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Objectives and Scope

Nowadays software systems are distributed, concurrent, mobile, and often involve the composition of heterogeneous components and stand-alone (micro)services. Service coordination, service orchestration and self-adaptation constitute the core characteristics of distributed and service-oriented systems. Theoretical/practical approaches to modelling and reasoning about (self-)adaptive behaviour help to simplify the development of complex distributed systems, enable their validation and evaluation, and improve interoperability, reusability and maintainability of such systems. The goal of the FOCLASA workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners of the aforementioned fields, to share and identify common problems, and to devise general novel solutions.

Topics

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) both theoretical and practical solutions for what follows:

  • Coordination, orchestration, composition and adaptation of components, services or microservices.
  • Business processes and concurrent system modelling.
  • Languages and models for component and service interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis.
  • Cloud/fog/edge computing, and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Dynamic software architectures, self-adaptive, self-monitoring and self-organizing systems.
  • Peer-to-peer and multi-agent systems, and blockchains.
  • QoS observation, storage, history-based analysis in self-adaptive systems.
  • AI for coordination and self-adaptativeness.

Call for papers

Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere. Full papers should be 15 pages long, including figures and references, and prepared by using Springer's LNCS style , Short papers (8-10 pages long) describing preliminary results or work-in-progress are encouraged as well. The contributions should be submitted as Portable Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site:

EasyChair FOCLASA 2020

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 is not allowed.

All accepted papers will be included in the LNCS Workshop Post-proceedings of SEFM 2020 , to be published by Springer after the workshop. Additionally, and following the tradition of past editions, the authors of a selected subset of papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers after the workshop, to be reviewed by a new set of reviewers, for publication in a special issue of a journal.

Text version: foclasa-2020-cfp.rtf.

Important dates

Abstract
submission

June 9th, 2020 July 26th, 2020
Paper
submission

June 16th, 2020 July 31th, 2020
Notification of
acceptance

July 21st, 2020 August 24th, 2020
Final
version

August 4th, 2020 August 31st, 2020

Program committee chairs

Ernesto PIMENTEL

University of Málaga, Spain

Sung-Shik JONGMANS

Open University, The Netherlands

Steering committee

Farhad ARBAB

CWI, The Netherlands

Antonio BROGI

University of Pisa, Italy

Carlos CANAL

University of Málaga, Spain

Jean-Marie JACQUET

University of Namur, Belgium

Ernesto PIMENTEL

University of Málaga, Spain

Gwen Salaün

University of Grenoble Alpes, France

Program committee

Pedro Álvarez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France
Uwe Breitenbücher, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
Flavio De Paoli, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Francisco J. Durán, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Erik de Vink, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium
Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway
Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Sun Meng, Peking University, China
Hernan C. Melgratti, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pascal Poizat, Universite Paris Ouest, France
Jose Proenca, INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Gwen Salaün, University of Grenoble, France
Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy
Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK - Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy
Lina Ye, CentraleSupelec, France

Program

TBA

Invited Talks

TBA

Past editions

FOCLASA 2019, a satellite workshop of SEFM 2019, Oslo (Norway). Proceedings in LNCS, To Appear. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, Elsevier [under preparation].

FOCLASA 2018, a satellite workshop of STAF / SEFM 2018, Toulouse (France). Proceedings in LNCS, vol. 11176, 2018. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 191, Elsevier, 2020.

FOCLASA 2017, a satellite workshop of SEFM 2017, Trento (Italy). Proceedings in LNCS, vol. 10729, 2017. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 166, Elsevier, 2018.

FOCLASA 2015, a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2015, Madrid (Spain). Proceedings in EPTCS, vol. 201, 2015.

FOCLASA 2014, a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2014, Rome (Italy). Proceedings in EPTCS, vol. 175, 2015.

FOCLASA 2013, a satellite workshop of ESOCC 2013, Málaga (Spain). Proceedings in Communications in Computing and Information Science, vol. 393, 2013, Springer. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 115-116, Elsevier, 2016.

FOCLASA 2012, a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2012, Newcastle (United Kingdom). Proceedings in EPTCS, vol. 91, 2012. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 115-116, Elsevier, 2016.

FOCLASA 2011, a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2011, Aachen (Germany). Proceedings in EPTCS, vol. 58, 2011. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 89 (Part A), Elsevier, 2014.

FOCLASA 2010, a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2010, Paris (France). Proceedings in EPTCS, vol. 30, 2010. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 80 (Part A), Elsevier, 2014.

FOCLASA 2009, a satellite workshop of ICALP 2009, Rhodes (Greece). Proceedings in ENTCS, vol. 255, 2009. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 77(7-8), Elsevier.

FOCLASA 2008, a satellite workshop of ICALP 2008, Reykjavik (Iceland). Proceedings in ENTCS, vol. 248, 2009. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 76(8), Elsevier.

FOCLASA 2007, a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2007, Lisbon (Portugal). Proceedings in ENTCS, vol. 194(4), 2008. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 76(1), Elsevier.

FOCLASA 2006, a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2006, Bonn (Germany). Proceedings in ENTCS, vol. 175(2), 2007. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 74(9), Elsevier.

FOCLASA 2005, a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2005, San Francisco (USA). Proceedings in ENTCS, vol. 154(1), 2006. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 66(2), Elsevier, 2007.

FOCLASA 2004, a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2004, London (United Kingdom). Proceedings in ENTCS, vol. 180(2), 2007.

FOCLASA 2003, a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2003, Marseille (France). Proceedings in ENTCS, vol. 97, 2004. Special issue in Science of Computer Programming, vol. 61(2), Elsevier, 2006.

FOCLASA 2002, a satellite workshop of CONCUR 2002, Brno (Czech Republic). Proceedings in ENTCS, vol. 68(3), 2003. Special issue in Fundamenta Informaticae, vol 73(4), IOSPress, 2006.

Other Information

Publicity chair: Alejandro Perez Vereda, University of Málaga, Spain

Website chair: Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy

Contact address: For any further information please contact the Program Chairs.