COORDINATION 2027 - 29th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages

COORDINATION 2027 is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2027.

Updates

2026-10-28: Nobuko Yoshida will be COORDINATION invited speaker.
2026-10-21: First call for papers released.

Important Dates

All deadlines expire at 23:59 (anywhere on earth) on the dates below, displayed in the YYYY-MM-DD format.

Date	Paper	Artefact
2027-01-28	Abstract submission
2027-02-04	Paper submission
2027-02-11		Artefact submission
2027-02-22		Kick-the-tires: Problem reports
2027-03-01		Kick-the-tires: Response due
2027-03-22	Notification
2027-03-25		Notification
2027-04-01	Camera-ready	Camera-ready

DisCoTec conference: June 14-18, 2027

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

Foundations of Coordination

Models and theories of concurrency, interaction, mobility, and distribution
Semantics, logics, type systems, and behavioural equivalences
Probabilistic, quantitative, timed, and hybrid models
Formal verification, synthesis, and compositional reasoning

Languages, Protocols & Programming Models

Language design and implementation
Behavioural types and communication protocols, choreographies, orchestration
Actor-based systems
Bio-inspired and nature-inspired coordination

Distributed, Cloud & Data Coordination

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 and blockchain Applications

AI, Agentic, Autonomous & Cyber-Physical Coordination

Coordination for AI, multi-agent, and agentic systems, including LLM-based agents
AI-driven, learning-based, distributed, and federated coordination
Collective intelligence, ensembles, swarms, self-organisation, and emergence
Autonomous systems, robotics, cyber-physical systems, IoT, and digital twins
Human-AI, human-agent, and human-machine coordination

Engineering Trustworthy & Adaptive Coordinated Systems

Software architectures, engineering methods, and design patterns for coordinated systems
Adaptation, reconfiguration, self-* systems, and DevOps
Testing, debugging, runtime verification, monitoring, and observability
Security, privacy, safety, dependability, resilience, and trust
Sustainable and resource-aware coordination

Tools, Applications, Experience & Community Resources

Coordination platforms, middleware, frameworks, simulation, and development tools
Industrial applications, deployments, case studies, and experience reports
Datasets, benchmarks, reproducibility, and empirical studies
Application domains including robotics, smart cities, vehicular systems, cloud/edge, and IoT
Interdisciplinary, socio-technical, and societal aspects of coordination

Submissions

Before any submission, please study COORDINATION Policy for the Use of Generative AI for the authors.

Submission link

Submission are via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2027.

Submission categories

Regular papers (at most 18 pages, excluding 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 (at most 25 pages, excluding references and appendices): describing important results and success stories related to the topics of COORDINATION.
Tool papers (at most 15 pages, excluding 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 the Artefact Evaluation Committee. Authors are encouraged to provide a link to a publicly downloadable demo video of at most 10 minutes length. However, this is not a requirement.
New Ideas, Visions & Position Papers (at most 6 pages, excluding references and appendices): presenting bold or emerging ideas, open challenges, research agendas, preliminary results, calls to action, or well-argued positions concerning the future of coordination models, languages, systems, and applications. Evaluation will emphasize novelty, relevance, potential impact, and quality of argument rather than completeness of evaluation.
Journal-First Papers (at most 2 pages, excluding references and appendices): presenting recently published or accepted journal articles that are relevant to COORDINATION and have not previously been presented at a major conference or workshop. Journal-First submissions should consist of a short presentation proposal identifying the original journal publication and briefly explaining its relevance to the COORDINATION community. Submissions will be evaluated primarily on relevance, quality, and potential interest to the COORDINATION audience. Accepted submissions will be invited for presentation at the conference but will not be included in the proceedings.

Artefact Submission Instructions

Each type of paper can be accompanied by an artefact. Artefacts such as ancillary data, tools, and software will be assessed for availability, functionality, and reusability badges (see EAPLS artifact badges) by the Artefact Evaluation Committee (AEC).

Acceptance of the artefact will result to the application of a badge on the corresponding paper. Since 2022, a selection of artefacts has been invited to be extended and submitted as an original software publication to a special issue (e.g., on the Science of Computer Programming OSP track).

Submission are done at the same link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2027. Select “COORDINATION 2027 Artefacts Track” on your new submission. Instructions for artefact submission will be provided at a later date.

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.

Policy for the Use of Generative AI

Authors are allowed to use generative AI tools such as Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist in writing or research. However, authors must take full responsibility for all content in their paper, including any content generated by AI tools that might be construed as plagiarism or scientific misconduct. We encourage authors to explain any notable ways in which these tools were used in their research methodology. LLMs are not eligible for authorship.

Below we list the acceptable and unacceptable uses of generative AI for authors. Note that acceptable use cases only apply where confidentiality is not an issue.

Unacceptable Uses:

It is not acceptable to use generative AI to draft paper sections. In essence, papers MUST be written by humans.
It is not acceptable to use generative AI-created visuals (images or videos). Specific exceptions are included in the Springer Nature AI Policy; licensed visuals, AI-focused research images, or those created with verifiable scientific tools. All approved AI-generated visuals must be explicitly labeled as AI-generated.

Acceptable Uses:

As an algorithmic technique for research study in your research e.g. LLMs for generating formal models from requirements in natural language.
As an aid to correct written text (spell checkers, grammar checkers) solely written by the authors.
As an aid to language translation, however, the human is responsible for the accuracy of the final text.
As an evaluation technique (to assist in finding inconsistencies or other anomalies).
It is permissible to include LLM generated text snippets as examples in research papers where appropriate, but these MUST be clearly labeled and their use explained.
Assist in code writing, however, the human is responsible for the code.
Create documentation for code, however, the human is responsible for the correct documentation.
To discover background information on a topic, subject to verification from trusted sources.

Review

The review process is single-anonymous. The Program Committee will strive to provide at least three reviews per paper.

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 and indexed by DBLP.

Special Issues

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

Selected Software Artefacts from the Papers of DisCoTec 2025, Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming, edited by Roberto Casadei, Duncan Paul Attard, Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, and Emilio Incerto.
Selected Software Artefacts from the Papers of DisCoTec 2024, Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming, edited by Roberto Casadei, Duncan Paul Attard, Rumyana Neykova, and Emanuele D’Osualdo.
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, Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming, edited by Roberto Casadei, Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, Tom van Dijk, and Alceste Scalas.
Selected Papers of Coordination 2022, Special Issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science, edited by Maurice ter Beek and Marjan Sirjani.
Selected Software Artefacts from the Papers of DisCoTec 2022, Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming, edited by Ferruccio Damiani, David Eyers, and Anna Philippou.
Selected Papers of Coordination 2021, Special Issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science, edited by Ferruccio Damiani and Ornela Dardha.
Selected Papers of Coordination 2020, Special Issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science, edited by Simon Bliudze and Laura Bocchi.
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.
Selected Papers of Coordination 2019, Special Issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science, edited by Emilio Tuosto and Hanne Riis Nielsen.
Selected Tool Papers of Coordination 2019, Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming, edited by Hugo Torres Vieira and Omar Inverso.

Committees

Programme Committee

Co-Chairs

Clément Aubert (Augusta University, United States of America)
Cristina Seceleanu (Mälardalens universitet, Sweden)

Members

Fatemeh Ghassemi (University of Tehran, Iran)

Artefact Evaluation Committee

Chair

TBA

Members

TBA

Steering Committee

Chair

Michele Loreti (Università di Camerino, Italy)

Members

Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States of America)
Farhad Arbab (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
Simon Bliudze (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, France)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, United Kingdom)
Roberto Casadei (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Ilaria Castellani (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, France)
Ferruccio Damiani (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)
Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
Rocco De Nicola (Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Italy)
Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
Fatemeh Ghassemi (Dâneshgâh-e Tehrân, Iran)
Tom Holvoet (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Jean-Marie Jacquet (Université de Namur, Belgium)
Sung-Shik Jongmans (Swat.engineering, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)
Christine Julien (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States of America)
Eva Kühn (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark)
Antónia Lopes (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Mieke Massink (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
José Proença (Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal)
Marjan Sirjani (Mälardalens universitet, Sweden)
Carolyn Talcott (Stanford Research Institute, United States of America)
Maurice ter Beek (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
Francesco Tiezzi (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
Emilio Tuosto (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
Vasco T. Vasconcelos (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Mirko Viroli (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Gianluigi Zavattaro (Università di Bologna, Italy)

Contacts

For any queries, please contact the PC co-chairs Clément Aubert and Cristina Seceleanu at coordination2027@easychair.org.