1st Workshop on Coordination in Complex Software Intensive Systems, Fukuoka, Japan

<pre>Today=92s networks and systems are going through a rapid evolution&#046;<br>Different kinds of systems with different characteristics are emerging<br>and integrating in heterogeneous networks&#046; The focus of this development<br>has shifted from developing algorithms to the complexity of structuring<br>large systems, and furthermore to overcome the additional complexity in<br>building distributed, concurrent systems&#046; Complex systems highly depend<br>on software that controls the behavior of individual components and the<br>interaction between components, and on software which interacts with<br>other software, systems, devices, sensors and with people&#046; Extremely<br>complex coordination requirements to keep up effectiveness, performance<br>and quality of the complex system have to be accomplished&#046; An example<br>for these complexity issues is the production automation domain&#046;<br>Software agents representing the functionality of production machines<br>need to coordinate themselves in order to achieve a common goal like an<br>efficient and effective production system&#046;<br>The workshop aims at to investigating the many approaches for<br>collaboration and coordination of autonomous communication entities in<br>complex software intensive systems&#046; The workshop intends to put together<br>researchers and practitioners of the aforementioned fields, to share and<br>identify common problems, and to devise general solutions&#046;<br>Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:<br>Autonomous systems<br>Multi&#8211;agent systems and architectures<br>Distributed problem solving<br>Collaboration and negotiation protocols<br>Semantics as coordination support<br>Self&#8211;adapting and self&#8211;healing systems<br>Middleware architectures for coordination<br>Programming abstractions and languages<br>Case studies</pre>