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2nd Call for papers: COORDINATION'97


                      Announcement and Call for Papers
                              COORDINATION'97
    Second International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages
                              Berlin, Germany
                            September 1-3, 1997.

The last decade has seen the emergence of a class of languages and models
variously termed ``coordination languages'', ``configuration languages'',
and ``architectural description languages''. These formalisms provide a
clean separation between individual software components and their
interaction in the overall software organisation. This separation makes
large applications more tractable, supports global analysis, and enhances
reuse of software. Building on the success of COORDINATION'96,
COORDINATION'97 will provide a forum for this rapidly growing community
working in areas ranging from theoretical models and foundations, to
languages and implementation techniques. The proceedings of COORDINATION'96
were published as Springer Verlag LNCS 1061.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

   * Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component
     composition; concurrency; dynamic aspects of coordination.
   * Specification, refinement and analysis of software architectures;
     verification of functional and non-functional properties.
   * Coordination, software architecture, and interface definition
     languages; implementation issues; interoperability and heterogeneity.
   * Tools and environments for the development of coordinated applications;
     integration within the development process; maintenance, evolution and
     reuse of software architectures; patterns and architecture styles;
     knowledge-based techniques for software architectures; integration
     tests.
   * Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures;
     programming in the large; domain-specific software architectures and
     coordination models; case studies.

Submissions: Authors are invited to send 6 copies of a full paper (in
English, up to 6 000 words, preferably double-sided) at the postal address
mentioned on the left. Full papers must be received by the program co-chair
no later than January 24. Electronic submissions will not be considered.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals is not allowed.
Each submission should be preceded by an abstract of no more than 250 words,
sent by email (in ascii format) to coo97@irisa.fr. The abstract must be
received by the co-chair by January 17.

Selection: Submissions should explicitly state their contribution and their
relevance to coordination or software architecture. Other criteria for
selection will be originality, significance, correctness and clarity.

Case study workshop: A co-located workshop will be organised to present and
compare approaches to coordination and software architecture through an
industrial case study. Authors are invited to participate in the workshop by
submitting either a position paper or a full paper presenting a solution to
the case study. For additional details on the workshop, see
"http://www.wins.uva.nl/research/coordination/" or contact the workshop
chair at the address on the left.

Conference format and location: Coordination'97 will be hosted by the
Technical University Berlin. Berlin is the 3.5 million residents capital of
Germany and reflects the history in a unique way with many touristic
attractions. It is one of Europe's leading cultural centers and offers a
rich variety of opera, theatres and a colorful nightlife for all interests.
The three airports in Berlin are about 30 to 40 minutes from the western
center where the conference site and hotels for participants are located.

Information on the Web about COORDINATION'97 can be found at
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~coord97/.

Information about registering for the conference can be found at
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~coord97/register.html. Please register early, as
in the week of the conference, also one of the largest fairs in consumer
electronics takes place. Thus, hotel reservations have to be made as early
as possible.

 Program co-chairs:
                                         PAPER SUBMISSION
 David Garlan (CMU/USA)
                                         COORDINATION'97 :
 Daniel Le Métayer (INRIA/FR)
                                         Daniel Le Métayer
 Program Committee:                      INRIA/IRISA
 Jaco de Bakker (CWI/NL)                 Rennes
 Maarten Boasson (Signaal/NL)            Campus de Beaulieu
 Luca Cardelli (Digital/USA)             35042 RENNES CEDEX
 Paolo Ciancarini (Bologna/IT)           FRANCE
 Susan Graham (Berkeley/USA)             Phone: +33 99 84 73 06
 Chris Hankin (London/UK)                Fax: +33 99 84 71 71
 Philippe Kruchten (Rational Soft./CN)   Email: coo97@irisa.fr
 Ugo Montanari (Pisa/IT)
 Mark Moriconi (SRI/USA)
 Oscar Nierstrasz (Berne/CH)             WORKSHOP INFORMATION
 Dewayne Perry (Bell Labs/USA)           Edwin de Jong
 António Porto (Lisbon/P)                Hollandse Signaalapparaten b. v.
 James Purtilo (Maryland/USA)            Zuidelijke Havenweg 40
 David Schmidt (KSU/USA)                 7554 RR Hengelo
 Peter Wegner (Brown/USA)                Netherlands
 Alexander L. Wolf (Colorado/USA)        Phone: +31 74 24 82 851
 Local organizer:                        Fax: +31 74 24 84 018
 Robert Tolksdorf (TU Berlin)            Email: edejong@signaal.nl

 IMPORTANT DATES
 Deadline for abstracts (email): January 17, 1997
 Deadline for paper submissions: January 24, 1997
 Notification of acceptance: April 13, 1997
 Camera-ready version due: May 23, 1997
 Conference: September 1-3, 1997
 Case study workshop: September 4, 1997
 The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series.

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