Proceedings 13th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems

TL;DR

The FOCLASA 2014 workshop proceedings focus on formal methods, coordination languages, and self-adaptive systems to improve development, correctness, and maintainability of complex distributed software systems.

Contribution

This volume compiles research on formal approaches and coordination languages that address self-adaptation and distributed system challenges.

Findings

Formal models aid in reasoning about self-adaptive behavior

Coordination languages improve system reusability and correctness

Formal approaches facilitate development of complex distributed systems

Abstract

This volume contains the proceedings of FOCLASA 2014, the 13th International Workshop on the Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems. FOCLASA 2014 was held in Rome, Italy, on September 9, 2014 as a satellite event of CONCUR 2014, the 25th International Conference on Concurrency Theory. Modern software systems are distributed, concurrent, mobile, and often involve composition of heterogeneous components and stand-alone services. Service coordination and self-adaptation constitute the core characteristics of distributed and service-oriented systems. Coordination languages and formal approaches to modelling and reasoning about self-adaptive behaviour help to simplify the development of complex distributed service-based systems, enable functional correctness proofs and improve reusability and maintainability of such systems. The goal of the FOCLASA workshop is to put together researchers and practitioners of the aforementioned fields, to share and identify common problems, and to devise general solutions in the context of coordination languages and self-adaptive systems.