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.
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.
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/.
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.
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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