COORDINATION 1999

 Call for Papers - Last Call
COORDINATION '99
Third International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
26-28 April 1999

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 6 000 words, preferably double-sided,
please use LNCS 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 coo...@cs.unibo.it.
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,
one week before the full papers are due.

Selection: 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: http://www.cwi.nl
Information on Amsterdam:
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/amsterdam.html
http://www.cwi.nl/~behr/PanoramaUK/Panorama.html

A copy of this CfP can be found at http://www.cs.unibo.it/~coord99/.

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

Address to send abstracts by e-mail: coo...@cs.unibo.it

Address to send submissions:

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 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)
Dewayne Perry (Bell Labs/USA)
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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Prof. Paolo Ciancarini. Dept. Scienze dell'Informazione - Univ. of Bologna.
Mura Anteo Zamboni , 7 - 40127 Bologna - Italy.
tel: +39 051 354506 GSM: +39 0339 2543139 fax: +39 051 354510
e-mail: cianc...@cs.unibo.it http://www.cs.unibo.it/~cianca/