COORDINATION 2022

24th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages

COORDINATION 2022 is planned as a physical, in-person event, with certain support for remote presence, both for speakers and for other participants who are unable or unwilling to come. Depending on the pandemic situation, we may have to make a decision whether to cancel the physical component of the event or not.

Scope

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.

Main topics

• 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 and security 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 multi-agent 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 emergent new application domains like IoT, fog- and edge-computing;
• Cybersecurity aspects of coordinated systems, coordinated approaches to cybersecurity;
• 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.

Special topic

We seek contributions that enable the cross-fertilisation with other research communities in computer science or in other engineering or scientific disciplines. Depending on the quality of the contributions, we plan to have dedicated sessions in the program, possibly together with a panel discussion.

Microservices (in collaboration with the Microservices Community)

The microservices architectural style is a recent paradigm that pushes the ideas of service-oriented computing to the extreme. In this style, applications are compositions of microservices: loosely-coupled entities that can be executed independently. A microservice should be small enough to be easily managed, modified, and if needed removed and rewritten from scratch. The aim is to obtain high flexibility, reconfigurability, and scalability, thanks also to the exploitation of container technologies (such as Docker). In this setting, coordination is essential: an application works only if the microservices coordinate well with each other, in order to reach their common goal. Establishing coordination techniques for obtaining the desired behaviour out of a system of microservices is therefore of the utmost importance.

Contacts: Ivan Lanese (ivan.lanese@unibo.it) and Fabrizio Montesi (fmontesi@imada.sdu.dk)

Tool papers

We welcome tool papers that describe experience reports, technological artefacts and innovative prototypes (including engines, APIs, etc.), for coordinating, modelling, analysing, simulating or testing systems, as well as educational tools in the scope of the research topics of COORDINATION. In addition, we welcome submissions promoting the integration of existing tools relevant to the community. Submissions to the tool track must include (in addition to the paper) a link to a demo video that previews the potential tool presentation at the conference.