[ecoop-info] FOCLASA'08 Call For Papers

[Marjan Sirjani]

                           Call for Papers

                    7th International Workshop on the

     Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures


                              FOCLASA 2008



                  A Satellite Workshop of ICALP'08
                        Reykjavik, Iceland
                         July 13th, 2008




                       http://foclasa08.lcc.uma.es



Abstract

A number of hot research topics are currently sharing the common problem
of combining concurrent, distributed, mobile and heterogenous components,
trying to harness the intrinsic complexity of the resulting systems. These
include coordination, peer-to-peer systems, grid computing, Web services,
multi-agent systems, and component-based systems.

Coordination languages and software achitectures are recognised as
fundamental approaches to tackle this issue, improving software
productivity, enhancing maintainability, advocating modularity, promoting
reusability, and leading to systems more tractable and more amenable to
verification and global analysis.

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 contexts of
coordination languages and software architectures.




Important dates

abstract submission: April, 14th, 2008
paper submission: April, 21st, 2008
notification: June, 13th, 2008
final version due: June, 27th, 2008
workshop: July, 13th, 2008


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Theoretical models (coordination, component and service composition,
concurrency, semantics, expressiveness)

- Specification, refinement, and analysis of software systems
(architectures, patterns and styles, verification of functional and
non-functional properties)

- Languages for interaction, coordination, architectures, and interface
definition (implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity)

- 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:

* Web Services
* Multi-agent systems
* Peer-to-peer systems
* Grid computing
* Component- based systems




Call for Papers

FOCLASA 2008 is a satellite workshop of the 35th International Colloquium
on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP'08). The workshop will be
held on July 13th, 2008. The workshop tries to provide a venue where
researchers and practitioners on the topics above 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.

FOCLASA 2008 invites the submission of technical papers in any of the
topics of interest and areas listed below. Submissions must describe
authors' original research work and their results. Description of
work-in-progress is also encouraged. The contributions should not exceed
15 pages formatted according to the style of the Electronic Notes on
Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS), and should be submitted as
PostScript (PS) or Portable Document Format (PDF) files via Easychair
using the submission link in the workshop site.

All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee
that will select them for presentation in the workshop. Selected papers
will be available through the workshop website, and a printed version of
the proceedings will be distributed among participants during the
workshop. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in Electronic
Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS).

Participants will make a presentation of their papers (about twenty or
twenty five minutes maximum), followed by a five to ten minutes round of
questions and discussion on participants' work. The workshop will also
include a closing panel in which several issues related to the topics of
the workshop and some issues raised during the workshop will be discussed.
The Panel Chair will invite the panelists and moderate the debate.

The publication of a special issue on FOCLASA 2008 in an international
scientific journal is also being prepared. 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. Previous editions of FOCLASA have been published on Fundamenta
Informaticae and Science of Computer Programming.




Programme Committee

	Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
	Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal
	Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
	Carlos Canal, University of Málaga, Spain
	Vittorio Cortellessa, University of L'Aquila, Italy
	Atsushi Igarashi, University of Kyoto, Japan
	Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium
	Nickolas Kavantzas, Oracle, USA
	Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA
	Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
	John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
	George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
	Ernesto Pimentel, University of Málaga, Spain
	Pascal Poizat, ARLES Project-team, INRIA, Université d'Evry, France
        Julian Rathke, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
	António Ravara, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
	Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
	Gwen Salaün, University of Málaga, Spain
	Marjan Sirjani, University of Tehran, Iran
        Carolyn Talcott, SRI International
	Miguel Valero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
	Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy
	Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium


Steering Committee

        Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
	Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium
	Ernesto Pimentel, University of Málaga, Spain
	Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy



Organizing Committee

          Carlos Canal
          Universidad de M=E1laga, Spain
          Web: http://www.lcc.uma.es/~canal

          Pascal Poizat
          INRIA Rocquencourt
          Projet ARLES
          Web: http://www.ibisc.univ-evry.fr/~poizat

          Marjan Sirjani
	  University of Tehran, Iran
	  Web: http://ece.ut.ac.ir/msirjani