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FOCLASA 2008 — Call for Papers
7th International Workshop on the Foundations of Coordination Languages
and Software Architectures
A satellite workshop of the 35th International Colloquium on Automata,
Languages and Programming (ICALP'08)
Reykjavik (Iceland) — Sunday 13 July 2008
Organising Committee
Carlos Canal University of Málaga, Spain
http://www.lcc.uma.es/~canal
Pascal Poizat INRIA / ARLES Project-team and IBISC FRE 2873 CNRS, France
http://www.ibisc.univ-evry.fr/~poizat
Marjan Sirjani University of Tehran, Iran
http://ece.ut.ac.ir/msirjani
Key dates
Abstract submission 14 April 2008, extended to 21 April 2008
Paper submission 21 April 2008, extended to 28 April 2008
Notification 28 May 2008
Final version due 13 June 2008
Workshop 13 July 2008
Website http://foclasa08.lcc.uma.es/
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ABSTRACT
A number of hot research topics are currently sharing the common problem of
combining concurrent, distributed, mobile and heterogenous components, trying to
harness the intrinsic complexity of the resulting systems. These include
coordination, peer-to-peer systems, grid computing, Web services, multi-agent
systems, and component-based systems.
Coordination languages and software achitectures are recognised as fundamental
approaches to tackle this issue, improving software productivity, enhancing
maintainability, advocating modularity, promoting reusability, and leading to
systems more tractable and more amenable to verification and global analysis.
The goal of the FOCLASA workshop is to put together researchers and
practitioners of the aforementioned fields, to share and identify common
problems, and to devise general solutions in the contexts of coordination
languages and software architectures.
CALL FOR PAPERS
FOCLASA 2008 is a satellite workshop of the 35th International Colloquium on
Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP'08). The workshop will be held on
July 13th, 2008. The workshop tries to provide a venue where researchers and
practitioners on the topics above can meet, exchange ideas and problems,
identify some of the key and fundamental issues related to coordination
languages and software architecture, and explore together and disseminate
solutions.
FOCLASA 2008 invites the submission of technical papers in any of the topics of
interest and areas listed below. Submissions must describe authors' original
research work and their results. Description of work-in-progress is also
encouraged. The contributions should not exceed 15 pages formatted according to
the style of the Electronic Notes on Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS), and
should be submitted as PostScript (PS) or Portable Document Format (PDF) files
using the submission link.
All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee that will
select them for presentation in the workshop. Selected papers will be available
through the workshop website, and a printed version of the proceedings will be
distributed among participants during the workshop. The proceedings of the
workshop will be published in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
(ENTCS).
Participants will make a presentation of their papers (about twenty or twenty
five minutes maximum), followed by a five to ten minutes round of questions and
discussion on participants' work. The workshop will also include a closing panel
in which several issues related to the topics of the workshop and some issues
raised during the workshop will be discussed. The Panel Chair will invite the
panelists and moderate the debate.
The publication of a special issue on FOCLASA 2008 in an international
scientific journal is also being prepared. Selected participants will be invited
to submit an extended version of their papers after the workshop. These extended
versions will be reviewed by an international program committee, which will
decide on their final publication on the special issue. Previous editions of
FOCLASA have been published on Fundamenta Informaticae and Science of Computer
Programming.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Theoretical models (coordination, component and service composition,
concurrency, semantics, expressiveness)
* Specification, refinement, and analysis of software systems (architectures,
patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional
properties)
* Languages for interaction, coordination, architectures, and interface
definition (implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity)
* Dynamic software architectures (mobile agents, self-organizing / adaptive /
reconfigurable systems)
* Tools and environments for the development of applications
In particular, practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas
are solicited as well: Web Services; Multi-agent systems; Peer-to-peer systems;
Grid computing; Component-based systems.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Farhad Arbab CWI, The Netherlands
Luis Barbosa University of Minho, Portugal
Antonio Brogi University of Pisa, Italy
Carlos Canal University of Málaga, Spain
Vittorio Cortellessa University of L'Aquila, Italy
Atsushi Igarashi University of Kyoto, Japan
Jean-Marie Jacquet University of Namur, Belgium
Nickolas Kavantzas Oracle, USA
Nenad Medvidovic University of Southern California, USA
Ronaldo Menezes Florida Institute of Technology, USA
John-Jules Ch. Meyer Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
George Papadopoulos University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Ernesto Pimentel University of Málaga, Spain
Pascal Poizat ARLES Project-team, INRIA, and Université d'Evry, France
Julian Rathke University of Sussex, United Kingdom
António Ravara Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Alessandro Ricci University of Bologna, Italy
Gwen Salaün University of Málaga, Spain
Marjan Sirjani CWI, The Netherlands / University of Tehran, Iran
Carolyn Talcott SRI International
Miguel Valero Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Mirko Viroli University of Bologna, Italy
Danny Weyns Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
STEERING COMMITTEE
Antonio Brogi University of Pisa, Italy
Jean-Marie Jacquet University of Namur, Belgium
Ernesto Pimentel University of Málaga, Spain
Mirko Viroli University of Bologna, Italy
PAST EDITIONS
FOCLASA 2007 — satellite of CONCUR 2007, Lisbon (Portugal)
FOCLASA 2006 — satellite of CONCUR 2006, Bonn (Germany); ENTCS 175(2), 2007
FOCLASA 2005 — satellite of CONCUR 2005, San Francisco (USA); ENTCS 154(1), 2006;
special issue in Science of Computer Programming 66(2), 2007
FOCLASA 2004 — satellite of CONCUR 2004, London (UK); ENTCS 180(2), 2007
FOCLASA 2003 — satellite of CONCUR 2003, Marseille (France); ENTCS 97, 2004;
special issue in Science of Computer Programming 61(2), 2006
FOCLASA 2002 — satellite of CONCUR 2002, Brno (Czech Republic); ENTCS 68(3), 2003;
special issue in Fundamenta Informaticae 73(4), IOS Press, 2006
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Transcribed from the workshop site, which survives only in the Wayback Machine
(captures of 8 January and 17-18 March 2008):
http://web.archive.org/web/20080318044434/http://foclasa08.lcc.uma.es/cfp.html
The extended deadlines come from the chairs' mail of 15 April 2008. Wording is as
published, "achitectures" and "commitee" included. The site's programme page never
went beyond "to appear"; the proceedings are ENTCS 229(2), 2009, with selected
papers in Science of Computer Programming 76(8).