COORDINATION 2006

The 8th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, Coordination 2006 is part of a set of federated conferences named DisCoTec 2006, held in Bologna in June 2006. The conference was born in 1996, as a forum for researchers working on programming models, formalisms, and platforms for describing or supporting concurrent and distributed computations. Contemporary information systems increasingly rely on combining concurrent and distributed, and now also mobile, reconfigurable and heterogeneous components. New models, architectures, lan- guages, and verification techniques are necessary to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today’s software industry. Coordination languages have emerged as a successful approach, in that they provide abstractions that cleanly separate behavior from communication, thereby supporting modular design, sim- plifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development. Research on coordination models and languages is still playing a crucial role in addressing the technological concerns of widely distributed applications and services.