[Hol-info] FOCLASA 2015 - 1st Call For Papers

[Alexander P. <ale...@gr...>]

[Apologies for multiple postings] 

-- First Call for Papers -- 

FOCLASA 2015: 14th International Workshop on Foundations of 
Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems 

http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/ 

5 September 2014, Madrid (Spain) 
In conjunction with CONCUR 2015 
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FOCLASA 2015 is a workshop colocated with the 25th International 
Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015 - 
http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/concur2015 ). The goal of the FOCLASA workshop 
is to put together researchers and practitioners to share and identify 
common problems, and to devise general solutions in the context of 
coordination languages and self-adaptive systems. 

== IMPORTANT DATES == 

3 June 2014: Deadline for abstract submission 
7 June 2014: Deadline for paper submission 
12 July 2014: Notifications 
22 July 2014: Final versions 
5 September 2015: Workshop in Madrid 

== TOPICS OF INTEREST == 

* Theoretical models and frameworks for component and service 
coordination, service composition, service adaptation and concurrent 
system modeling. 
* Applications and usability studies for the aforementioned theoretical 
models, interaction and coordination challenges in decentralized 
self-adaptive systems and various application domains. 
* Languages and specification protocols for component and service 
interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and 
verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis. 
* "Software as a Service" models (e.g., cloud computing) and dynamic 
software architectures, such as self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. 
* Service composition and coordination for Future Internet applications, 
service orchestration and choreographies, related theories and methods, 
and possible model-driven development approaches. 
* Tools and environments for the development of concurrent and 
customizable self-monitoring, self-adaptive and self-organizing 
applications. 
* Algorithms, mathematical models and realization frameworks for 
quality-of-service observation, storage, history-based analysis in 
self-adaptive systems (queuing models, load balancing, fault-tolerance 
analysis, machine learning systems). 
* Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, stochastic modeling and 
analysis, reasoning under uncertainty, run-time synthesis. 

In particular, practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas are solicited as well: 

* Cloud computing 
* Service-oriented computing 
* Component-based systems 
* Grid computing 
* Large-scale distributed systems 
* Multi-agent systems 
* Peer-to-peer systems 
* Networked embedded systems 
* Business process modeling 

Survey works analysing and comparing literature on the topics of 
FOCLASA are also welcome. 

== PAPER SUBMISSION == 

Submissions must describe authors' original research work and their 
results. Description of work-in-progress with concrete results is also 
encouraged. The contributions should not exceed 15 pages in the EPTCS 
style ( http://style.eptcs.org/ ) and should be submitted as Portable 
Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site: 

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foclasa2015 

Submitting an abstract does not put any obligation on the authors to 
submit a full paper. Abstracts without an accompanying full paper by 
the paper submission deadline are automatically considered withdrawn. 
The authors are, however, encouraged to explicitly withdraw their 
abstract, if they decide not to submit a full paper. 

All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee 
who will make a selection among the submissions based on the novelty, 
soundness and applicability of the presented ideas and results. 
Concurrent submission to other venues (conferences, workshops or 
journal) and submission of papers under consideration elsewhere are not 
allowed. A printed version of the proceedings will be distributed among 
participants during the workshop. The proceedings of the workshop will 
be published as a separate volume. Participants will give a presentation 
of their papers in twenty minutes, followed by a ten-minute round of 
questions and discussion on participants' work. Following the tradition 
of the past editions, we plan to have a special issue of an 
international scientific journal devoted to FOCLASA 2015. Selected 
participants will be invited to submit an extended version of their 
papers after the workshop. These extended versions will be reviewed by 
an international program committee, which will decide on their final 
publication on the special issue. In the last few editions of FOCLASA, a 
special issue of Science of Computer Programming has been dedicated to 
this workshop. 


== PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS == 

* Jose Proenca 
iMinds-Distrinet, KU Leuven, Belgium and 
HASLab/INESC TEC, University of Minho, Portugal 
jos...@cs... 

* Massimo Tivoli 
University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy 
mas...@un... 

== PUBLICITY CHAIR == 

* Alexander Perucci, University of L'Aquila, Italy 

== PROGRAM COMMITTEE == 

* Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands 
* Marco Autili, Univ. of L'Aquila, Italy 
* Luis Barbosa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal 
* Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn, Germany 
* Javier Camara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
* Carlos Canal, University of Malága, Spain 
* Carlos Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain 
* David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
* Alfredo Goldmann, University of São Paulo, Brazil 
* Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland 
* Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium 
* Christian Krause, SAP Innovation Center, Germany 
* Sun Meng, Peking University, China 
* Liliana Pasquale, University of Limerick, Ireland 
* Jose Proenca, iMinds-Distrinet and HASLab/INESC TEC, KU Leuven, Belgium 
* Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland 
* Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA 
* Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy 
* Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy 

== STEERING COMMITTEE == 

* Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands 
* Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy 
* Carlos Canal, University of Malága, Spain 
* Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium 
* Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malága, Spain 
* Gwen Salaun, Grenoble INP - INRIA Grenoble - LIG, France