CfP COORDINATION 2024 - 26th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages

Scope

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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

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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, distribution, mobility; dynamic, spatial

   and probabilistic aspects of coordination; logic, types, semantics.

- Coordination of multi-agent and collective systems:

   models, languages, infrastructures, self-adaptation, self-organisation,

   distributed solving, collective intelligence and emerging behaviour.

- Coordination and modern distributed computing:

   web services, microservices, peer-to-peer networks, grid computing,

   context-awareness, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing, reversible

   computing.

- Session-based programming: 

   models, languages, behavioural types, and tools.

- Models, languages, verification techniques, and tools for

   interacting smart contracts and (blockchain-based) decentralised

   applications.

- Languages, methodologies, and tools for secure coordination.

- Cybersecurity aspects of coordinated systems, coordinated approaches to

   cybersecurity. 

- Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination. 

- 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.

- Coordination platforms for infrastructures of emergent new application 

   domains, like IoT, fog-, and edge-computing.

- Programming methodologies, languages, middleware, tools, and environments

   for the development and verification of coordinated applications, including

   DevOps approaches.

- Coordination in business process management:

   coordination models for business process management, process mining

   techniques and tools for coordination models.

- Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures:

   programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and

   coordination models, industry-driven efforts in coordination and case

   studies.

- Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination.

Invited Speaker

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Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Important dates

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- Abstract submission: February 02, 2024

- Paper submission: February 09, 2024

- Paper notification: March 29, 2024

- Camera-ready: April 24, 2024

Dates are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Submission

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We invite you to submit:

- Regular papers (7-15 pages, not counting references):

   describing thorough and complete research results and experience reports. In

   a clear case of need, as an exception, authors may ask for permission via

   email to the PC co-chairs to exceed the paper's max length by at most 10%,

   under the condition that last-minute shortening would really damage the

   clarity of the paper or result in non-submission. The authors must make a

   draft of the paper available to the PC co-chairs via EasyChair.

- Short papers (4-6 pages, not counting 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 (16-25 pages, not counting references):

   describing important results and success stories related to the topics of

   COORDINATION.

- Tool papers (4-15 pages, not counting references):

    describing technological artefacts in the scope of the research topics of  

    COORDINATION. Tool papers should provide a clear account of the tool's

    functionality, discuss the tool's practical capabilities possibly with

    reference to the type and size of problems it can handle, and, when

    applicable, report on realistic case studies (possibly providing a rigorous

    experimental evaluation). Tool papers may also provide an account of the

    theoretical foundations, including relevant citations, and present design

    and implementation concerns, possibly including software architecture and

    core data structures. Papers that present extensions to existing tools

    should clearly describe the improvements or extensions with respect to

    previously published versions of the tool, possibly providing data on

    enhancements in terms of resources and capabilities. Papers may contain a

    link to a publicly downloadable MPEG-4 demo video of at most 10 minutes

    length.

Artefacts

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Following ACM's definition [1], an artefact is "a digital object that was either

created by the authors to be used as part of the study or generated by the

experiment itself. For example, artifacts can be software systems, scripts used

to run experiments, input datasets, raw data collected in the experiment, or

scripts used to analyze results".

To improve and reward reproducibility and to give more visibility and credit to

the effort of tool developers in the COORDINATION community, authors of

submitted papers are invited to submit publicly available artefacts (using

permanent repositories such as Software Heritage, Zenodo, etc.), which will be

associated with their paper for evaluation. Based on the result of the artefact

evaluation, one or more badges may be applied to a paper. Specifically,

COORDINATION uses the EAPLS badging scheme [2], which in its own turn is based

on and consistent with the ACM initiative.

Artefact submission is mandatory for tool papers and the result of the artefact

evaluation will be considered in the tool paper's acceptance decision. Instead,

artefact submission is optional for all the other paper categories and the

result of the artefact evaluation will not affect the paper's acceptance

decision but may affect the best paper selection.

Dates (AoE):

- Artefact submission: February 29, 2024

- Kick-the-tires phase:

  - Problem reports from reviewers: 8 March, 2024

  - Authors' response to reviewers: 15 March, 2024

- Artefact notification: March 29, 2024

[1] https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-and-badging-current

[2] https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges

Proceedings

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The conference proceedings, consisting of accepted submissions from any paper

category, will be published by Springer in LNCS-IFIP volumes.

Special issues

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After the conference, accepted papers (except for tool papers) selected from

COORDINATION and FORTE programmes will be invited to a special issue of the

Logical Methods in Computer Science journal. The paper submission deadline is

planned for October/November 2024, while the notifications for the first round

of reviews around February 2025. Selected accepted tool papers, instead, will be

invited to a special issue of a reputable journal with a track dedicated to

software, like the Journal of Science of Computer Programming's Software Track.

Programme Committee chairs

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Ilaria Castellani (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France)

Francesco Tiezzi (University of Florence, Italy)

Publicity chair

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Saverio Giallorenzo (University of Bologna, Italy)

Programme Committee

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Giorgio Audrito (University of Turin, Italy)  

Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)

Chiara Bodei (University of Pisa, Italy)

Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

Silvia Crafa (University of Padova, Italy)

Cinzia Di Giusto (Université Côte d'Azur, France)

Paola Giannini (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy)

Hannah Gommerstadt (Vassar College, USA)

Heerko Groefsema (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Thomas Hildebrandt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Sung-Shik Jongmans (Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands)

Dimka Karastoyanova (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Jean Krivine (IRIF, CNRS, France)

Eva Kühn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) 

Roland Kuhn (Actyx, Germany)

Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) 

Antónia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy)

Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, Italy)

Hernán Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Maurizio Murgia (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)

Anna Philippou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

José Proença (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal)

Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)

Barbara Re (University of Camerino, Italy)

Marjan Sirjani (Mälardalen University, Sweden)

Meng Sun (Peking University, China)

Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA)

Peter Thiemann (Universität Freiburg, Germany)

Mirko Viroli (University of Bologna, Italy) 

Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) 

Artefact Evaluation Committee chair

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Rumyana Neykova (Brunel University London, UK)

Artefact Evaluation Committee

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TBA

Steering Committee

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Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)

Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands)

Simon Bliudze (INRIA Lille, France)

Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)

Ferruccio Damiani (University of Turin, Italy)

Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, 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)

Sung-Shik Jongmans (Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands)

Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Eva Kühn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

Antónia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Michele Loreti (Università di Camerino, Italy)

Mieke Massink (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy) - chair

José Proença (CISTER, ISEP, Portugal)

Rosario Pugliese (Università di Firenze, Italy)

Marjan Sirjani (Mälardalen University, Sweden)

Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA)

Maurice ter Beek (CNR-ISTI, Italy) 

Emilio Tuosto (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)

Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Mirko Viroli (Università di Bologna, Italy)

Gianluigi Zavattaro (Università di Bologna, Italy)