COORDINATION 2025 - Call for Papers

The 27th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION 2025) is part of DisCoTec 2025.

Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, distributed, mobile, adaptive, reconfigurable and heterogeneous components. New models, architectures, languages and 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 behaviour from communication, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development.

Main Topics

Topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of:

• Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component composition, concurrency, distribution, mobility; dynamic, spatial and probabilistic aspects of coordination; logic, types, semantics.
• Coordination of multi-agent and collective systems: models, languages, infrastructures, self-adaptation, self-organisation, distributed solving, collective intelligence and emerging behaviour.
• Coordination and modern distributed computing: web services, microservices, peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing, reversible computing.
• Session-based programming: models, languages, behavioural types, and tools.
• Models, languages, verification techniques and tools for interacting smart contracts and (blockchain-based) decentralised applications.
• Languages, methodologies and tools for secure coordination.
• Cybersecurity aspects of coordinated systems, coordinated approaches to cybersecurity.
• Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination.
• Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures: patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties, including performance and security aspects.
• Dynamic software architectures: distributed mobile code, configuration, reconfiguration, networked computing, parallel, high-performance and cloud computing.
• Coordination platforms for infrastructures of emergent new application domains, like IoT, fog- and edge-computing.
• Programming methodologies, languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the development and verification of coordinated applications, including DevOps approaches.
• Coordination in business process management: coordination models for business process management, process mining techniques and tools for coordination models.
• Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and coordination models, industry-driven efforts in coordination and case studies.
• Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination.

Submission Categories

• Regular papers (12-18 pages, not counting references and appendices): describing thorough and complete research results and experience reports. Regular papers may be combined with an artefact submission.
• Survey papers (16-25 pages, not counting references and appendices): describing important results and success stories related to the topics of COORDINATION.
• Tool papers (4-15 pages, not counting references and appendices): describing technological artefacts in the scope of the research topics of COORDINATION. Tool papers should provide a clear account of the tool’s functionality, discuss the tool’s practical capabilities possibly with reference to the type and size of problems it can handle, and,when applicable, report on realistic case studies (possibly providing a rigorous experimental evaluation). Tool papers may also provide an account of the theoretical foundations, including relevant citations, and present design and implementation concerns, possibly including software architecture and core data structures. Papers that present extensions to existing tools should clearly describe the improvements or extensions with respect to previously published versions of the tool, possibly providing data on enhancements in terms of resources and capabilities. In addition, the tool artefact must be submitted separately for evaluation. Acceptance of the tool artefact is mandatory for tool papers to be accepted. The artefact will be evaluated by a dedicated committee. Papers may contain a link to a publicly downloadable MPEG-4 demo video of at most 10 minutes length.

Artefact Submission Instructions

We invite you to also submit an associated artefact for evaluation (AE). Artefacts such as ancillary data, tools, and software will be assessed for availability, functionality, and reusability badges.

Instructions on how to upload artefacts can be found here.

As advertised in the call for papers, artefact submissions are mandatory for tool papers and optional for regular papers. Tool papers must submit an artefact that, at least, satisfies the requirements for the Functional badge. Papers not meeting this clause are rejected. Moreover, the acceptance of artefacts is conditional on the tool paper being accepted.

Choose the “COORDINATION Artefacts 2025” track in EasyChair when submitting your artefact.

Submission Link

Submission are via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2025

Publication

Publication of proceedings is coordinated among the three DisCoTec conferences (see the Conferences page for details). The COORDINATION proceedings are published by Springer as an LNCS-IFIP volume and comprise accepted submissions from all categories.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission: February 14, 2025
• Paper submission: February 21, 2025
• Artefact submission: February 28, 2025
• Artefact kick-the-tires - problem reports: March 10, 2025
• Artefact kick-the-tires - author response: March 17, 2025
• Artefact notification: April 4, 2025
• Paper notification: April 4, 2025
• Camera-ready: April 28, 2025
• Conference: June 16-20, 2025

Deadlines expire at 23:59 anywhere on earth on the dates displayed above.