Call for Papers

Contents 1 About the Conference 2 Topics of Interest: 3 Invited Speaker 4 Submission Guidelines 5 Important Dates 6 Committees 6.1 DisCoTec General Chair 6.2 PC Chairs 6.3 Steering Committee 6.4 Program Committee

About the Conference

The 12th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION) is part of the IFIP federated event on Distributed Computing Techniques (DisCoTec), together with the 10th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) and the IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems (FMOODS & FORTE). The DisCoTec conferences jointly cover the complete spectrum of distributed computing subjects ranging from theoretical foundations to formal specification techniques to practical considerations. The event is hosted by the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam.

Topics of Interest:

COORDINATION 2010 topics of interest include:

• Distributed and concurrent programming
• multicore programming
• stream programming
• data parallel programming
• event-driven programming
• web programming
• Foundations of distributed and concurrent interaction
• models for processes
• service composition and orchestration
• workflow management
• data query
• tuple spaces
• Specification, verification, and types
• modelling and analysis of types and properties related to security
• dependability
• resource consumption
• component conformance for concurrent and distributed systems
• High-level optimisations
• program transformations for performance enhancement
• runtime load balancing techniques
• static and dynamic resource management
• Quality of service
• fault-tolerant programming models and runtime support
• models with responsiveness guarantees
• Distributed software management
• component and module systems for distributed software
• dynamic software evolution and update technologies
• configuration and deployment architectures
• System support for programming models
• P2P frameworks, mobile ad-hoc networks
• sensor networks
• publish-subscribe systems
• event processing
• Case studies
• application of novel distributed and concurrent techniques in business process modelling
• e-commerce
• factory automation
• collaboration
• command and control

Invited Speaker

Details to be provided.

Submission Guidelines

The COORDINATION 2010 conference solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted electronically as postscript or PDF, using the SPRINGER LNCS style. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length. Each paper will undergo a thorough process of review and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference. Submission implies the acceptance that at least one author will attend the conference if the paper is accepted.

Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of The Science of Computer Programming journal.

Important Dates

   Abstract submission: February 8, 2010
   Paper submission: February, 12 2010
   Author notification: March 19, 2010
   Camera-ready version: April 2, 2010
   Early registration: May 17, 2010
   Online registration: June 4, 2010
   Conferences: June 7-9, 2010
   Co-located events: June 10, 2010

There will be NO DEADLINE EXTENSION.

Committees

DisCoTec General Chair

Frank S. de Boer

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands

PC Chairs

Dave Clarke	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Gul Agha	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Steering Committee

Rocco De Nicola (chair)	University of Florence, Italy
Farhad Arbab	CWI, The Netherlands
Jan Vitek	Purdue University, USA
Carolyn Talcott	SRI, USA
Herbert Wiklicky	Imperial College London, GB
Chris Hankin	Imperial College London, GB
Doug Lea	State University of New York at Oswego, USA
Gruia-Catalin Roman	Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
Gianluigi Zavattaro	University of Bologna, Italy
Jean-Marie Jacquet	University of Namur, Belgium
Vasco T. Vasconcelos	University of Lisbon, Portugal
Amy L. Murphy	ITC-IRST, IT & University of Lugano, Switzerland
John Field	IBM Research, USA

Program Committee

Dave Clarke	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Gul Agha	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Mirko Viroli	Università di Bologna, Italy
Shangping Ren	Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Marjan Sirjani	Reykjavik University, Iceland
Patrick Eugster	Purdue University, USA
Carolyn Talcott	SRI, USA
Jean-Marie Jacquet	University of Namur, Belgium
Wolfgang de Meuter	Vrij Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Carlos Canal	Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Vasco T. Vasconcelos	University of Lisbon, Portugal
Rocco De Nicola	University of Florence, Italy
Susan Eisenbach	Imperial College London, GB
Roberto Bruni	University of Pisa, Italy
Amy L. Murphy	ITC-IRST, IT & University of Lugano, Switzerland
John Field	IBM Research, USA
MohammadReza Mousavi	Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands