Scope

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. 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, rchitectures, and implementation techniques for coordination.

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.

Submissions

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. Companion artefacts to regular submissions will be reviewed by the Artefact Evaluation Committee, but the acceptance of the paper is decoupled from the acceptance of the artefact (does not depend on it). The acceptance of the artefact, however, is conditional to the acceptance of the paper.

• 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.

Publication

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

Journal Special Issues

  Selected papers accepted at the conference will be invited for submission to special issues in high-quality journals, such as:

•   Logical Methods in Computer Science
•   Science of Computer Programming (Software Track)

Programme Committee co-chairs

• Cinzia Di Giusto (Université Côte d’Azur)
• António Ravara (NOVA School of Science and Technology)

Artefact Evaluation Chairs

•   DisCoTec-wide: Roberto Casadei (University of Bologna, Italy)
•   COORDINATION: Duncan Attard (University of Glasgow, UK)

Joint Information with DisCOTec 2025

 DisCoTec 2025 - 20th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques

 https://www.discotec.org/2025

Best Paper Award

Each of the three DisCoTec 2025 main conferences will designate the best paper among its accepted ones. One of these papers will further receive the DisCoTec-wide best paper award.

Accommodations for parents of young children

  Subject to budget availability, we are planning to make special logistical arrangements for conference participants travelling with young children (and potentially accompanying persons). We invite interested persons to contact the General Chair (simon.bliudze@inria.fr), as soon as possible to discuss the arrangements that might be applicable.

Keynote Speakers

•   Alysson Bessani (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
•   Hélène Coullon (IMT Atlantique, France)
•   Omar Inverso (GSSI, Italy)
•   Burcu Ozkan (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

Tutorials

• Baptiste Jonglez (Inria, France) - DAIS
• Robbert Krebbers (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) - COORDINATION
• Emilio Tuosto (GSSI, Italy) - FORTE

Organizing Committee

• Simon Bliudze, General Chair (Inria Center at the University of Lille, France) 
• Larisa Safina, Satellite Events Chair (Inria Center at the University of Lille, France) 
• Adrien Luxey-Bitri, Young Researchers Forum Chair (University of Lille, France) 
• Imen Sayar, Gender equality / Women in Science co-Chair (University of Lille, France) 
• Manel Barkallah, Gender equality / Women in Science co-Chair (University of Namur, Belgium) 
• Bas van den Heuvel, Publicity co-Chair (University of Freiburg, Germany) 
• Matthew Alan Le Brun, Publicity co-Chair (University of Glasgow, UK) 
• Rémy Raes, Head of student volunters (Inria Center at the University of Lille, France)