[[ -- Apologies for multiple copies of this message -- ]] COORDINATION 2004 Call for Participation Sixth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages 24-27 February 2004 Pisa, Italy http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004 =============================================================================== Scope of the Conference The need for increasing programming productivity and rapid development of complex systems provides the pragmatic motivation for the development of coordination/orchestration languages and models. The intellectual excitement associated with such endeavours is rooted in the decades-old desire to leverage off increasingly higher levels of abstractions. Coordination-based methods provide a clean separation between individual software components and their interactions within their overall software organisation. Coordination is relevant in design, development, debugging, maintenance, and reuse of all complex concurrent and distributed systems. Specifically, coordination becomes paramount in the context of open systems, systems with mobile entities, and dynamically re-configurable evolving systems. Moreover, coordination models and languages focus on such key issues in Component Based Software Engineering as specification, interaction, and dynamic compositions. More recently, market trends brought on by the commercialisation of the World Wide Web, have fuelled a new level of interest in coordination-based approaches in industry. Applications like BizTalk, standards like the web services' WS-* family, and contending coordination standards like BEPL4WS and WSCI, are all examples of this phenomenon. This interest is opening up new opportunities both to apply coordination-based techniques to a broad class of applications as well as to grapple with potentially new kinds of requirements coming from internet-scale scenarios. The conference provides a forum for the discussion of fundamental principles and important innovations in the definition of coordination models and languages. The preliminary program of the conference can be found at http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004/program.html Conference Location The Sixth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages will be held in Pisa, Italy, at Dipartimento di Informatica, Via F. Buonarroti 2 (sala Gerace). Further information about the conference location may be found at the URL: http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004/location.html Conference Accommodation and Registration Information about accommodation (reserving rooms in hotels specially booked for COORDINATION 2004 attendees) and registration for COORDINATION 2004 and the affiliated workshop (WS-FM 2004) is available at http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004/inforeg.html Program co-chairs Rocco De Nicola (Univ. Firenze) Greg Meredith (Microsoft) Organising Chair Gianluigi Ferrari (Univ. Pisa) Program Committee: Roberto Amadio, Univ. Marseilles - France Farhad Arbab, CWI - The Netherlands Marcelo Bonsangue, Leiden University - The Netherlands Paolo Ciancarini, Univ. Bologna - Italy Gianluigi Ferrari, Univ. Pisa - Italy José Fiadeiro, Univ. Leicester - United Kingdom Chris Hankin, Imperial College - United Kingdom Jean-Marie Jacquet, Univ. Namur - Belgium Antonia Lopes, Univ. of Lisbon - Portugual Jeff Magee, Imperial College - United Kingdom George Papadopoulos, Univ. Cyprus - Cyprus Gian Pietro Picco, Politecnico di Milano - Italy Rosario Pugliese, Univ. Firenze - Italy Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University, St. Louis - USA Ant Rowstrom, Microsoft Cambridge - United Kingdom Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research - USA Carolin Talcott, SRI - USA Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin - Germany Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College - United Kingdom Alan Wood, Univ. York - United Kingdom Franco Zambonelli, Univ. Modena - Italy Organising Committee Andrea Bracciali, Univ. Pisa - Italy Roberto Bruni, Univ. Pisa - Italy Antonio Cisternino, Univ. Pisa - Italy Dan Hirsch, Univ. Pisa - Italy Laura Semini, Univ. Pisa - Italy Emilio Tuosto, Univ. Pisa - Italy Further Information - COORDINATION2004 Web site: http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004 - For questions: coordination2004@di.unipi.it