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Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers
COORDINATION '99
Third International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
26-28 April 1999
http://www.cs.unibo.it/~coord99/
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 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, mobility, 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 6000 words, preferably double-sided) at the postal address
mentioned below. Please use the LNCS style, which is described at the
following site.
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Full papers must be received no later than Nov 25 1998. Electronic
submissions will not be considered. Simultaneous or similar
submissions 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Included in the email 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.
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.
Conference Location
Coordination '99 will be hosted by CWI in Amsterdam, NL. Information
on CWI and Amsterdam are available at the following sites.
http://www.cwi.nl
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/amsterdam.html
http://www.cwi.nl/~behr/PanoramaUK/Panorama.html
IMPORTANT DATES
Pre-submission abstracts (email): Nov 18 1998
Full paper submissions (post): Nov 25 1998
Notification of acceptance: Jan 25 1999
Camera-ready version: Feb 25 1999
Address submissions to:
Prof. P. Ciancarini
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione
Universita' di Bologna
Mura Anteo Zamboni, 7
40127 Bologna - Italy
Program co-chairs:
Paolo Ciancarini (Italy) and Alexander Wolf (USA)
Organizing Chairs:
Farhad Arbab (NL) and Joost Kok (NL)
Program Committee:
Farhad Arbab (CWI/NL)
Maarten Boasson (Signaal/NL)
Nick Carriero (Yale/USA)
Georges Gonthier (INRIA/F)
Roberto Gorrieri (Bologna/Italy)
Chris Hankin (IC/UK)
Paola Inverardi (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 (Aachen/D)
Antonio Porto (U.Lisbon/P)
G. Catalin Roman (S. Louis/USA)
Richard Taylor (UCI/USA)
Robert Tolksdorf (TUBerlin/D)
Mike Woolridge (QMC/UK)
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