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Coordination Models and Languages: 5th International Conference, Coordination 2002, York, Uk, April 8-11, 2002 Proceedings - Lecture Notes in Computer Science F Arbab

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Invited Presentations.- Playing Games with Software Design.- Coordination and System Design in a Network-Centric Age.- Time, Knowledge, and Cooperation: Alternating-Time Temporal Epistemic Logic and Its Applications.- Accepted Papers.- Coordination for Orchestration.- Concurrent Semantics for the Web Services Specification Language DAML-S.- Coordination through Channel Composition.- Exogenous and Endogenous Extensions of Architectural Types.- Coordinating Mobile Object-Oriented Code.- Formalizing Properties of Mobile Agent Systems.- Dynamically Adapting the Behaviour of Software Components.- An Associative Broadcast Based Coordination Model for Distributed Processes.- State and Event-Based Reactive Programming in Shared Dataspaces.- Integrating Two Organizational Systems through Communication Genres.- OpenCoLaS a Coordination Framework for CoLaS Dialects.- Coordination in a Reflective Architecture Description Language.- Coordinating Software Evolution via Two-Tier Programming.- Criteria for the Analysis of Coordination in Multi-agent Applications.- Towards a Colimit-Based Semantics for Visual Programming.- The Cost of Communication Protocols and Coordination Languages in Embedded Systems.- Operational Semantics for Coordination in Paradigm.- Service Provision in Ad Hoc Networks.- PN2: An Elementary Model for Design and Analysis of Multi-agent Systems.- A Recovery Technique Using Multi-agent in Distributed Computing Systems.- An Order-Based, Distributed Algorithm for Implementing Multiparty Interactions.- Exploiting Transiently Shared Tuple Spaces for Location Transparent Code Mobility.- Formal Specification of JavaSpaces Architecture Using ?CRL.- Objective vs. Subjective Coordination in Agent-Based Systems: A Case Study.- Scheduling under Uncertainty: Planning for the Ubiquitous Grid.- Using Logical Operators as an Extended Coordination Mechanism in Linda.- A Framework for Coordinating Parallel Branch and Bound Algorithms.- Policies for Cooperative Virtual Teams.- The Spacetub Models and Framework.- Tuple-Based Models in the Observation Framework.- Extending the Matching Facilities of Linda.- Semantics of Protocol Modules Composition and Interaction."Publisher Marketing: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2002, held in York, UK, in April 2002. The 18 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. Among the topics addressed are network-centric systems design, concurrent semantics, mobile object systems, mobile agent systems, software components, distributed processes, coordination frameworks, reflective architectures, multi-agent systems engineering, communication protocols, formal specification and cooperative virtual teams.