using Springer's LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review. Papers should be submitted as PDF or PS via EasyChair.
We solicit three kinds of submissions:
- Full papers (up to 16 pages + 2 pages references): describing thorough and complete research results and experience reports.
- Short papers (up to 8 pages + 1 page references): describing research in progress or opinion papers on the past of Coordination research, on the current state of the art, or on prospects for the years to come.
- Survey papers (up to 25 pages + 2 pages references): describing important results and successful stories that originated in the context of COORDINATION. All the accepted papers will be presented in a special session for the celebration of the 20th edition of the conference.
The conference proceedings, formed by accepted submissions will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Co-Chairs
- Michele Loreti, Universita' degli Studi di Camerino, Italy
- Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo, Universite' de Geneve, Switzerland
Members
- Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
- Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal
- Jacob Beal, Raytheon BBN Technologies, United States
- Simon Bliudze, INRIA, France
- Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain
- Vashti Galpin, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium
- Eva Kuhn, TU Wien, Austria
- Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Maxime Louvel, Bag-Era, France
- Mieke Massink, CNR-ISTI, Italy
- Hernan Melgratti, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Italy
- Andrea Omicini, Universita' di Bologna, Italy
- Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Luca Padovani, Universita' di Torino, Italy
- Rosario Pugliese, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
- Marjan Sirjani, Malardalen University, Sweden
- Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, United States
- Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy
- Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
STEERING COMMITEE
- Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
- Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Dave Clarke, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Rocco De Nicola, IMT - School for Advanced Studies, Italy
- Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium
- Christine Julien, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Eva Kuhn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Mieke Massink, ISTI CNR, Italy
- Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
- Jose Proenca, University of Minho, Portugal
- Rosario Pugliese, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
- Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland
- Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, California, USA
- Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy (Chair)
- Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIR
- Francesco Tiezzi, Universita' degli Studi di Camerino, Italy