Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Theoretical models and frameworks for component and service coordination, service composition, service adaptation and concurrent system modeling.
• Applications and usability studies for the aforementioned theoretical models, interaction and coordination challenges in various application domains.
• Languages and specification protocols for component and service interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis.
• “Software as a service” models (e.g., cloud computing) and dynamic software architectures, such as self-adaptive and self-organizing systems.
• Tools and environments for the development of concurrent and customizable self- monitoring, self-adaptive and self-organizing applications.
• Algorithms, mathematical models and realization frameworks for quality-of-service observation, storage, history-based analysis in self-adaptive systems (queuing models, load balancing, fault- tolerance analysis, machine learning systems).

In particular, practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas are solicited:

• Business process modeling
• Cloud computing
• Service-oriented computing
• Component-based systems
• Grid computing
• Large-scale distributed systems
• Multi-agent systems
• Peer-to-peer systems

Survey papers analysing and comparing literature on the topics of FOCLASA and relevant works on coordination and self-adaptive behavior in other areas, e.g., bio-inspired computing, are welcome as well.