[CFP] ACM SAC Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Architectures - Call for Paper

[Alessandro Ricci]

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies]

CfP: ACM SAC Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and  
Architectures

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS
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        Coordination Models, Languages and Architectures
	
    Special Track of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing  
(SAC’07)
        March 11 – 15, 2007, Seoul, Korea SAC 2007


           http://conf.deis-ce.unibo.it/sac/sac2007

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IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: 8 September 2006
* Author notification: 16 October 2006
* Camera ready: 30 October 2006

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AIMS & SCOPE

Building on the success of the eight previous editions (1998-2006), a  
special track on coordination models, languages and applications will  
be held at SAC 2007. 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 Cooperative Information Systems,  
Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and Internet Technologies.

On the one side, after more than a decade of research developments in  
academic contexts, coordination technology is getting more and more  
attention in industrial contexts, as a key element for engineering  
complex distributed systems. Accordingly, one of the themes of 2007  
edition will be concerned on “Coordination Models, Languages and  
Technologies a decade later: impact on real-world industrial  
applications and systems”.

On the other side, coordination paradigm is getting more and more a  
momentum in state-of-the-art engineering paradigm such as multi-agent  
systems and service-oriented architectures: in the first case,  
coordination abstractions or artifacts are more and more perceived as  
essential to design and support the working activities of agent  
societies; in the latter case, service coordination, orchestration,  
choreography are going to be essential aspects of next generations of  
WS-based systems.

Accordingly, major topics of interest will include this year the  
following ones:

- Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques
- Applications of coordination technologies
- Industry point of view: experiences, applications, open issues
- Internet-and Web-based coordinated systems
- Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile and  
intelligent agents
- 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
- Emergent Coordination: Swam based, 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)
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PROCEEDINGS AND POST-PROCEEDINGS

Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models,  
Languages and Applications will be published by ACM both in the SAC  
2007 proceedings and in the Digital Library.

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PAPER SUBMISSION

Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will  
be considered.This includes three categories of submissions: 1)  
original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing  
applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business,  
government, education and industry; and 3) reports of successful  
technology transfer to new problem domains. Each submitted paper will  
be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least  
three referees. The accepted papers in all categories will be  
published in the ACM SAC 2007 proceedings.
Format Submit your paper electronically in either PDF or postscript  
format. Please note: neither hardcopy nor fax submissions will be  
accepted. Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on  
common paper formats like letter and DIN A4. Please use a Postscript  
previewer such as Ghostview to check the portability of Postscript  
documents. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in  
the body of the paper, and self reference should be in the third  
person. This is to facilitate blind review. The body of the paper  
should not exceed 4,000 words.

Accepted full papers should not exceed 5 pages in a double column  
format (with the option, at additional expense, to add three more  
pages). Accepted poster papers will be published as extended 2-page  
abstracts in the symposium proceedings. All submissions must be  
received by 8 September 2006
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Submission is entirely automated by an eCMS paper management tool,   
available at
the main SAC Web Site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2007/.  
Authors must first register their own account by obtaining a  
password, and then follow the instructions.

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PROGRAM CHAIRMEN

Bernhard Angerer, GigaSpaces.com
mailto: bernard at gigaspaces.com
http://www.gigaspaces.com

Alessandro Ricci, DEIS, Università di Bologna, Cesena, Italy
mailto: aricci at deis.unibo.it
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/~ari

Michael Ignaz Schumacher, EPFL IC IIF LIA, Lausanne, Switzerland
mailto: michael.schumacher at epfl.ch
http://liawww.epfl.ch/People/schumach/
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