PDPTA'02

Component-based software  is likely to be the  most promising approach to  making  distributed  systems  and Internet  applications  fit  the requirements   of  the   new   information-based  work   organization. Component-based software  encompasses many disciplines  and application domains,  such  as  groupware,  distributed  object-oriented  software development, middleware, multimedia, CSCW, and distributed simulation. The focus  of this session is on component-based in special coordination issues that arise in these systems.  Models, languages, and applications  for both architectural and behavioral aspects of systems are of special concern.  

The  purpose of  this session  is  to bring  together researchers  and practitioners working on component-based computing and coordination in the diverse disciplines this field encompasses. The session serves as a forum to enable exchange of experience between academia  and industry,  as  well as  between  researchers working  on different aspects of coordination and component-based computing.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• In Coordination:
  • group communication and inter-agents cooperation protocols.
  • Theoretical  aspects  and  foundations  for  coordination: semantics,  verification,   component  composition,  dynamic aspects of coordination.
  • Functional and non-functional properties of coordination.
  • Formal   and  semi-formal   techniques   for  coordination description and analysis.
  • Modeling of  Information Systems (Groupware,  Internet and the Web, workflow management, CSCW and multimedia
    applications)
  • Coordination,  architectural,   and  interface  definition languages: implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity.
  • Agent-oriented  languages: formal  models  for interacting agents.
  • Coordination   Patterns    (Mobile   Computing,   Internet Computing).
  • Tools and environments  for the development of coordinated applications: integration within the development process.
  • Dynamic   architecture   management  for   multi-component applications
  • Industrial   relevance  of   coordination   and   software architectures:  programming  in  the large,  domain-specific software   architectures  and   coordination   models,  case studies, performance.
•  In Component-based computing:
  • design methods for component frameworks
  • interoperation among component frameworks (coordination)
  • functional and non-functional properties that can or that cannot be established by a component system architecture based on (tiered) component frameworks
  • use of selected component frameworks to reduce the set of possible components in a market setting
  • component-oriented systems
  • domain-specific standards for component interoperability
  • dynamic changes in the configuration (set of components in a system): how can components be added, replaced and removed and how can other components reconfigure themselves to cope with this
  • adaptation of components and composition of frameworks
  • programming language support for COC and component frameworks in particular
  • performance/efficiency of component-oriented implementations and effects of component frameworks introducing a level of indirection
  • impact of businesses on components and vice versa, packaging and distribution of components and component frameworks
  • criticism of the suggested component framework approach