Im posting this here primarily because of the work my colleagues have been doing in the area and they may find it interesting. I personally havent attended any of the previous coordination workshops but i've been to bologna a few times...the proceedings are published by springer as LNCS so it may worth the effort...
panos
Preliminary Call for Papers
COORDINATION 2006
8th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages
http://www.cs.unibo.it/discotec06/Coordination06
Bologna, Italy
14-16 June 2006
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission of abstract: 10 January 2006
* Submission of papers: 17 January 2006
* Notification of acceptance: 7 March 2006
* Final version: 28 March 2006
* Conference: 14-16 June 2006
CONFERENCE GOALS
Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent,
distributed, mobile, reconfigurable and heterogenous components. New
models, architectures, languages, verification techniques are necessary
to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today's software
development. Coordination languages have emerged as a successful
approach, in that they provide abstractions that cleanly separate behavior from
communication, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning,
and ultimately enhancing software development.
Building on the success of the previous editions, this conference
provides a well-established forum for the growing community of
researchers interested in models, languages, architectures, and
implementation techniques for coordination.
PROCEEDINGS
Proceedings of previous editions of this conference were published by
Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and
are available as LNCS volumes 1061, 1282, 1594, 1906, 2315, 2949 and
3454. The intention is to continue this series.