[TYPES] COORDINATION 2006: Preliminary Call for Papers

[Herbert Wiklicky]

                       Preliminary Call for Papers

                          COORDINATION 2006
  8th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages
           http://www.cs.unibo.it/discotec06/Coordination06

			     as part of
            DisCoTec'06 - Distributed Computing Techniques
                 co-located with DAIS'06 & FMOODS'06
                  http://www.cs.unibo.it/discotec06

 			   Bologna, Italy
                           14-16 June 2006

======================================================================

                           IMPORTANT DATES

         * Submission of abstract:           10 January 2006
         * Submission of papers:             17 January 2006
         * Notification of acceptance:        7 March 2006
         * Final version:                    28 March 2006
         * Conference:                       14-16 June 2006

======================================================================

                           CONFERENCE GOALS

Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent,
distributed, mobile, reconfigurable and heterogenous components. New
models, architectures, languages, 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 behavior 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.

                          PREVIOUS EDITIONS

The previous editions of COORDINATION took place in Cesena (Italy),
Berlin (Germany), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Limassol (Cyprus), York
(UK), Pisa (Italy) and Namur (Belgium). More details are available
at http://music.dsi.unifi.it/coordination.

                          TOPICS OF INTEREST

They include but are not limited to:

* Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component
  composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic aspects of coordination,
  emergent behavior.
* Specification, refinement, and analysis of software architectures:
  patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional
  properties.
* Coordination, architectural, and interface definition languages:
  implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity.
* Multiagent systems and coordination: models, languages, infrastructures.
* Dynamic software architectures: mobile code and agents, configuration,
  reconfiguration, self-organization.
* Coordination and modern distributed computing: Web services,
  peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness, ubiquitous
  computing.
* Programming languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the
  development 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

                             PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings of previous editions of this conference were published by
Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and
are available as LNCS volumes 1061, 1282, 1594, 1906, 2315, 2949 and
3454. The intention is to continue this series.

                       SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in PostScript
or PDF using a two-phase online submission process. Registration of
the paper information and abstract (max. 250 words) must be completed
before 10 January 2006. Submission of the full paper is due no later
than 17 January 2006. Further instructions on the submission procedure
will be published at http://www.cs.unibo.it/discotec06/Coordination06.

Submissions must be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and must not exceed 15
pages in length. Papers that are not in the requested format or
significantly exceed the mandated length may be rejected without going
through the review phase.

Submissions should explicitly state their contribution and their
relevance to the theme of the conference. Other criteria for selection
will be originality, significance, correctness, and clarity.

Simultaneous or similar submissions to other conferences or journals
are not allowed.

                         CONFERENCE LOCATION

The conference will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science
of the University of Bologna.

                          PROGRAM COMMITTEE
                            (Provisional)

                              Co-Chairs

Paolo Ciancarini	          University of Bologna, Italy
Herbert Wiklicky	          Imperial College London, UK

                               Members

Farhad Arbab                      CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Antonio Brogi			  University of Pisa, Italy
Wolfgang Emmerich                 University College London, UK
Frank de Boer                     CWI & Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Jean-Marie Jacquet 		  University of Namur, Belgium
Josst Kok                         Leiden University, The Netherlands
Toby Lehman			  IBM Almaden, US
D.C. Marinescu                    University of Central Florida, US
Ronaldo Menezes			  Florida Institute of Technology, US
Andrea Omicini                     University of Bologna, Italy
Paolo Petta                       OeFAI, Austria
Gian Pietro Picco		  Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ernesto Pimentel                  University of Malaga, Spain
Rosario Pugliese                  University of Florence, Italy
Gruia Catalin Roman		  Washington Univeeristy, USA
Robert Tolksdorf                  FU Berlin, Germany 
Emilio Tuosto                     University of Leicester, UK
Carlos Varela			  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
Alan Wood                         University of York, UK