[TYPES/announce] DisCoTec 2018 1st CfP

[ivan.lanese]

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   Call for Papers

   DisCoTec 2018

   13th International Federated Conference on
   Distributed Computing Techniques

   http://2018.discotec.org

   Madrid, Spain, 18-21 June 2018

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The DisCoTec series of federated conferences is one of the major events
sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing
(IFIP). The main conferences are:

* COORDINATION
* DAIS
* FORTE

* Important Dates *

COORDINATION, DAIS & FORTE (LNCS publication)

- February 2, 2018: Submission of abstract
- February 9, 2018: Submission of papers
- March 30, 2018: Notification of accepted papers
- June 18-20, 2018: Conferences in Madrid

Collocated workshops:

- January 12, 2018: Deadline for workshop proposals
- January 26, 2018: Notification of accepted workshops
- Mid April, 2018: Submission of papers (workshops)
- Mid May, 2018: Notification of accepted papers (workshops)
- June 20-21, 2018 Workshops in Madrid

* General Chair *

Manuel Núñez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

* Organisation Chairs *

Jesús Correas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Sonia Estévez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

* Publicity Chair *

Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy

* Workshops Chairs *

Luis Llana (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland)

* Steering Board *

Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy)
Kurt Geihs (University of Kasel, Germany)
Alain Girault (INRIA Grenoble, France)
Kostas Magoutis (ICS-FORTH, Greece)
Elie Najm (Telecom Paris Tech, France — Chair)
Uwe Nestmann (TU Berlin, Germany)
Rui Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal)
Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA Grenoble, France)
Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, Italy)

* Publication *

Each paper will undergo a thorough process of review and the conference
proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.

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   COORDINATION 2018

   20th IFIP International Conference on
   Coordination Models and Languages

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* 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.

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, emergent behaviour, types, semantics;
- Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures: patterns and
   styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties,
   including performance aspects;
- Coordination, architectural, and interface definition languages:
   implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity;
- Middlewares and coordination;
- 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;
- Programming languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the
   development of coordinated applications;
- Programming methodologies and verification of coordinated
   applications;
- Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures:
   programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and
   coordination models, case studies;
- Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination.

* Program Committee Chairs *

- Michele Loreti, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
- Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo, Université de Genève, Switzerland

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   DAIS 2018
   18th IFIP International Conference on
   Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

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* Scope *

The DAIS conference series addresses all aspects of distributed
applications, including their design, implementation and operation, the
supporting middleware, appropriate software engineering methodologies
and tools, as well as experimental studies and practice reports. This
time we welcome particularly contributions on architectures, models,
technologies and platforms for large scale and complex distributed
applications and services that are related to the latest trends towards
bridging the physical/virtual worlds based on flexible and versatile
service architectures and platforms. Submissions will be judged on their
originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical
correctness.

The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited
to:
- Novel and innovative distributed applications and systems,
   particularly in areas of middleware, data store, cloud computing, edge
   and fog computing, big data systems, data center and internet-scale
   systems, social networking, cyber-physical systems, mobile computing,
   software-defined network (SDN), service-oriented computing, and
   peer-to-peer systems;
- Novel architectures and mechanisms, particularly in areas of pub/sub
   systems, language-based approaches, overlay protocols, virtualization,
   resource allocation, blockchains, parallelization, and bio-inspired
   distributed computing;
- System issues and design goals, including self-management, security
   and practical applications of cryptography, trust and privacy,
   cooperation incentives and fairness, fault-tolerance and
   dependability, scalability and elasticity, and tail-performance and
   energy-efficiency;
- Engineering and tools, including model-driven engineering,
   domain-specific languages, design patterns and methods, profiling and
   learning, testing and validation, and distributed debugging.

* Program Committee Chairs *

- Silvia Bonomi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
- Etienne Riviere, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

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   FORTE 2018
   38th IFIP International Conference on
   Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems

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* Scope *

FORTE 2018 is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools,
and applications for distributed systems. The conference solicits
original contributions that advance the science and technologies for
distributed systems, with special interest in the areas of:
- Component- and model-based design
- Object technology, modularity, software adaptation
- Service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and mobile
   computing systems
- Software quality, reliability, availability, and safety;
- Security, privacy, and trust in distributed systems;
- Adaptive distributed systems, self-stabilization;
- Self-healing/organizing;
- Verification, validation, formal analysis, and testing of the above.

Contributions that combine theory and practice and that exploit formal
methods and theoretical foundations to present novel solutions to
problems arising from the development of distributed systems are
encouraged. FORTE covers distributed computing models and formal
specification, testing and verification methods. The application domains
include all kinds of application-level distributed systems,
telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real-time systems, as
well as networking and communication security and reliability.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Languages and semantic foundations: new modeling and language concepts
   for distribution and concurrency, semantics for different types of
   languages, including programming languages, modeling languages, and
   domain-specific languages; real-time and probability aspects;
- Formal methods and techniques: design, specification, analysis,
   verification, validation, testing and runtime verification of various
   types of distributed systems including communications and network
   protocols, service-oriented systems, adaptive distributed systems,
   cyber-physical systems and sensor networks;
- Foundations of security: new principles for qualitative and
   quantitative security analysis of distributed systems, including
   formal models based on probabilistic concepts;
- Applications of formal methods: applying formal methods and techniques
   for studying quality, reliability, availability, and safety of
   distributed systems;
- Practical experience with formal methods: industrial applications,
   case studies and software tools for applying formal methods and
   description techniques to the development and analysis of real
   distributed systems.

* Program Committee Chairs *

- Luis Caires, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Christel Baier, Universität Dresden, Germany