Abstract: A goal of the present invention is to allow programmers to build software systems without regard to a specific target hardware architecture on which the software system will be implemented. An aspect of this is a high-level, coordination-centric, design methodology that permits programmers to explicitly declare the way control and data interactions between software components are coordinated. Coordination synthesis generates selectively optimizable implementation code to implement the coordination-centric software application on a target hardware architecture, and generates appropriate coordination code to implement the coordination scheme for the software application with the target hardware architecture's supported interaction protocols.