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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>This is an open call for contributions to the <b>special issue</b> “Coordination and Self-Adaptiveness of Software Applications”. The special issue belongs to the Elsevier journal “<b>Science of Computer Programming</b>” (ISSN: 0167-6423).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>*** Aims and scope ***<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>Nowadays software systems are distributed, concurrent, mobile, and often involve the composition of heterogeneous components and stand-alone (micro)services. Service coordination, service orchestration and self-adaptation constitute the core characteristics of distributed and service-oriented systems. Theoretical/practical approaches to modelling and reasoning about (self-)adaptive behaviour help to simplify the development of complex distributed systems, enable their validation and evaluation, and improve interoperability, reusability and maintainability of such systems. The goal of the this special issue is to allow researchers and practitioners to discuss common problems and present novel solutions in the aforementioned fields. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) both theoretical and practical solutions for what follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>* Coordination, orchestration, composition and adaptation of components, services or microservices.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>* Business processes and concurrent system modelling. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>* Languages and models for component and service interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>* Cloud/fog/edge computing, and large-scale distributed systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>* Dynamic software architectures, self-adaptive, self-monitoring and self-organizing systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>* Peer-to-peer and multi-agent systems, and blockchains.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>* QoS observation, storage, history-based analysis in self-adaptive systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>*** Important dates ***<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>Submission deadline: February 29th, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>First notification: Apr 20th, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>Revised Manuscript: July 10th, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>Final notification: August 31st, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>*** Guest Editors ***<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>*** Submission instructions ***<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>Detailed instructions about manuscript formatting can be found at <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'> <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/science-of-computer-programming/0167-6423/guide-for-authors">https://www.elsevier.com/journals/science-of-computer-programming/0167-6423/guide-for-authors</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>The submission site is available at <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'> <a href="https://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp">https://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>When submitting, specify "<b>VSI: FOCLASA 2019</b>" as the Special Issue name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>With our Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Consolas'>Ernesto Pimentel and Jacopo Soldani<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>