---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: SAC 2002 Coordination Track: CfP&R Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:22:07 +0200 From: Sascha Ossowski sossowski@escet.urjc.es To: Sascha Ossowski s.ossowski@escet.urjc.es
CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES ============================ (Apologies if you receive multiple copies)
17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002)
Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications
March 10-14, 2002 Madrid, SPAIN
( http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2002/ )
SAC 2002 ~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
Proceedings and Post-proceedings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Papers accepted for the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2002 proceedings and in the Digital Library. Among the papers accepted and presented at the Track, a further selection will be performed according to quality and relevance criteria, to produce a "Special Issue on Coordination and Knowledge Engineering" of The Knowledge Engineering Review http://uk.cambridge.org/journals/ker/
Even though this will not affect paper acceptance to SAC 2002, referees will be separately asked to express their advice on relevance of papers to the Special Issue since the first review step. Accordingly, we encourage potential authors of papers submitted to the Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications to take a look to KER's aims and scope.
Track Program Chairmen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 mailto:aomicini@deis.unibo.it mailto:S.Ossowski@escet.urjc.es http://lia.deis.unibo.it/~ao/ http://www.ia.escet.urjc.es/~sossowski
Guidelines for Submission ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Further information can be found at the special track home page:
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac02/
Important Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * September 1, 2001: Paper Submission * October 15, 2001: Author Notification * November 1, 2001: Camera-Ready Copy
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