[ Our apologies for multiple copies. ] ====================================================================== 1st International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures (Foclasa 2002) August 24, 2002, Brno, Czech Republic Workshop affiliated to CONCUR'2002, 20 - 23 August 2002. http://www.fi.muni.cz/concur2002/Foclasa ====================================================================== SCOPE AND TOPICS Modern information systems rely more and more on combining concurrent, distributed, mobile and heterogenous components. This move from old systems, typically conceived in isolation, induces the need for new languages and software architectures. In particular, coordination languages have been proposed to cleanly separate computational aspects and communication. On the other hand, software architects face the problem of specifying and reasoning on non-functional requirements. All these issues are widely perceived as fundamental to improve software productivity, enhance maintainability, advocate modularity, promote reusability, and lead to systems more tractable and more amenable to verification and global analysis. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the foundations of component-based computing, coordination, and software architectures. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o Theoretical models for coordination (component composition, concurrency, dynamic aspects of coordination, semantics, expressiveness); o Specification, refinement, and analysis of software archi- tectures (patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties); o Coordination, architectural, and interface definition languages (implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity); o Agent-oriented languages (formal models for interacting agents); o Dynamic software architectures (mobile agents, configuration, reconfiguration); o Modeling of information systems (groupware, internet and the web, workflow management, CSCW and multimedia applications) o Coordination patterns (mobile computing, internet computing); o Tools and environments for the development of coordinated applications SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers describing original work are solicited as contributions to Foclasa. Submitted papers should be limited to 6 000 words, preferrably formatted according to the Fundamenta Informaticae style (available at http://fi.mimuw.edu.pl/submissions.html). They should be emailed as PostScript (PS) or Portable Document Format (PDF) files to jmj@info.fundp.ac.be. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published as a technical report of the Institute of Informatics at the University of Namur, and will be available at the workshop. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Funda- menta Informaticae journal, with February 2003 as expected publi- cation time. IMPORTANT DATES: o May 25, 2002: Submission deadline. o June 30, 2002: Notification of acceptance. o August 1, 2002: Final version. o August 24, 2002: Meeting Date. LOCATION The workshop will be held in Brno in August 2002. It is a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2002. For venue and registration see the CONCUR web page at http://www.fi.muni.cz/concur2002/ WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS o Antonio Brogi (University of Pisa, Italy) o Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium) PROGRAMME COMITTEE: o Antonio Brogi (University of Pisa, Italy) - Co-chair o Rocco De Nicola (University of Firenze, Italy) o Jos Luiz Fiadeiro (University of Lisbon, Portugal) o Roberto Gorrieri (Univerity of Bologna, Italy) o Paola Inverardi (Univerity L'Aquila, Italy) o Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium) - Co-chair o Joost Kok (University of Leiden, The Netherlands) o Antonio Porto (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)