<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><b> </b><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#44546A">** Due to numerous requests, the deadlines for FOCLASA 2018 have been extended (see below) **</span></b><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB">16th International Workshop on Foundations of <br>Coordination Languages and Self-adaptive systems <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB">(FOCLASA 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB">Toulouse, France / June 26, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/"><span lang="EN-GB">http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/</span></a> <span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">PUBLICATIONS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Publication of the proceedings in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science of Springer-Verlag, following the collective volumes published by STAF <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Publication of extended versions of selected work is planned in a special issue of an international journal as in previous issues of FOCLASA <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">IMPORTANT DATES <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Submission of abstract: <s>April 13, 2018</s> <b><span style="color:red">Extended to April 22, 2018 (strict)</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Submission of papers: <s>April 20, 2018</s> <b><span style="color:red">Extended to April 30, 2018 (strict)</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Final version: June 10, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Workshop: June 26, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">WORKSHOP GOALS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Nowadays software systems are distributed, concurrent, mobile, and often involve the composition of heterogeneous components and stand-alone services. Service coordination and self-adaptation constitute the core characteristics of distributed and service-oriented systems. Coordination languages and formal approaches to modelling and reasoning about self-adaptive behaviour help to simplify the development of complex distributed service-based systems, enable functional correctness proofs and improve 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 solutions in the context of coordination languages and self-adaptive systems. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Theoretical models and frameworks for component and service coordination, service composition, service adaptation and concurrent system modeling. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Applications and usability studies for the aforementioned theoretical models, interaction and coordination challenges in various application domains. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Languages and specification protocols for component and service interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* "Software as a service" models (e.g., cloud computing) and dynamic software architectures, such as self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Tools and environments for the development of concurrent and customizable self-monitoring, self-adaptive and self-organizing applications. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Algorithms, mathematical models and realization frameworks for quality-of-service observation, storage, history-based analysis in self-adaptive systems (queuing models, load balancing, analysis of fault-tolerance, machine learning systems). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas are solicited as well: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Business process modelling <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Blockchains <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Cloud/fog/edge computing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Component-based systems <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Large-scale distributed systems <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* (Micro)service-based systems <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Multi-agent systems <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Peer-to-peer systems <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">* Self-adaptive systems <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">PROCEEDINGS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The conference proceedings will be published by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Extended versions of a selection of the best papers is planned to be published in a special issue of an international journal as in previous issues of FOCLASA. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Papers must be submitted electronically in PostScript or PDF by using a two-phase online submission process. Registration of information and and abstract (max. 250 words) of papers must be completed before April 13, 2018. Final submission of papers is due no later than April 20, 2018. All submissions will be handled through the EasyChair conference management system, accessible from the conference web site: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/foclasa">http://pages.di.unipi.it/foclasa</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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 (6 pages long) describing preliminary results or work-in-progress are encouraged as well. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without any review. Papers should be submitted as PDF or PS via EasyChair. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">PROGRAM COMMITTEE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Co-Chairs <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Members <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Pedro Alvarez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Javier Camara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA </p><p class="MsoNormal">Flavio De Paoli, University of Milano, Italy </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Francisco J. Duran, Universidad de Malaga, Spain <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Erik de Vink, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria </p><p class="MsoNormal">Letterio Galletta, IMT Lucca, Italy </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Eva Kuhn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sun Meng, Peking University, China <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hernan C. Melgratti, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Mohammad Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Pascal Poizat, Universite Paris Ouest, France <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jose Proenca, INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho, Portugal <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Gwen Salaun, University of Grenoble, France <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy </p><p class="MsoNormal">Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK </p><p class="MsoNormal">Lina Ye, CentraleSupelec, France </p><p class="MsoNormal">Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy</p></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"></div><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:70.85pt 2.0cm 2.0cm 2.0cm;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style></div></blockquote></body></html>