Preface: Special issue on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures (selected papers from FOCLASA'09)

摘要

This issue contains extended versions of selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures (FOCLASA'09). A number of hot research topics are currently sharing the common problem of combining concurrent, distributed, mobile and heterogeneous components, trying to harness the intrinsic complexity of the resulting systems. Coordination languages and software architectures are recognised as fundamental approaches to tackle these issues, improving software productivity, enhancing maintainability, advocating modularity, promoting reusability, and leading to systems more tractable and more amenable to verification and global analysis.