Preface to the special issue on Coordination Models and Languages (Coordination 2010)

摘要

This issue of Science of Computer Programming is devoted to papers selected from the 12th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (Coordination 2010), which took place as a part of the federated conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques (DisCoTec'10), held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 7-9 June 2010. Coordination focuses on software technologies for collaboration and coordination in concurrent, distributed, and socio-technical systems. A distinctive feature of Coordination is the emphasis on high level abstractions capturing interaction patterns at all levels of a system and extending into the realm of the end-user and social domain. It is an exciting time for Coordination, with the emergence of new and important technologies such as wireless sensor networks, cloud computing, and multicore processors, along with the increasing prevalence of software in society via the multitude of mobile networked devices.