Coordination and Adaptation Techniques: Bridging the gap between design and implementation

Coordination and Adaptation are two key issues when developing complex distributed systems. Coordination focuses on the interaction among software entities. Adaptation focuses on solving the problems that arise when the interacting entities do not match properly. This is the report of the third edition of the WCAT workshop, that took place in Nantes jointly with ECOOP 2006. In this third edition, the topics of interest of the participants covered a large number of fields where coordination and adaptation have an impact: models, requirements identification, interface specification, extra-functional properties, automatic generation, frameworks, middleware, and tools. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.