COORDINATION'96 - Coordination models and languages

COORDINATION'96, the first international conference on coordination models and languages, will take place in Cesena, Italy, on 15-17 April 1996. The conference is being organized by the COORDINATION project, funded under the European Community's specific research programme in the field of information technologies (ESPRIT).

A new class of models, formalisms and mechanisms for describing concurrent and distributed computations has emerged over the last few years. Some significant representatives of this new class are models and languages based on (generative) communication via a shared data space (eg. Gamma, Linda, Swarm, Linear Objects, Polis and Tao).

Coordination models and languages are being investigated by the COORDINATION Basic Research Project. The objective of this conference is to provide a forum for the rapidly growing community of researchers interested in this field.

Specific topics to be covered will include:

- Coordination problems within concurrent, distributed, object-oriented, functional and logic programming;
- Concurrent computation, constraint programming, computation models based on the chemical reaction metaphor and related areas;
- Software environments for the development of coordinated applications;
- Semantics and reasoning about coordination;
- Case studies with industrial relevance.
For further information, please contact:

Imperial College London
Department of Computing
Chris Hankin
180 Queen's Gate
London SW7 2BZ
UK
Tel. +44-171-5948266; Fax +44-171-5818024
E-mail: coord@doc.ic.ac.uk