2nd Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE'09) Structured Interactions Satellite workshop of CONCUR 2009 31st of August 2009 Bologna, Italy Homepage: http://ice09.dimi.uniud.it/ -- Invited Speakers -- - Farhad Arbab (CWI) - Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University) Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is intended as a series of international scientific meetings oriented to researchers in various fields of theoretical computer science. The timeliness and novelty of these events relies both on the variety of the topics that will be treated on each event and on the adopted paper selection mechanism. Every experience will focus on a different specific topic which affects several areas of computer science. A thorough scientific debate among PC and authors of submitted papers will parallel the reviewing process. After the paper selection phase, papers will be published on the web and the discussion will be extended to perspective participants. -- Scope of ICE'09 -- The general scope is to include theoretical and applied aspects of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among actors of concurrent/distributed systems. The workshop intends to attract researchers interested in models, verification, tools, and programming primitives concerning such structured interactions. The theme of ICE09 will be structured interactions by which we mean the class of synchronisations that go beyond the "simple" point-to-point synchronisations. A few examples of such structured interactions are: multicast or broadcast synchronisations, even-notification based interactions, time dependent interactions, distributed transactions, stateless/statefull interactions. Not only structured interactions have been studied "in isolation", but researchers have also considered mutual relations and theoretical frameworks featuring uniform representations and/or co-existence of different structured interactions. As a matter of fact, different structured interactions are typically required when specifying views of a distributed system or when considering it at different levels of abstraction. For instance, multicast or broadcast interactions (desirable at a high level of abstraction) have to be mapped on more basic kind of interactions like point-to-point asynchronous synchronisations. The interest in such interactions is growing due to the recent trend in providing abstractions that allow one to master the complexity of distributed systems. Remarkable research lines in this area are the use of types or behavioural equivalences to guarantee properties of concurrent/distributed systems (eg., progress properties) or the use of model-driven approaches in order to achieve correctness "by construction" (eg., graceful termination), or else the relations among interactions, mobility and spatial aspects (eg., bigraphs). -- Topics -- Topics of interest include, but shall not be limited to: - models, logic and types for structured interactions; - expressiveness results; - timed and hybrid interactions; - verification, analysis and tools; - programming primitives for structured interactions; - structured interactions as coordination mechanisms; - structured interactions inspired by emerging computational models (systems biology, quantum computing, etc.). -- Selection Procedure -- The workshop proposes an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive discussion amongst authors and PC members. As shown by the past edition of ICE, this considerably improves the quality of the papers, the reviews and the discussion during the workshop. We continue by detailing the selection procedure. After the submission deadline expires, each PC member selects a number of suitable papers to review before the start of the discussion phase. At the beginning of the discussion, each submitted paper is published on a Wiki and associated with a discussion forum whose access will be restricted to the authors and to all the PC members. The latter will be able to post comments/questions which the authors will reply to (authors will obviously have access only to forums associated with their own papers). Thus, the discussion on forums (and hence the reviewing process of papers) may be enhanced by the additional comments of interested PC members. -- The Public Wiki -- After the notification, the accepted papers will be published on a public forum, the rationale being to initiate public discussions that will trigger and stimulate the scientific debate of the workshop. We argue that this will drive the workshop discussions and let perspective participants to interact with each other well in advance with respect to the modus operandi of more traditional events. -- Submission Guidelines -- Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted to another conference/workshops with refereed proceedings. Programme Committee members, barring the co-chairs, may (and indeed are encouraged) to contribute. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. There is no specific page limit, but authors should strive for brevity. Details of the submission mechanism will follow in due course. -- Dissemination -- The ICE09 post-proceeding will be published in a novel series: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. -- Important Dates -- - Abstract submission: 29 May 2009 - Submission deadline: 5 June 2009 - Reviews due: 26 June 2009 - Discussion: from 29 June to 11 July 2009 - Notification to authors: 13 July 2009 - Workshop: 31 August 2009 -- Program Committee -- * Simon Bliudze (CEA LIST, France) * Eduardo Bonelli (LIFIA, University of LaPlata, Argentina) * Andrea Bracciali (University of Pisa, Italy) * Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) * Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Bob Coecke (Oxford University, UK) * Vincent Danos (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Erik de Vink (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) * Georgios Fainekos (NEC Laboratories, USA) * Goran Frehse (Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1 - Verimag,France) * Carlo A. Furia (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland) * Fabio Gadducci (University of Pisa, Italy) * Ichiro Hasuo (Kyoto University, Japan) * Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Daniel Hirschkoff (ENS, Lyon, France) * Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, Italy) * Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) * Dimitris Mostrous (Imperial College, London, UK) * Madhavan Mukund (Chennai mathematical Institute, India) * Dejan Nickovic (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) * Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) * Hugo Torres Vieira (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) * Angelo Troina (University of Torino, Italy) * Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College, London, UK) * Herbert Wiklicky (Imperial College, London, UK) -- ICEcreamers -- - Filippo Bonchi (CWI) - Davide Grohmann (Universita' di Udine) - Paola Spoletini (Politecnico di Milano) - Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester) ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. 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