Coordination 2006: Second call for papers (Bologna IT, Jun 06)

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                                              Second 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


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                                                      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


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                                                      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://www.coordination2005.org.


                                                    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


                                                            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 University, USA
Robert Tolksdorf FU Berlin, Germany
Emilio Tuosto University of Leicester, UK
Carlos Varela Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
Alan Wood University of York, UK

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