COORDINATION 2016 - 18th IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages

COORDINATION 2016 is the premier forum for publishing research results and experience reports on software technologies for collaboration and coordination in concurrent, distributed, and complex systems. The key focus of the conference is the quest for high-level abstractions that can capture interaction patterns and mechanisms occurring at all levels of the software architecture, up to the end-user domain. COORDINATION 2016 seeks high-quality contributions on the usage, study, formal analysis, design, and implementation of languages, models, and techniques for coordination in distributed, concurrent, pervasive, and parallel software-intensive computing systems. COORDINATION 2016 seeks as well to adapt and integrate traditional COORDINATION techniques in the realm of multi-agent systems (MAS), which typically involve more coarse-grained (cognitive, intelligent, goal-oriented) components.
Main topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of:
Models and paradigms
Programming abstractions and languages
Foundations, types and semantics
Specification and verification
Middlewares and architectures
Distributed, mobile and networked computing
Parallel and high-performance computing
Nature- and bio-inspired approaches
Self-adaptation, self-organisation and autonomic computing
Collective systems, ensembles, federations, and systems-of-systems
Teamwork, distributed problem solving and collective intelligence
Multi-agent systems, auction, negotiation, argumentation, and rational agents
Trust, policies, reputation and security
Applications and case studies