This year's edition of the international federated conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques took place in Lisbon during June 9-11. It was hosted by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and formally organized by the Institute of Telecommunications, the research center I am associated with. The DisCoTecconferences jointly coverthe completespectrum ofdistributed computing subjects ranging from theoretical foundations to formal speci?cation techniques to practical considerations. The event this year comprised the 11th InternationalConferenceonCoordinationModelsandLanguages(COORDINA- TION), the 9th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and InteroperableSystems(DAIS),andtheIFIPInternationalConferenceonFormal TechniquesforDistributedSystems(FMOODS/FORTE).COORDINATION- cused on languages, models, and architectures for concurrent and distributed software; DAIS on methods, techniques, and system infrastructures needed to design, build, operate, evaluate, and manage modern distributed applications in any kind of application environment and scenario; and FMOODS (the 11th F- mal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems) jointed forces with FORTE (the 29th Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems) creating a forum for fundamental research on theory and applications of d- tributed systems.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems, FMOODS 2009, and 29th IFIP WG 6.1 Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems, FORTE 2009, held in Lisboa, Portugal, in June 2009.
The 12 revised full papers presented together with 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers cover topics such as formal verification, algorithms and implementations, modeling and testing, process algebra and calculus as well as analysis of distributed systems.