[TYPES/announce] COORDINATION 2020: CfP - Malta, June 15-19

[Simon Bliudze]

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22nd International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages
                        COORDINATION 2020

    15-19th of June, 2020 at the University of Malta, Valletta

            http://www.discotec.org/2020/coordination

COORDINATION 2020 is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2020
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HIGHLIGHTS

Deadlines
  03/02/2020: abstract submission
  14/02/2020: paper submission

Keynote Speaker
  Peter Kriens: “Formal Specifications to Increase Understanding”
  http://aqute.biz/

  There will be two other joint keynote speakers at DisCoTec,
  invited by FORTE and DAIS respectively (TBA)

Submission link
  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2020

Types of contribution
  Following the success of previous years, we welcome a range of
  contributions other than regular full papers: survey papers,
  short papers and tool papers

Special topics
  We plan to have dedicated sessions in the program on two special
  topics: Microservices and Digital Contracts

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 OF INTEREST

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 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.

SPECIAL TOPICS

COORDINATION 2020 is seeking 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.

1. Microservices

   Microservices are a novel architectural style, taking to an
   extreme the ideas of service oriented computing. In
   microservices, applications are composed by loosely coupled
   entities, the microservices. Beyond that, single microservices
   should be small enough to be easily managed, modified, and if
   needed removed and rewritten from scratch. Microservices aim at
   obtaining high flexibility, reconfigurability and scalability,
   thanks also to the exploitation of containerization
   technologies such as Docker. Given that microservice-based
   applications are composed by many loosely-coupled
   microservices, techniques allowing one to coordinate their
   execution in order to obtain the desired behaviour are of
   paramount importance.

   Contacts:
   - Ivan Lanese (ivan.lanese at unibo.it) and
   - Alberto Lluch Lafuente (albl at dtu.dk)

2. Techniques to reason about interacting digital contracts

   With the rise of blockchains and cryptocurrencies, digital
   contracts have become popular in the form of smart contracts,
   which encode a financial transaction between possibly
   distrusting parties using a distributed consensus protocol.
   Although smart contracts bear the potential to benefit society
   quite fundamentally (e.g., equalize access to financial
   infrastructure, increase fairness), the benefits are shadowed
   by the existence of severe security vulnerabilities in deployed
   smart contracts and smart contract languages.  In the 2020
   instantiation of COORDINATION, we are soliciting contributions
   on new programming language paradigms and patterns for
   expressing digital contract interactions, verification and
   analysis techniques for checking safety and liveness properties
   and guaranteeing correctness of digital contracts, as well as
   compositionality and scalability of digital contract reasoning
   techniques.  Contacts: Stephanie Balzer (balzers at cs.cmu.edu)
   and Anastasia Mavridou (anastasia.mavridou at nasa.gov)

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 an extended abstract
and a link to a demo video that previews the potential tool
presentation at the conference.  Both the abstract and the video
will be decisive criteria in the selection process.

Authors of accepted contributions will be asked to produce a
regular (full) paper to appear in the conference proceedings,
which will be subject to a lightweight revision process.

Interested authors can contact the tool track chairs (Omar Inverso
omar.inverso at gssi.it, Hugo Torres Vieira
hugo.torres.vieira at ubi.pt) for details.

SUBMISSIONS

Important Dates
  03/02/2020 - abstract submission
  14/02/2020 - paper submission
  10/04/2020 - notification
  24/04/2020 - camera ready version

Publication and Special Issues

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF using a
two-phase online submission process.  Registration of the paper
information and abstract must be completed according to the
DisCoTec submission dates.  Submissions are handled through the
EasyChair conference management system, accessible from the
conference web site:

  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2020

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) prepared using Springer’s LNCS
style.  Submissions not adhering to the above specified
constraints may be rejected without review.

Submission categories

- Full papers (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references): describing
  thorough and complete research results and experience reports.
 
- Short papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages 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.

- Tool papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references): describing
  technological artefacts in the scope of the research topics of
  COORDINATION. The paper must contain a link to a publicly
  downloadable MPEG-4 demo video of at most 10 minutes length.

The conference proceedings, formed by accepted submissions will be
published by Springer in the LNCS Series.

Special Issues

Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical
Methods in Computer Science and a separate special issue dedicated
to tool papers is being planned. Special issues for last year’s
edition are under preparation in Logical Methods in Computer
Science for selected research papers, and in Science of Computer
Programming for selected tool papers (as a collection of Original
Software Publications.
 
COMMITTEES

Program committee chairs

Simon Bliudze (INRIA, France)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)

Tool track chairs

Omar Inverso (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)

Program committee

Stephanie Balzer (CMU, USA)
Chiara Bodei (Università di Pisa, Italy)
Marius Bozga (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Roberto Bruni (Università di Pisa, Italy)
Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK)
Fatemeh Ghassemi (University of Tehran, Iran)
Roberto Guanciale (KTH, Sweden)
Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, France)
Omar Inverso (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium)
Eva Kühn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, Italy)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (DTU, Denmark)
Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy)
Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Claudio Antares Mezzina (Università degli studi di Urbino, Italy)
Rumyana Neykova (Brunel University London, UK)
Luca Padovani (Università di Torino, Italy)
Kirstin Peters (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Danilo Pianini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Rene Rydhof Hansen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Gwen Salaün (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Meng Sun (Peking University, China)
Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK
                  & Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
 
Steering committee

Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands
Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Rocco De Nicola, IMT - School for Advanced Studies, Italy
Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium
Christine Julien, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Eva Kühn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Michele Loreti, University of Camerino, Italy
Mieke Massink, ISTI CNR, Italy
Jose Proença, University of Minho, Portugal
Rosario Pugliese, Università di Firenze, Italy
Hanne Riis Nielson, DTU, Denmark
Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, California, USA
Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK
                  & Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy
Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy (Chair)