Giuseppe Coviello Presents at HiPES 2026 | Euro-Par in Pisa, Italy on August 25th

The paper, titled “Völ: A Domain-Specific Language and Runtime for AI-Native Workflows,” introduces a new language and runtime pairing built for coordinating the models, tools and agents that make up a modern AI application. The paper’s authors include lead author Giuseppe Coviello, Mohammad A. Khojastepour, Willard Dennis, Kunal Rao and Srimat T. Chakradhar at NEC Laboratories America.

Völ addresses a challenge built into modern AI applications: coordinating multiple models, tools and agents within a single workflow. Rather than requiring developers to write custom orchestration code for every project, Völ lets them describe a workflow declaratively, specifying what a workflow should produce rather than the step-by-step instructions for producing it. The Völ runtime then handles execution, scheduling and resource management beneath that specification, absorbing complexity that would otherwise land on the application developer.

HiPES brings together a focused community working at the intersection of high-performance computing and smart systems, positioning this presentation alongside research tackling similar infrastructure challenges from different angles. Euro-Par has run as a major venue for parallel, distributed computing research for close to three decades, drawing academic and industry researchers from across the field each year.