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COORDINATION '99

Third Int. Conference on Coordination Models and Languages

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - April, 26-28 1999

Sponsored by IPA and KNAW In Cooperation With  ACM SIGSOFT

The last decade has seen the emergence of a class of models and languages variously termed "coordination languages", "configuration languages", "architectural description languages", and "agent-oriented programming languages". These formalisms provide a clean separation between individual software components and their interaction within the overall software organization. This separation makes large applications more tractable, supports global analysis, and enhances reuse of software.
Building on the success of COORDINATION '96 and '97, whose proceedings were published as Springer Verlag LNCS 1061 and LNCS 1282, this conference provides a forum for the growing community of researchers interested in theoretical models, languages, and implementation techniques for coordination. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
  • Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component composition, concurrency, dynamic aspects of coordination.
  • 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.
  • Agent-oriented languages: formal models for interacting agents.
  • Dynamic software architectures: mobile agents, configuration, reconfiguration.
  • Tools and environments for the development of coordinated applications: integration within the development process.
  • Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and coordination models, case studies.
  • Submission instructions: Authors are invited to send 6 copies of a full paper (in English, up to 6 000 words, preferably double-sided, adopt the llncs.sty style if you use LaTeX) at the postal address mentioned below. Full papers must be received no later than Nov 25 1998. Electronic submissions will not be considered. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals is not allowed.

    An abstract of no more than 250 words must be sent by email in ASCII format to mailto://coord99@cs.unibo.it. Included in the email message must be the names and affiliations of all authors, and the full address information (address, phone, fax, email) of one contact author. The email abstract must be received by Nov 18 1998, one week before the full papers are due.

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

    Conference location: Coordination '99 will be hosted by CWI in Amsterdam, NL. This CfP can be found at http://www.cs.unibo.it/~coord99/

    Proceedings: The Proceedings of Coordination '99 will be published by Springer in LNCS series.

    Address to send submissions:

    prof. P. Ciancarini
    Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione - Universita' di Bologna
    Mura Anteo Zamboni, 7 - 40127 Bologna - Italy

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Deadline for email abstracts: Nov 18 1998
    Deadline for paper submissions: Nov 25 1998
    Notification of acceptance: Jan 28 1999
    Camera-ready version due: Feb 20 1999
    Conference: 26-28 April 1999

    Program co-chairs:

    Paolo Ciancarini (Italy) and Alexander Wolf (USA)

    Organizing co-chairs:

    Farhad Arbab (NL) and Joost Kok (NL)

    Program Committee

    Farhad Arbab(CWI/NL) Maarten Boasson (Signaal/NL)
    Nick Carriero (Yale U./USA) Georges Gonthier (INRIA/F)
    Roberto Gorrieri (U.Bologna/Italy) Chris Hankin (IC/UK)
    Paola Inverardi (U.L'Aquila/Italy) Valerie Issarny (IRISA/F)
    Suresh Jagannathan (NEC/USA) Joost Kok (U.Leiden/NL)
    Jeff Kramer (IC/UK) Jose Meseguer (SRI/USA)
    Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (U.Aachen/D) Dewayne Perry (BellLabs, USA)
    Antonio Porto (N.U.Lisbon/P) Gruia-Catalin Roman (Washington U./USA)
    Richard Taylor (UCI/USA) Robert Tolksdorf (TU.Berlin/D)
    Mike Woolridge (QMC/UK)