This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International

Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2016, held

in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in June 2016, as part of the 11th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2016.

The 16 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and

selected from 44 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics

and techniques related to system coordination, including: programming and

communication abstractions; communication protocols and behavioural types;

actors and concurrent objects; tuple spaces; games, interfaces and contracts; information flow policies and dissemination techniques; and probabilistic models

and formal verification.