CoOrg'05: Workshop on Coordination and Organisation

Organizations embody a powerful way to coordinate complex behavior in human society. Different models of organisations exist, from bureaucratic systems based on norms to competitive systems based on markets. Moreover, organizational concepts allow to structure the behavior of complex entities in a hierarchy of encapsulated entities: departments structured in roles, organisations structured in departments, and interorganizational coordination structured in organizations. Organizations specify the interaction and communication possibilities of each of these entities, abstracting from the implementation of their behavior. Since these entities are autonomous, they can only be coordinated exogeneously.

CoOrg 2005 aims at meeting researchers studying coordination and organisations in cognitive science, social sciences, agent theory, computer science, philosophy, ... to discuss the current state of the art and identify potential future directions and research issues.

Contact: L. van der Torre and G. Boella
Web site: http://boid.info/CoOrg05

InterDB'05: Workshop on Database Interoperability

Most large organizations maintain their data in many distinct independent databases that have been developed at different times on different platforms and data management systems. This explosion of massive and heterogeneous data sets necessitates powerful and intelligent interoperability mechanisms so that users can access to these data.

This workshop is intended to bring together researchers who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of database interoperability. The goal is to provide an effective forum for researchers in the area of database interoperability to exchange up-to-date technical knowledge and experience and to debate new issues and directions for research and development work in the future.

Contact: P. Thiran, T. Risch, and D. Benslimane
Web site: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/InterDB05

MTCoord'05: Workshop on Methods and Tools for Coordinating Concurrent, Distributed and Mobile Systems

Various classes of computational models, languages, and formalisms have emerged in the aim of providing high-level descriptions of concurrent, distributed, and mobile systems. Typical examples include so-called coordination languages and models (e.g. Gamma, Linda, Manifold, Reo, Klaim, Lime, ...), concurrent constraint languages (e.g. cc languages, Mozart, ...) and process algebras (e.g. CSP, CCS, pi-calculus, ...).

These models are based on generative communication via a shared data space or on data communication through channels. In both cases, software components are typically conceived in isolation assuming that the required data will eventually be available. However, making a whole system out of these components and, in particular, ensuring that interactions occur properly is far from being obvious. The aim of the workshop is precisely to bring together researchers, working in different communities (coordination, constraints, process algebras), on methods and tools for the construction of concurrent, distributed and mobile systems.

Contact: L. Brim and I. Linden
Web site: http://info.fundp.ac.be/MTCoord