COORDINATION 2026 - 28th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages

COORDINATION 2026 is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2026.

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Dates

For papers:

• Abstract submission: 30 January 2026
• Paper submission: 6 February 2026
• Paper and Artefact notification: 27 March 2026
• Camera-ready: 23 April 2026

For artefacts:

• Artefact submission: 13 February 2026
• Artefact kick-the-tires - problem reports: 23 February 2026
• Artefact kick-the-tires - author response: 2 March 2026
• Artefact notification: 27 March 2026

DisCoTec conference: June 8-12, 2026

Deadlines expire at 23:59 (AoE, anywhere on earth) on the dates displayed above.

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, architectures, and implementation techniques for coordination.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) foundational contributions, engineering techniques, tools, applications, and inter-disciplinary aspects.

A. Theoretical models and foundations for coordination

• Concurrency Theory, Composition, Distribution, Mobility, Time and Spatial Models
• Semantics, Logic, and Type Systems
• Probabilistic / Stochastic / Quantitative Models
• Formal Verification & Validation, and Model Checking

B. Coordination Paradigms & Languages

• Coordination Models & Language
• Session Types & Communication Protocols, Choreographies, Orchestration
• Actor and Agent-Based Systems
• Multi-agent systems, agent organisations, and societies
• Collective intelligence, Ensembles, Swarms, Self-organisation, and Emergence
• Bio-inspired / Nature-inspired Coordination
• AI-Driven & Learning-Based Coordination

C. Distributed & Pervasive & Modern Computing

• Microservices, Web Services, and Middleware
• Distributed, Reversible, Grid, Networked, Parallel and High-Performance Computing and Algorithms
• (Distributed) Run-time verification and monitoring
• Coordination across the continuum: IoT, Edge, Fog, Cloud
• Cyber-Physical Coordination, Context-awareness, Pervasive computing, Situatedness, and Human-Machine Hybrid Systems
• Decentralised systems, Peer-to-peer computing, Smart Contracts & Blockchain Applications

D. Software Engineering & Applications for Coordinated Systems

• Dynamic / Domain-Specific Software: Analysis, Models, Architecture, Patterns
• Programming Methodologies, Programming Languages
• DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Automation
• Business Process Modelling & Process Mining
• Digital twin networks, coordination of the digital thread
• Industrial Applications & Case Studies across fields (swarm robotics, vehicular networks, smart cities and ecosystems)
• GenAI/LLM-based Approaches to Engineer Coordination

E. Cross-Cutting and Multi-/Inter-/Trans-Disciplinary Aspects

• Security, Privacy, and Dependability in Coordination
• Adaptation, Reconfiguration, and Self-* properties
• Interdisciplinary & Societal Aspects of Coordination

F. Coordination Platforms, Middleware, and Tools

• Simulation Tools and Platforms
• Specification, Modelling, and Domain-specific Language Implementations and Workbenches
• Verification & Validation, Visualisation, and Testing Tools
• Distributed Middlewares and Platforms
• Datasets and Benchmarks for Coordination Systems

Submissions

Submission link

Submission are via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2026

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.

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 (see EAPLS artifact badges).

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.

A selection of artefacts may be invited for submission to a special issue of Science of Computer Programming (SCP). For reference, see the selected artefacts published in the SCP special issue from DisCoTec 2024.

Choose the “COORDINATION Artefacts 2026” track in EasyChair when submitting your artefact.

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.

Proceedings and Special Issues from Previous Editions

Proceedings The proceedings of previous editions of COORDINATION are available on SpringerLink

Special Issues Special issues hosted by more recent editions of COORDINATION are listed below.

• Selected Software Artefacts from the Papers of DisCoTec 2025, edited by Roberto Casadei, Duncan Paul Attard, Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, Emilio Incerto. In preparation.

• Selected Software Artefacts from the Papers of DisCoTec 2024, edited by Roberto Casadei, Duncan Paul Attard, Rumyana Neykova, and Emanuele D’Osualdo. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10WV5F3DZBD

• Selected Papers of Coordination and Forte 2023, Special Issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science, edited by Marieke Huisman, Sung-Shik Jongmans, Antónia Lopes, and António Ravara. In preparation.

• Selected Software Artefacts from the Papers of DisCoTec 2023, edited by Roberto Casadei, Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, Tom van Dijk, and Alceste Scalas. - 18th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming. --> Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106HX5T86G0

• Selected Papers of Coordination 2022, Special Issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science, edited by Maurice ter Beek and Marjan Sirjani. Available at: https://lmcs.episciences.org/volume/view/id/654

• Selected Software Artefacts from the Papers of DisCoTec 2022, edited by Ferruccio Damiani, David Eyers and Anna Philippou. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10CVGJGQP0Z.

• Selected Papers of Coordination 2021, Special Issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science, edited by Ferruccio Damiani and Ornela Dardha. Available at: https://lmcs.episciences.org/volume/view/id/449

• Selected Papers of Coordination 2020, Special Issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science, edited by Simon Bliudze and Laura Bocchi. Available at: https://lmcs.episciences.org/volume/view/id/415

• Selected Tool Papers of Coordination 2020 and Coordination 2021, Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming, edited by Hugo Vieira, Omar Inverso and Giorgio Audrito. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-computer-programming/special-issue/1046VCJSPCD

• Selected Papers of Coordination 2019, Special Issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science, edited by Emilio Tuosto and Hanne Riis Nielsen. Available at: https://lmcs.episciences.org/volume/view/id/377

• Selected Tool Papers of Coordination 2019, Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming, edited by Hugo Torres Vieira and Omar Inverso. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-computer-programming/special-issue/10H4835TWK9

Programme Committee

Co-Chairs

• Roberto Casadei (University of Bologna, Italy)
• Fatemeh Ghassemi (University of Tehran, Iran)

Programme Committee members

TBD

Artefact Evaluation Committee chair

• TBD

Artefact Evaluation Committee

• TBD

Steering Committee

• Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
• Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands)
• Simon Bliudze (INRIA Lille, France)
• Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)
• Ferruccio Damiani (University of Turin, Italy)
• Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
• Rocco De Nicola (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)
• Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
• Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium)
• Sung-Shik Jongmans (Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands)
• Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• Eva Kühn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
• Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
• Antónia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• Michele Loreti (Università di Camerino, Italy)
• Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy) - chair
• José Proença (University of Porto, Portugal)
• Rosario Pugliese (Università di Firenze, Italy)
• Marjan Sirjani (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
• Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA)
• Maurice ter Beek (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
• Francesco Tiezzi (Università di Firenze, Italy)
• Emilio Tuosto (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
• Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• Mirko Viroli (Università di Bologna, Italy)
• Gianluigi Zavattaro (Università di Bologna, Italy)

Contacts

For any queries, please contact the PC chairs Roberto Casadei and Fatemeh Ghassemi.