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Subject: SAC 2002 Coordination Track: Preliminar CfP&R
PRELIMINAR CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES
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(Apologies if you receive multiple copies)
17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002)
Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications
March 10-13, 2002
Madrid, SPAIN
(http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac02/)
SAC 2002
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Over the past sixteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
(SAC) has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists and
application developers from around the world to interact and present
their work. SAC 2002 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on
Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is presented in cooperation with other
ACM Special Interest Groups. SAC 2002 is hosted by the Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of
experimental computing and application development for the technical
sessions. There will be a number of special tracks on such issues as
Programming Languages, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Agent
Systems, Multimedia and Visualization, etc.
Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Track
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Building on the success of the four previous editions (1998-2001), a
special track on coordination models, languages and applications
will be held at SAC 2002. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the
emergence of models, formalisms and mechanisms to describe concurrent
and distributed computations and systems based on the concept of
coordination. The purpose of a coordination model is to enable the
integration of a number of possibly heterogeneous components
(processes, objects, agents) in such a way that the resulting ensemble
can execute as a whole, forming a software system with desired
characteristics and functionalities which possibly takes advantage of
parallel and distributed systems. The coordination paradigm is closely
related to other contemporary software engineering approaches such as
component-based systems and middleware platforms. Furthermore, the
concept of coordination exists in many other Computer Science areas
such as Cooperative Information Systems, Distributed Artificial
Intelligence, and Internet Technologies.
The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications
deliberately takes a broad view of what is coordination: this term
covers here traditional models and languages (e.g., the ones based on
the Shared Dataspace and CHAM metaphors), but also other related
notions and formalisms such as configuration and architectural
description frameworks, models of multi-agent planning, organization
and decision-making, systems modeling abstractions and languages,
programming skeletons, etc.
Correspondingly, in addition to the traditional areas covering data-
driven (such as Linda) and control-driven (such as Manifold) models
and languages, this Special Track aims at putting together
contributions from all the many areas where the concept of coordination
is relevant, such as multi-agent systems, software architectures,
middleware platforms, groupware and workflow management, etc,
providing them with a common forum where to discuss their different
viewpoints and share ideas. On this very subject, it is worth to
remind that the last editions of this Track were undoubtedly successful
under many points of view, but in particular in attracting relevant
and consistent contributions from many different research communities.
According to that, major topics of interest include (but are not
limited to) the following:
* Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques
* Applications (especially where the industry is involved)
* Theoretical aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification)
* Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile and
intelligent agents
* Software architectures and software engineering techniques
* Configuration and Architecture Description Languages
* Middleware platforms (e.g. CORBA)
* All aspects related to the modeling of Information Systems
(groupware, Internet and the Web, workflow management, CSCW)
* Coordination technologies, systems and infrastructures
* Internet- and Web-based coordinated systems
* Relationship with other computational models such as object
oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming
or extensions of them with coordination capabilities
Track Program Chairmen
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Andrea Omicini Sascha Ossowski
DEIS, Facolta' di Ingegneria AI Group, E.S.C.E.T.
Universita' degli Studi di Bologna Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Viale Risorgimento, 2 Campus de Mostoles, Calle Tulipan s/n
I-40136 Bologna, ITALY E-28933 Madrid, SPAIN
voice# +39 051 2093023 voice# +34 916647485
fax# +39 051 2093073 fax# +34 916647490
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Guidelines for Submission
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Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will
be considered. This includes three categories of submissions: 1)
original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing
applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government,
education and industry; and 3) reports of successful technology
transfer to new problem domains. Each submitted paper will be fully
refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three
referees. The accepted papers in all categories will be published in
the ACM SAC 2002 proceedings.
Submission guidelines must be strictly followed:
* Submit your paper *electronically* in either PDF or postscript
format to one of the Track Program Chairmen of the Special Track
on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications (addresses are
shown above). Please *note*: neither hardcopy nor fax submissions
will be accepted. Submissions should be printable on a standard
printer on common paperformats like letter and DIN A4. Please use
a Postscript previewer such as Ghostview to check the portability
of Postscript documents. The acceptable compression formats for
submissions are Zip and Tar.
* The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body
of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person.
This is to facilitate blind review.
* The body of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words (approximately
15 pages, double-spaced).
* A separate cover sheet (in the case of electronic submission this
should be sent separately from the main paper) should show the
title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s),
and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which
correspondence should be sent.
* All submissions must be received by September 1, 2001.
Referees
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Over the last four years, the Special Track on Coordination Models,
Languages and Applications has built its success also over the work of
many volunteer referees. Anyone wishing to review papers for this
special track should contact one of the Track Program Chairmen at the
addresses shown above.
Track Home Page
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Further information can be found at the special track home page:
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac02/
Important Dates
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* September 1, 2001: Paper Submission
* October 15, 2001: Author Notification
* November 1, 2001: Camera-Ready Copy
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