Coordination Models and Languages 7th International Conference, COOR

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Jean-Marie Jacquet Gian Pietro Picco (Eds.)

Coordination Models and Languages 7th International Conference, COORDINATION 2005 Namur, Belgium, April 20-23, 2005 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Jean-Marie Jacquet University of Namur Institute of Informatics Rue Grandgagnage 21, 5000 Namur, Belgium E-mail: [email protected] Gian Pietro Picco Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milan, Italy E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005923585 CR Subject Classification (1998): D.2.4, D.2, C.2.4, D.1.3, F.1.2, I.2.11 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, distributed, mobile, reconfigurable and heterogenous components. New models, architectures, languages, and verification techniques are therefore necessary to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today’s software development. Coordination languages have emerged as a successful approach, providing abstractions that cleanly separate behavior from communication and therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development. This volume contains the proceedings of the 7th Internationa