Proceedings 14th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems

TL;DR

This collection of workshop proceedings discusses formal methods and coordination languages essential for developing correct, adaptable, and maintainable distributed service-oriented systems, emphasizing the importance of formal approaches in modern software engineering.

Contribution

The workshop consolidates recent research on formal modeling and reasoning techniques for self-adaptive systems and coordination languages, fostering collaboration among researchers and practitioners.

Findings

Formal approaches aid in correctness proofs of adaptive systems.

Coordination languages improve reusability and maintainability.

Automated synthesis of systems is facilitated by formal methods.

Abstract

This volume contains the proceedings of FOCLASA 2015, the 14th International Workshop on the Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems. FOCLASA 2015 was held in Madrid, Spain, on September 5, 2015 as a satellite event of CONCUR 2015, the 26th 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, automated synthesis of correct-by-construction systems, 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.