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Event: COORDINATION 2023 - 25th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages

Dates: June 19-23, 2023

Location: Lisboa, Portugal

Website: https://www.discotec.org/2023/coordination

Abstract submission deadline: February 11, 2023

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2023
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Call for Papers
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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.

Topics:
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* Theoretical models and foundations for coordination:
component composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic, spatial and
probabilistic aspects of coordination, logic, emergent behaviour, types,
semantics;
* 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
* Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination;
* 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, peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness,
ubiquitous computing, mobile computing;
* Coordination platforms for infrastructures of emergent new application domains
like IoT, fog- and edge-computing;
* Cybersecurity aspects of coordinated systems, coordinated approaches to
cybersecurity;
* Programming methodologies, languages, middleware, tools, and environments
for the development and verification of coordinated applications;
* Tools, languages and methodologies for secure coordination;
* Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures:
programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and
coordination models, case studies;
* Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination;
* Industry-led efforts in coordination and case studies.

Invited Speaker
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Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University, USA


We invite you to submit:
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* Regular long papers (7-15 pages, not counting references):
describing thorough and complete research results and experience reports.
* Regular 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.
* Short tool papers (4-6 pages, not counting references):
describing technological artefacts in the scope of the research topics of
COORDINATION. Short tool papers are not required to provide an account of
theoretical foundations and are not required to present the design and
implementation concerns. They should provide a clear account of the tool’s
functionality and discuss the tool’s practical capabilities. The paper must
contain a link to a publicly downloadable MPEG-4 demo video of at most 10
minutes length.
* Long tool papers (7-15 pages, not counting references):
describing technological artefacts in the scope of the research topics of
COORDINATION. A full-length tool paper should provide a brief account of the
theoretical foundations (including relevant citations), present the design and
implementation concerns (possibly including software architecture and core
data structures), 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). 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). The paper must contain a link to a publicly downloadable MPEG-4
demo video of at most 10 minutes length.
* Survey papers (16-25 pages, not counting references):
describing important results and success stories that originated in the
context of COORDINATION.


Important dates
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* Abstract submission: February 11, 2023

* Paper submission: February 18, 2023

* Paper notification: March 31, 2023

* Artefact submission: April 14, 2023

* Artefact notification: April 30, 2023

* Camera-ready: April 30, 2023

Dates are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Proceedings
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The conference proceedings, formed by accepted submissions from any category, will be published by Springer in LNCS-IFIP volumes.

Special issues
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Following the tradition of previous editions of COORDINATION, depending on the quality and number of the submissions, COORDINATION 2023 will host special issues of selected papers in reputable journals like the journal of Science of Computer Programming’s Software Track for tool papers and the journal of Logical Methods in Computer Science for the remaining categories.


Program Committee chairs
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Antónia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Sung-Shik Jongmans (Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands)

Publicity chair
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Giorgio Audrito (University of Torino, Italy)

Program Committee
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Giorgio Audrito (University of Turin, Italy)
Marco Autili (Università dell’Aquila, Italy)
Massimo Bartoletti (Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)
Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Javier Cámara (University of Malaga, Spain)
Ilara Castellani (INRIA, France)
Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, Malta)
Vashti Galpin (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Narges Khakpour (Newcastle University, UK)
Eva Kühn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy)
Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Sung Meng (Peking University, China)
Hernán Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Rumyana Neykova (Brunel University London, UK)
Anna Philippou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
José Proença (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal)
Rosario Pugliese (University of Florence, Italy)
Marjan Sirjani (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, USA)
Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, Norway)
Maurice ter Beek (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Peter Thiemann (Universität Freiburg, Germany)
Emilio Tuosto (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
Mirko Viroli (University of Bologna, Italy)

Artefact Evaluation Committee chair
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Alceste Scalas (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

Artefact Evaluation Committee
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Lorenzo Bacchiani (University of Bologna, Italy)
Manel Barkallah (University of Namur, Belgium)
Christian Bartolo Burlò (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
Luca Di Stefano (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Marco Giunti (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
Stefano Mariani (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Florian Rademacher (IDiAL Institute, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany)
Aniqa Rehman (University of Camerino, Italy)
Neea Rusch (Augusta University, US)
Larisa Safina (Inria - Lille Nord Europe, France)

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)
Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Eva Kühn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Michele Loreti (Università di Camerino, Italy)
Mieke Massink (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy) - chair
José Proença (CISTER, ISEP, Portugal)
Rosario Pugliese (Università di Firenze, Italy)
Hanne Riis Nielson (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
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)