[TYPES/announce] COORDINATION 2021 - First Call for Papers

[Ornela Dardha]

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23rd International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages
 		  			COORDINATION 2021

    14-18th of June, 2021 at the University of Malta, Valletta, Malta

			https://www.discotec.org/2021/coordination <https://www.discotec.org/2021/coordination>


COORDINATION 2021 is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2021
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HIGHLIGHTS

Deadlines
  January 29, 2021 — abstract submission
  February 5, 2021 — paper submission

Keynote Speakers:
  Gilles Fedak, iExec, FR
  Mira Mezini, Technical University of Darmstadt, DE
  Alexandra Silva, University College London, UK

Submission link
  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021>

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 the following
  three special topics (details below): Configurable Systems in the 
  DevOps Era, Microservices, and Techniques to reason about
  interacting 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 2021 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. Configurable Systems in the DevOps Era

  Highly configurable software systems, such as software product
  lines, call for automatic mechanisms that allow to tame the complexity
  and variability. DevOps have pushed forward the importance of
  automating every step of the software development process,
  including the management of configurable systems.
  In this special topic, we welcome submissions addressing novel
  techniques and methodologies for the COORDINATION of automatic
  configuration tasks or for the COORDINATION of the various
  phases from development to deployment supporting the continuous
  release of software/products.
  Moreover, given the relevance of the topic to industry and aligned
  with the main topics of COORDINATION, we encourage submissions
  of efforts carried out in collaboration with industry, including case studies.

  Contacts: Maurice ter Beek (maurice.terbeek at isti.cnr.it <mailto:maurice.terbeek at isti.cnr.it>) and
  Hugo Torres Vieira (hugo.torres.vieira at ubi.pt <mailto:hugo.torres.vieira at ubi.pt>)

2. Microservices (in collaboration with the Microservices Community)

  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 of
  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 <mailto:ivan.lanese at unibo.it>) and
   Larisa Safina  (larisa.safina at inria.fr <mailto:larisa.safina at inria.fr>)

3. 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 2021 edition 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 <mailto:balzers at cs.cmu.edu>) and
   Anastasia Mavridou (anastasia.mavridou at nasa.gov <mailto: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:
  Giorgio Audrito (giorgio.audrito at unito.it <mailto:giorgio.audrito at unito.it>) and
  Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (sltarifa at ifi.uio.no <mailto:sltarifa at ifi.uio.no>) for details.

SUBMISSIONS

Important Dates
    
January 29, 2021 — abstract submission  
February 5, 2021 —  paper submission
April 2, 2021 —  notification
April 23, 2021 — camera ready


PUBLICATION

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=coordination2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021>

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/ <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 authors of accepted papers (in any submission category) will be
encouraged to make their artefacts publicly available using permanent
repositories such as Zenodo etc. (for Tool papers, the tool should already
be available at submission time for reviewing purposes,
but not necessarily via a permanent archive with a DOI).

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

Special Issues

Following the tradition of previous editions of COORDINATION,
according to the quality and number of the submission, we will organise
special issues of extended and selected Full/Short/Survey/Tool papers
in reputable journals such as LMCS (Logical Methods in Computer Science)
and SCP (Science of Computer Programming).
Special issues for last year’s edition are under preparation and we will
advertise them on the conference’s website as soon as they get published.
 
COMMITTEES

Program committee chairs

Ferruccio Damiani (ferruccio.damiani at unito.it <mailto:ferruccio.damiani at unito.it>) (University of Turin, Italy)
Ornela Dardha (ornela.dardha at glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:ornela.dardha at glasgow.ac.uk>) (University of Glasgow, UK)

Tool track chairs

Giorgio Audrito (giorgio.audrito at unito.it <mailto:giorgio.audrito at unito.it>) (University of Turin, Italy)
Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (sltarifa at ifi.uio.no <mailto:sltarifa at ifi.uio.no>) (University of Oslo, Norway)

Program committee

Zena M. Ariola (University of Oregon, USA)
Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Giorgio Audrito (University of Turin, Italy)
Stephanie Balzer (CMU, USA)
Maurice H. ter Beek (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Simon Bliudze (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)
Roberto Casadei (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy)
Vashti Galpin (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Fatemeh Ghassemi (University of Tehran, Iran)
Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
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)
Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
Larisa Safina (Inria - Lille Nord Europe, France)
Gwen Salaün (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Meng Sun (Peking University, China)
Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA)
Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, Norway)
Peter Thieman (Universität Freiburg, Germany)
Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University, Iceland)
 
Steering committee

Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Simon Bliudze (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)
Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
Rocco De Nicola, IMT (School for Advanced Studies Lucca, 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) -  Chair)
José Proença (CISTER, ISEP, Portugal)
Rosario Pugliese (Università di Firenze, Italy)
Hanne Riis Nielson (DTU, Denmark)
Marjan Sirjani (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA)
Emilio Tuosto (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Mirko Viroli (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy)
Gianluigi Zavattaro (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy)


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