CM @ SAC 2011

Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Special Track of the 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

TaiChung, Taiwan, 23/03/2011. Hosted by SAC 2011.

Building on the success of the twelfth previous editions (1998-2010), a special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC 2011. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of models, formalisms and mechanisms to describe concurrent and distributed computations and systems based on the concept of coordination. The purpose of a coordination model is to enable the integration of a number of, possibly heterogeneous, components (processes, objects, agents) in such a way that the resulting ensemble can execute as a whole, forming a software system with desired characteristics and functionalities which possibly takes advantage of parallel and distributed systems. The coordination paradigm is closely related to other contemporary software engineering approaches such as multi-agent systems, service-oriented architectures, component-based systems and related middleware platforms. Furthermore, the concept of coordination exists in many other Computer Science areas such as workflow systems, cooperative information systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and internet technologies. After more than a decade of research, the coordination paradigm is gaining increased momentum in state-of-the-art engineering paradigms such as multi-agent systems and service-oriented architectures: in the first case, coordination abstractions are perceived as essential to design and support the working activities of agent societies; in the latter case, service coordination, orchestration, and choreography are going to be essential aspects of the next generations of systems based on Web services. The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications takes a deliberately broad view of what constitutes coordination.

Topics of Interest

Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques
Applications of coordination technologies
Industrial points of view: experiences, applications, open issues
Internet- and Web-based coordinated systems
Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations
Coordination in Service-oriented architectures and Web Services
Languages for service description and composition
Models, frameworks and tools for Group Decision Making
Modern Workflow Management Systems and Case-Handling
Coordination in Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Software architectures and software engineering techniques
Configuration and Architecture Description Languages
Coordination Middleware and Infrastructures
Coordination in GRID systems
Self-Organization-Based Approaches to Coordination such as Those Based on Swarm and Stigmergy
Coordination technologies, systems and infrastructures
Relationship with other computational models such as object oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint), programming or their extensions with coordination capabilities
Formal aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification)