[TYPES/announce] FOCLASA'12 Call For Papers

[José Proença]

                    Call for Papers

                      FOCLASA'12
             11th International Workshop on
   Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self Adaptation

            A Satellite Workshop of CONCUR'12

                http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es
        September 8th, 2012, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK



FOCLASA 2012 is a satellite workshop of the 23rd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2012). The goal is to provide a venue where researchers and practitioners on the topics given below can meet, exchange ideas and problems, identify some of the key and fundamental issues related to coordination languages and self adaptive systems, explore together and disseminate solutions.

The proceedings will be published as a volume in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series. Following the tradition of the past editions, we plan to have a special issue of Science of Computer Programming (SCP) dedicated to extended versions of selected publications of this workshop.

Download the call for papers:
http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/documents/cfp-foclasa12.pdf


   IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission: May 25th, 2012
Paper submission: June 1st, 2012
Notification: July 2nd, 2012
Final version: July 16th, 2012
Workshop: September 8th, 2012


   TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Theoretical models for component and service coordination, service composition and concurrent system modeling

- Applications and usability studies for the aforementioned theoretical models, interaction and coordination challenges in various application domains

- Languages and specification protocols for component and service interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis

- "Software as a service" models and dynamic software architectures, like mobile agent-based systems, self-organizing, self-adaptive and self-reconfigurable applications, cloud computing, etc

- Tools and environments for the development of concurrent, customizable, self-monitoring, self-adaptive and self-reconfigurable applications

- Algorithms, mathematical models and realization frameworks for quality-of-service observation, storage, history-based analysis in self-adaptive systems (queuing models, load balancing, fault- tolerance analysis, machine learning systems)

In particular, practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas are solicited as well:

* Business process modeling
* Cloud computing
* Component-based systems
* Grid computing
* Large-scale distributed systems
* Multi-agent systems
* Peer-to-peer systems
* Service-oriented computing


   INVITER SPEAKER

Sebastian Uchitel (Imperial College London)


   PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions must describe authors' original research work and their results. Description of work-in- progress with concrete results is also encouraged. The contributions should not exceed 15 pages formatted according to the style of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS), and should be submitted as Portable Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site.

Submitting an abstract does not put any obligation on the authors to submit a full paper. Abstracts without an accompanying full paper by the paper submission deadline are automatically considered withdrawn. The authors are, however, encouraged to explicitly withdraw their abstract, if they decide not to submit a full paper. All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee who will make a selection among the submissions based on the novelty, soundness and applicability of the presented ideas and results. Concurrent submission to other venues (conferences, workshops or journal) and submission of papers under consideration elsewhere are not allowed. A printed version of the proceedings will be distributed among participants during the workshop. The proceedings of the workshop will be published as a volume in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series. Participants will give a presentation of their papers in twenty minutes, followed by a ten-minute round of questions and discussion on participants' work. Following the tradition of the past editions, we plan to have a special issue of an international scientific journal devoted to FOCLASA 2012. Selected participants will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers after the workshop. These extended versions will be reviewed by an international program committee, which will decide on their final publication on the special issue. In the last few editions of FOCLASA, a special issue of Science of Computer Programming has been dedicated to this workshop.


   PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Natallia Kokash, Leiden University, The Netherlands
António Ravara, New University of Lisbon, Portugal


   PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Martin Berger, University of Sussex, UK
Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain
Holger Giese, University of Potsdam, Germany
Ludovic Henrio, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Paola Inverardi, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, China
Antónia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
MohammadReza Mousavi, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
José Proença, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Pascal Poizat, University of Evry, France
António Ravara, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA
Francesco Tiezzi, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy
Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy


   STEERING COMMITTEE

Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
António Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
Carlos Canal, University of Malága, Spain
Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium
Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malága, Spain
Gwen Salaün, Grenoble INP - INRIA Grenoble - LIG, France



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