[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] 2nd CFP: ACM SAC Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Architectures ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Special Track of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC08) March 16 - 20, 2008, Fortaleza, Brazil http://ii.hevs.ch/sac2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: 7 September 2007 * Author notification: 15 October 2007 * Camera ready: 30 October 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS & SCOPE Building on the success of the nine previous editions (1998-2007), a special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC 2008. 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 workflow systems, cooperative information systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and internet technologies. After more than a decade of research, the coordination paradigm is gaining increased momentum in state-of-the-art engineering paradigms such as multi-agent systems and service-oriented architectures: in the first case, coordination abstractions are perceived as essential to design and support the working activities of agent societies; in the latter case, service coordination, orchestration, and choreography are going to be essential aspects of the next generations of systems based on Web services. The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications takes a deliberately a broad view of what constitutes coordination. Accordingly, major topics of interest this year will include: - Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques - Applications of coordination technologies - Industrial points of view: experiences, applications, open issues - Internet- and Web-based coordinated systems - Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile agents, intelligent agents, and agent-based simulations - 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) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2008 proceedings and in the Digital Library. Selected papers will be published in a Journal's special issue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2008 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 such as 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 7 September 2007 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submission is entirely automated by an eCMS paper management tool, which is available from the main SAC Web Site: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/. Authors must first register their own account by obtaining a password, and then follow the instructions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM CHAIRMEN Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) & University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Alan Wood, University of York, UK Email contact : cm.sac2008@gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Arbab Farhad, CWI & Leiden University, Netherlands Bonsangue Marcello, Leiden University, Netherlands Bortenschlager Manfred, Salzburg Research, Austria Chaudron Michel, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands de Nicola Rocco, University of Florence, Italy Ferrari Gianluigi, University of Pisa, Italy Fiadeiro Jose, University of Leicester, UK Harrison-Broninski Keith, Role Modellers Ltd, UK Jacob Jeremy, University of York, UK Lichtner Kurt, University of Waterloo, Canada Muccini Henry, University of l'Aquila, Italy Murphy Amy, University of Lugano, Switzerland Norton Barry, University of Sheffield, UK Omicini Andrea, University of Bologna, Italy Oriol Manuel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Pallota Vincenzo, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Petta Paolo, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Picco Gian Pietro, University of Trento, Italy Razvan Popescu, University of Pisa, Italy Andries Stam, Leiden University, Netherlands Porto Antonio, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Pugliese, Rosario, University of Florence, Italy Rossi Davide, Scienze dell'Informazione, Bologna, Italy Tahara Yasuyuki, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Talcott Carolyn, SRI International, USA Wells George, Rhodes University, South Africa Wiklicky Herbert, Imperial College London, UK Wojciechowski Pawel T., Poznan University of Technology, Poland Zambonelli Franco, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy