From aomicini@deis.unibo.it Fri May 7 14:53:16 1999 Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:08:29 PDT From: Andrea Omicini Reply-To: Theory-A - TheoryNet World-Wide Events , Andrea Omicini To: THEORYNT@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Subject: CFP: ACM SAC 2000 - Track on Coordination CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES ============================ (Apologies if you receive multiple copies) 2000 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2000) Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications March 19-21, 2000 Villa Olmo, Como, Italy (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/SAC2000.html) SAC 2000: ~~~~~~~~~~ Over the past fourteen 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 2000 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and in cooperation with ACM SIGs SIGBIO, and SIGCUE. 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, Mobile and Scientific Computing, Internet and the WWW, etc. Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Track: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC 2000. The term "coordination" here is used in a rather broad sense covering traditional models and languages (e.g. ones based on the Shared Dataspace and CHAM metaphors) but also other related formalisms such as configuration and architectural description frameworks, systems modeling abstractions and languages, programming skeletons, etc. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: * Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques. * Relationship with other computational models such as object oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or extensions of them with coordination capabilities. * Applications (especially where the industry is involved). * Theoretical aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification). * 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). Track Program Chairs: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andrea Omicini George A. Papadopoulos LIA, DEIS, Facolta' di Ingegneria Department of Computer Science Universita' degli Studi di Bologna University of Cyprus Viale Risorgimento, 2 75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O.B. 20537 40136 Bologna - ITALY CY-1678, Nicosia, CYPRUS E-mail: aomicini@deis.unibo.it E-mail: george@cs.ucy.ac.cy Tel: +39 051 6443087 Tel: +357 2 338705/06 Fax: +39 051 6443073 Fax: +357 2 339062 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 2000 proceedings. Submission guidelines must be strictly followed: * Submit six (6) copies of original manuscripts to either of the SAC 2000 Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Track Program Chairs (addresses shown above). Alternatively, submit your paper electronically in uuencoded compressed postscript format; this is strongly encouraged. Fax submissions will not be accepted. * 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, 1999. Anyone wishing to review papers for this special track should contact the Track Program Chairs at the addresses shown above. Important Dates: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * September 1, 1999: Paper Submission. * November 1, 1999: Author Notification. * December 1, 1999: Camera-Ready Copy.