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: 24 March 2026
• Camera-ready: 3 April 2026 (hard)

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

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=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.

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.

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, 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.

Programme Committee

Co-Chairs

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

Programme Committee members

• S. Akshay (IIT Bombay, India)
• Duncan Paul Attard (University of Malta, Malta)
• Giorgio Audrito (University of Turin, Italy)
• Simon Bliudze (INRIA, France)
• Cinzia Di Giusto (Université Côte d’Azur, France)
• Francisco Ferreira (University of London, UK)
• Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad, Mathematical Institute SASA, Serbia)
• Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, France; IRIF)
• Thomas T. Hildebrandt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Ping Hou (University of Oxford, UK)
• Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, Italy)
• Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy)
• Stefano Mariani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
• Hernán C. Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
• Carlos López Pombo ( Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina; CONICET)
• José Proença (University of Porto, Portugal)
• Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
• António Ravara (NOVA LINCS, Portugal)
• Marjan Sirjani (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
• Carolyn L. Talcott (SRI International, USA)
• Maurice H. ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
• Nils Timm (University of Pretoria, South Africa )

Artefact Evaluation Committee chair

Gianluca Aguzzi (University of Bologna, Italy)

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.