Advanced apologies in case you receive more than one copy of this.--fa ======================================================================== Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers COORDINATION '99 Third International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages Amsterdam, The Netherlands 26-28 April 1999 http://www.cs.unibo.it/~coord99/ The last decade has seen the emergence of a class of models and languages variously termed "coordination languages", "configuration languages", "architectural description languages", and "agent-oriented programming languages". These formalisms provide a clean separation between individual software components and their interaction within the overall software organization. This separation makes large applications more tractable, supports global analysis, and enhances reuse of software. Building on the success of COORDINATION '96 and '97, whose proceedings were published as Springer Verlag LNCS 1061 and LNCS 1282, this conference provides a forum for the growing community of researchers interested in models, languages, and implementation techniques for coordination. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic aspects of coordination. * Specification, refinement, and analysis of software architectures: patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties. * Coordination, architectural, and interface definition languages: implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity. * Agent-oriented languages: formal models for interacting agents. * Dynamic software architectures: mobile agents, configuration, reconfiguration. * Tools and environments for the development of coordinated applications: integration within the development process. * Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and coordination models, case studies. Submission Instructions Authors are invited to send 6 copies of a full paper (in English, up to 6000 words, preferably double-sided) at the postal address mentioned below. Please use the LNCS style, which is described at the following site. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Full papers must be received no later than Nov 25 1998. Electronic submissions will not be considered. Simultaneous or similar submissions to other conferences or journals is not allowed. An abstract of no more than 250 words must be sent by email in ASCII format to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Included in the email must be the names and affiliations of all authors, and the full address information (address, phone, fax, email) of one contact author. The email abstract must be received by Nov 18 1998. Submissions should explicitly state their contribution and their relevance to the theme of the conference. Other criteria for selection will be originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. Conference Location Coordination '99 will be hosted by CWI in Amsterdam, NL. Information on CWI and Amsterdam are available at the following sites. http://www.cwi.nl http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/amsterdam.html http://www.cwi.nl/~behr/PanoramaUK/Panorama.html IMPORTANT DATES Pre-submission abstracts (email): Nov 18 1998 Full paper submissions (post): Nov 25 1998 Notification of acceptance: Jan 25 1999 Camera-ready version: Feb 25 1999 Address submissions to: Prof. P. Ciancarini Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione Universita' di Bologna Mura Anteo Zamboni, 7 40127 Bologna - Italy Program co-chairs: Paolo Ciancarini (Italy) and Alexander Wolf (USA) Organizing Chairs: Farhad Arbab (NL) and Joost Kok (NL) Program Committee: Farhad Arbab (CWI/NL) Maarten Boasson (Signaal/NL) Nick Carriero (Yale/USA) Georges Gonthier (INRIA/F) Roberto Gorrieri (Bologna/Italy) Chris Hankin (IC/UK) Paola Inverardi (L'Aquila/Italy) Valerie Issarny (IRISA/F) Suresh Jagannathan (NEC/USA) Joost Kok (U.Leiden/NL) Jeff Kramer (IC/UK) Jose Meseguer (SRI/USA) Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (Aachen/D) Antonio Porto (U.Lisbon/P) G. Catalin Roman (S. Louis/USA) Richard Taylor (UCI/USA) Robert Tolksdorf (TUBerlin/D) Mike Woolridge (QMC/UK) ========================================================================