*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS / EXTENDED ABSTRACTS / PRESENTATION SUMMARIES CoPro 2015 Mini-Symposium on Coordination Programming http://www.parco2015.org/coordination-programming Edinburgh, UK September 1, 2015 Submission deadline: July 29, 2015 *************************************************************************** PART OF ParCo 2015 17th International Conference on Parallel Computing http://www.parco2015.org/ Edinburgh, UK September 1-4, 2015 *************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: July 29, 2015: submission deadline July 30, 2015: author notification July 31, 2015: early registration deadline ParCo conference September 1, 2015: mini-symposium September 4, 2015: end of ParCo conference October 31, 2015: submission of camera-ready papers for ParCo proceedings *************************************************************************** SUBMISSIONS: The focus of the mini-symposium is on bringing together researchers interested in all aspects of coordination programming. Our emphasis is on lively discussions and scientific exchange, not formalities. For the initial submission anything from a 1-2 page extended abstract or presentation summary to a full 10-page paper is equally fine. Titles, authors and abstracts of all submissions accepted by the CoPro 2015 mini-symposium will appear in the ParCo book of abstracts to be distributed during the conference. We will merely apply a quick scope check. All authors of contributions presented at the mini-symposium are invited to submit a full paper after the conference that will be reviewed and if accepted will be included in the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo 2015) and published as a volume of the series Advances of Parallel Computing after the ParCo conference. Submission of contributions is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copro2015 *************************************************************************** SCOPE: Coordination programming is a term that everybody seems to have a vague idea about, but only a few have a definite view on. And among those there is a great deal of divergence in understanding what coordination is all about. In this mini-symposium we intend to look at various interpretations of, and approaches to, coordination: from the conventional tuple-space, Linda-inspired constructions, such as CnC, to behavioural models such as Reo, to more recent attempts to see a coordination program as a projection of the full semantics of a distributed application that can be more or less accurately inferred at compile time and which affects resource- and performance-critical parameters. The mini-symposium will serve as a forum for building bridges between the various directions of research and will help us to share experiences and build a community geared towards practical applications of coordination programming. The mini-symposium will address, but is not limited to, the following issues through contributed papers and a panel-style discussion session included in the programme: * Why does coordination require a coordination language? Is there a kind of analysis that is impeded by the lack of specific coordination-language constructs? * Inference vs adaptation. What can be inferred and how should the coordination program adapt to the resource situation in parallel and distributed systems? * What kind of tuning or self-tuning facilities should/can coordination programming approaches require/possess? * What is the relationship between control-coordination and data-coordination? * How can coordination programming address the challenges of cloud computing, big data processing/analysis and mixed-criticality cyberphysical systems? * What are recent success stories in applying coordination programming to real-life applications? *************************************************************************** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Farhad Arbab, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Kath Knobe, Rice University, USA Alex Shafarenko, University of Hertfordshire, UK *************************************************************************** MINI-SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Clemens Grelck University of Amsterdam Informatics Institute Science Park 904 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands c.grelck@uva.nl http://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck Alex Shafarenko University of Hertfordshire School of Computer Science College Lane Hatfield, AL10 9AB United Kingdom a.shafarenko@herts.ac.uk http://homepages.herts.ac.uk/~comqas/ *************************************************************************** -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 University Lecturer 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 Computer Systems Architecture Group F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Office C3.105 staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------