CfP: Coordination Models, Languages and Applications - CM track at ACM SAC 2013

Jose Luis Fernandez Marquez fernandez at iiia.csic.es
Do Jun 21 17:30:02 CEST 2012


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                                    Coordination Models, Languages and 
Applications

                         Special Track of the 28th ACM Symposium on 
Applied Computing (SAC'13)

http://sac2013.apice.unibo.it/

                                                  March 18 - 22, 2013

                         Institute of Engineering of the Polytechnic 
Institute of Coimbra (ISEC-IPC)

                                                    Coimbra, Portugal
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   Building on the success of the fourteenth previous editions 
(1998-2012), a special track on coordination models,

languages and applications will be held at SAC 2013. 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, services) in such 
a way that the resulting ensemble can execute

as a whole, forming a distributed software system with desired 
characteristics and functionalities. This is done

in terms of coordination abstractions, languages, algorithms, 
mechanisms, and middleware specifically focused on the

management of component interaction.

   The coordination paradigm crosscuts a number of contemporary software 
engineering approaches and fields, which we

aim to cross-fertilize and bring contribution to, including in 
particular: multi-agent systems, self-adaptative and

self-organising systems, service-oriented architectures, component-based 
systems, and all related middleware platforms.

The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications 
takes a deliberately broad view of what constitutes

coordination. Accordingly, major topics of interest this year will include:

     - Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques

     - Applications

     - Internet, Web, and pervasive computing systems coordination

     - Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile agents, 
intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations

     - Languages for service description and composition

     - Models, frameworks and tools for Group Decision Making

     - All aspects related to Cooperative Information Systems (e.g. 
workflow management, CSCW)

     - Software architectures and software engineering techniques

     - Configuration and Architecture Description Languages

     - Middleware platforms

     - Self-organising, self-adaptive and nature-inspired coordination 
approaches

     - 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)

     - Coordination models and specification in Service-Oriented 
Architectures, Web Service technologies (orchestration,

        choreography, etc), and Pervasive Computing

   We also welcome papers on practical systems or novel applications 
that are aimed at reaching coordination between

  components and services, especially if those systems and novel 
applications challenge existing ideas and models.

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    Important Dates
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     *** Sept 21, 2012: Paper submission  ***

     Nov 10, 2012: Author notification

     Nov 30, 2012: Camera-Ready Copy

     March 18-22, 2013: Conference

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    Program Co-Chairs
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Mirko Viroli

     Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita' di Bologna

http://www.ingce.unibo.it/~mviroli

     email: mirko.viroli at unibo.it

Gabriella Castelli

     Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia

http://pervasive2.morselli.unimo.it/~gabriella

     email: gabriella.castelli at unimore.it

Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez

     University of Geneva

http://iss.unige.ch/?q=users/fernandez

     email: joseluis.fernandez at unige.ch



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    Program Committee Members
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Farhad Arbab, CWI Amsterdam and Leiden University, Netherlands

Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, USA

Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Dave Clarke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Ferruccio Damiani, University of Torino, Italy

Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Rocco De Nicola, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy

Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews, Scotland

Markus Endler, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz, Austria

Keith Harrison-Broninski, Role Modellers Ltd, UK

Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA

Manuel Mazzara, Newcastle University, UK

Michael O'Grady, University College Dublin, Ireland

Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy

Manuel Oriol, University of York, UK

Antonio Porto, University of Porto, Portugal

Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy

Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar, IIIA-CSIC, Spain

Davide Rossi, University of Bologna, Italy

Michael Ignaz Schumacher, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Yasuyuki Tahara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, USA

Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Giuseppe Valetto, Drexel University, USA

Daniel Villatoro, Barcelona Digital Technological Center, Spain

Meritxell Vinyals, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain

Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, UK

George Wells, Rhodes University, South Africa

Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College London, UK

Pawel T. Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

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    Proceedings
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Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages 
and Applications will be published

by ACM both in the SAC 2013 proceedings and in the Digital Library.

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    Paper submission and format
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   All papers should represent original and previously unpublished works 
that currently are not under review in

any conference or journal. 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. Only the title should be shown

at the first page without the author's information.

   Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in the ACM 
two-column page format (doc template, pdf template,

latex template). It will be possible to have up to 2 extra pages in the 
proceeding at a charge of $80 per page

(total 8 pages maximum).

   For accepted papers, registration for the conference is required and 
allows accepted papers to be printed in the

conference proceedings. The accepted paper MUST be presented by an 
author or a proxy. This is a requirement for the

paper to be part of the ACM/IEEE digital library.

Submission is entirely automated via the STAR Submission System, which 
is available from the main SAC Web Site:

https://www.softconf.com/d/sac2013/.

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    Poster Sessions
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   Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer 
standards) but were not accepted due to space

limitation can be invited for the poster session. Poster should be not 
longer than 2 pages plus 1 extra page at $80.

The poster session procedures and details will be posted on SAC 2013 
website as soon as they become available.

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    Student research abstracts competition
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   Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts (minimum 
of 2-page and maximum of 4-page) following the

instructions published at SAC 2013 website. Submission of the same 
abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.

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