COCOSS 2010

 Dear Andrea Omicini,

On behalf of the steering committee of the „Coordination in Complex
Software Intensive Systems (COCOSS-2010)", to be held 15-18 February
2010 at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Cracow College, Krakow, Poland, I would
like to invite you to join us on the programme committee. COCOSS-2010 is
a satellite workshop and will be held in conjunction with the 4th
International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive
Systems (CISIS-2010).

The workshop strives for bringing together experts from the fields
Multi-agent Systems, Collaboration, Middleware Architectures, and
Complex Systems from industry and academia to exchange their findings
and advance the field. The preliminary CfP enclosed below shows the
topics which are in the focus of the workshop.

Today's networks and systems are going through a rapid evolution.
Different kinds of systems with different characteristics are emerging
and integrating in heterogeneous networks. The focus of this development
has shifted from developing algorithms to the complexity of structuring
large systems, and furthermore to overcome the additional complexity in
building distributed, concurrent systems. Complex systems highly depend
on software that controls the behavior of individual components and the
interaction between components, and on software which interacts with
other software, systems, devices, sensors and with people. Extremely
complex coordination requirements to keep up effectiveness, performance
and quality of the complex system have to be accomplished. The
production automation domain is a good example for these complexity
issues. Hundreds of software agents representing the functionality of
the underlying production machinery need to cooperate and coordinate
themselves in order to achieve a common high-level business goal, like
an efficient and effective production system. Thus it is important to
provide methods for efficiently and effectively supporting the
communication entities in their design, development, simulation, test,
operation and runtime tasks.

Goals of the COCOSS-2010 workshop are in the scope of the CISIS
conference. They focus on investigating and discussing the many
approaches for collaboration and coordination of autonomous
communication entities in complex software intensive systems. The
workshop intends to put together researchers and practitioners of the
aforementioned fields, to share and identify common problems, and to
devise general solutions.

Topics of interest in the workshop include, but are not restricted to:

a) Complex Systems
  - Use Cases with respect to applications of coordination techniques
  - Lessons Learned, challenges faced, anti-patterns

b) Management of and Coordination in Complex Systems
  - Coordination Patterns
  - Programming abstractions and languages: techniques that support
coordination, collaboration, choreography, and control of distributed
and concurrent interaction
  - Collaboration and negotiation protocols
  - Distributed problem solving
  - Semantics as a means for coordination support

c) Support of Entities in Complex Systems
  - Frameworks and Middleware architectures
  - Autonomous systems
  - Multi-agent systems and architectures
  - Self-adapting and self-healing systems

Workshop Organizer
 
Richard Mordinyi
Vienna University of Technology
Richard.Mordinyi@tuwien.ac.at


Intended Program Comitee Members

Karl M. Göschka
Jean-Marie Jacquet
Jens Knoop
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras
Ronaldo Menezes
Thomas Moser
Rocco De Nicola
Andrea Omicini
Alessandro Ricci
Maite López Sánchez
Carles Sierra
Manuela M. Veloso
Mirko Viroli
Kurt C. Wallnau
Michael Wooldridge
Franco Zambonelli

I hope you will agree to help COCOSS-2010 by serving on the programme
committee and selecting an exciting and strong collection of papers for
our premier workshop. Beyond that, I hope that you might submit a paper
yourself and join us at the conference. I also ask you to distribute the
CfP and encourage your students, colleagues, and industry partners in
the field to contribute a paper. I expect the PC members to help in
achieving a high quality workshop by attracting submissions and by
participating in the review process. The review process itself will be
controlled electronically; there will be no need to travel to Poland to
a PC meeting.

If you feel unable to participate in the PC this year, please recommend
a colleague who has a similarly strong competence in the field. Since
the PC has to be finalized reasonably soon, I would be very glad about
and honoured of your positive (and fast) response. If you have any
questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Looking forward to working with you,

Richard Mordinyi

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Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Richard Mordinyi           E: richard.mordinyi@tuwien.ac.at
Vienna University of Technology            W:
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Inst. of Software Technology & Interactive Systems T: (+431) 58801-18809
Complex Systems Design & Engineering Lab           F: (+431) 58801-18599
Austria, 1040 Wien, Favoritenstrasse 9-11
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