                             ICE 2012
            5th Interaction and Concurrency Experience
                 June 16, 2012, Stockholm, Sweden
   http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/-ICE-2012-.html

            Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2012
                      http://discotec.ict.kth.se/

=== Highlights ===

- Invited talks: Marcello Bonsangue & Ichiro Hasuo
- Innovative selection procedure
- Special issue of Scientific Annals of Computer Science
(http://www.info.uaic.ro/bin/Annals/)

=== Important Dates ===

30 March 2012................Abstract submission
04 April 2012...................Full paper submission
18 April - 12 May 2012....Reviews, rebuttal and PC discussion
16 May 2012....................Notification to authors
30 May 2012....................Camera-ready for pre-proceedings
16 June 2012...................ICE in Stockholm
15 Sept 2012...................Camera-ready for post-proceedings

=== Scope ===

Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is a series of
international scientific meetings oriented to theoretical computer
science researchers with special interest in models, verification,
tools and programming primitives for complex interactions.

The general scope of the venue includes theoretical and applied
aspects of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among
components of concurrent/distributed systems, but every experience focuses
on a different specific topic (see "Previous Editions" at the end of
this call) related to several areas of computer science in the broad
spectrum ranging from formal specification and analysis to studies
inspired by emerging computational models.

The theme of ICE 2012 is

***Distributed coordination, execution models, and resilient interaction***.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Process algebra and coordination: transformation, analysis and implementation
- Models for distributed coordination and semantics
- Techniques and tools for specification, analysis, verification of resilient interaction
- Languages, protocols and mechanisms for sound distributed coordination
- Logics and types for interactions
- Comparison among different coordination and/or execution models
- Expressive power of coordination languages and execution models
- Formal semantics of coordination languages
- Formal verification of distributed coordinated architectures
- Relating different semantic models for coordination languages

=== Selection Procedure ===

Since its 1st edition in 2008, the distinguishing feature of ICE has
been an innovative paper selection mechanism based
on an interactive discussion amongst authors and PC members.

During the review phase, each submitted paper is published on a Wiki
and associated with a discussion forum whose access will be restricted
to the authors and all the PC members who do not have a conflict of
interests with the paper.
The PC members post comments/questions that the authors shall reply
to.

As witnessed by the past four editions of ICE, this procedure considerably
improves the accuracy of the feedback from reviews, the fairness of
the selection, the quality of camera-ready papers, and the discussion
during the workshop.

=== The Public Wiki ===

After the notification, the accepted papers will be published on a public
forum, in order to initiate public discussions that will trigger and
stimulate the scientific debate at the workshop. We believe that this
will drive the workshop discussions and let prospective participants
interact with each other much earlier than in more traditional events.

=== Submission Guidelines ===

Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be
simultaneously submitted to other conferences/workshops with
refereed proceedings. The ICE 2012 post-proceedings will be
published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
(http://eptcs.org/).

Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2012) and should not
exceed 15 pages with the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/).

Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the
authors.

=== Special Issue ===

Full versions of the best papers selected by the PC will be invited
to appear in a special issue of the journal of Scientific Annals of
Computer Science (http://www.info.uaic.ro/bin/Annals/).
Such contributions will be regularly peer-reviewed according to the
standard journal policy, but they will be handled in a shorter time
than regular submissions.

=== Program Committee ===

Lucia Acciai (University of Firenze, Italy)
Luca Aceto (Reykjavik University, Iceland)
Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland)
Laura Bocchi (University of Leicester, United Kingdom)
Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, France)
Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy)
Marco Carbone (co-chair)
Vincenzo Ciancia (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Pierre-Malo Denielou (Imperial College, United Kingdom)
Cinzia Di Giusto (CEA, France)
Tobias Heindel (CEA, France)
Tom Hirschowitz (CNRS, France)
Bartek Klin (Warsaw University, Poland)
Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (IMT Lucca, Italy)
Bas Luttik (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Manuel Mazzara (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
Mohammadreza Mousavi (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Damien Pous (CNRS, France)
Jens-Wolfhard Schicke-Uffmann (TU Braunschweig, Germany )
Alexandra Silva (co-chair)
Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria)
Francesco Tiezzi (IMT Lucca, Italy)
Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, United Kingdom)
Erik de Vink (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

=== ICEcreamers ===

- Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; co-chair)
- Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy)
- Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen & CWI, The Netherlands; HasLab / INESC TEC, Portugal; co-chair)
- Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria)

=== Contact ===

ice2012@easychair.org

=== Previous editions ===

The previous four editions of ICE have been held on
* July 6th, 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland with focus on
Synchronous and Asynchronous Interactions in Concurrent/
Distributed Systems, co-located with ICALP'08.
The post-proceedings were published in ENTCS (vol.229-3).
* August 31st, 2009 in Bologna, Italy with focus on
Structured Interactions, co-located with CONCUR'09.
The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.12)
and a special issue of MSCS is in preparation.
* June 10th, 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands with focus
on Guaranteed Interactions, co-located with DisCoTec'10.
The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.38)
and selected papers appeared in a joint special issue of SACS (with CAMPUS'10 and
CS2BIO'10, Vol. XXI).
* June 9th, 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland with focus on Reliable and Contract-based Interactions, co-located with DisCoTec'11.
The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.59)
and a special issue of SACS is now in preparation.

=== Workshop Sponsors ===

CEA-List
Computer Science Department - University of Bologna