Current developments and future challenges of coordination in pervasive environments

With the miniaturization of computing elements, their increasing number interconnection, and penetration of our daily lives, pervasive computing environments start to become more and more complex. This results in an apparent claim for improved coordination mechanisms, to optimize, to enhance effectiveness and eventually to provide the users with a sufficient level of quality. We took this as our motivation to investigate the concept of coordination applied to pervasive environments in more details. This report is the summary of the CoMA workshop held at IEEE WET-ICE 2007 and highlights the current research efforts and outlines potential future challenges with respect to coordination in pervasive environments.