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The 10th International Workshop on the
Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures (FOCLASA 2011)
A Satellite Workshop of CONCUR 2011
Aachen (Germany), September 10, 2011
http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/
Submission Deadline: June 3rd, 2011
(Abstract: May 27th, 2011)
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Abstract
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Computation nowadays is becoming inherently concurrent, either because of
characteristics of the hardware (with multicore processors becoming
omnipresent) or due to the ubiquitous presence of distributed systems
(incarnated in the Internet). Computational systems are therefore typically
distributed, concurrent, mobile, and often involve composition of heterogeneous
components.
To specify and reason about such systems and go beyond the functional
correctness proofs, e.g., by supporting reusability and improving
maintainability, approaches such as coordination languages and software
architecture are recognised as fundamental.
The goal of the FOCLASA workshop is to put together researchers and
practitioners of the aforementioned fields, to share and identify common
problems, and to devise general solutions in the context of coordination
languages and software architectures.
Topics of interest
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Theoretical models (of coordination, of component composition, of
open, concurrent, and distributed systems)
* Specification, refinement, and analysis of software systems
(architectures, patterns and styles, verification of functional and
non-functional properties via logics or types)
* Languages for interaction, coordination, architectures, and interface
definition (syntax and semantics, implementation, usability, domain-specific
languages)
* Dynamic software architectures (mobile agents,
self-organizing/adaptive/reconfigurable systems)
* Tools and environments for the development of applications.
In particular, practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas
are solicited as well:
* Service-Oriented computing
* Multi-agent systems
* Peer-to-peer systems
* Grid computing
* Component-based systems
Invited Talk
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Joe Armstrong, Ericsson, Sweden.
Submissions
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FOCLASA 2011 is a satellite workshop of the 22nd International Conference on
Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2011). It provides a venue where researchers and
practitioners on the topics given below can meet, exchange ideas and problems,
identify some of the key and fundamental issues related to coordination
languages and software architecture, and explore together and disseminate
solutions.
Submissions must describe authors' original research work and their
results. Description of work-in-progress with concrete results is also
encouraged. The contributions should not exceed 15 pages formatted according to
the style of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
(EPTCS), and should be submitted as Portable Document Format (PDF) files using
the EasyChair submission site: click here.
Important Dates
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Abstract submission: May 27th, 2011
Paper submission: June 3rd, 2011
Notification: July 4th, 2011
Final version due: July 18th, 2011
Workshop: September 10th, 2011
Submitting an abstract does not put any obligation on the authors to submit
a full paper. Abstracts without an accompanying full paper by the paper
submission deadline are automatically considered withdrawn; the authors are,
however, encouraged to explicitly withdraw their abstract, if they decide not
to submit a full paper.
All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee who
will make a selection among the submissions based on the novelty, soundness and
applicability of the presented ideas and results. Concurrent submission to
other venues (conferences, workshops or journal) and submission of papers under
consideration elsewhere are not allowed. A printed version of the proceedings
will be distributed among participants during the workshop. The proceedings of
the workshop will be published as a volume in the Electronic Proceedings in
Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series.
Participants will give a presentation of their papers in twenty minutes,
followed by a ten-minute round of questions and discussion on participants'
work.
Following the tradition of the past edition, a special issue of an
international scientific journal will be devoted to FOCLASA 2011. Selected
participants will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers
after the workshop. These extended versions will be reviewed by an
international program committee, which will decide on their final publication
on the special issue. In the last few editions of FOCLASA, a special issue of
Science of Computer Programming has been dedicated to this workshop and we plan
to devote a special issue of the same journal to FOCLASA 2011.
Program Committee Chairs
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MohammadReza Mousavi
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
António Ravara
New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Program Committee
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Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal
Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
Carlos Canal, University of Málaga, Spain
Vittorio Cortellessa, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Gregor Goessler, INRIA Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, France
Ludovic Henrio, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Paola Inverardi, Università dell'Aquila, Italy
MohammadReza Mousavi, Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands
Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, The Netherlands
António Ravara, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Gwen Salaün, Grenoble INP - INRIA - LIG, France
Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA
Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK
Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy
