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From: prc@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Peter Croll)
Subject: Call for Papers: Parallel & Distributed Software Engineering
Summary: Preliminary Call for Papers and Project Reviews
Keywords: Parallel, Distributed, Software Engineering
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 15:49:20 GMT
Message-ID: <3s46a0$iii@hippo.shef.ac.uk>

         Preliminary Call for Papers and Project Reviews
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        1st International Workshop on Software Engineering 
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              for Parallel and Distributed Systems
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                   25th and 26th March, 1996

   At the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering 
        (ICSE-18) Technische Universitat BERLIN, Germany


Steering committee:

Innes Jelly - Workshop Chair	(UK)	
Arndt Bode		(Germany)			
Manfred Broy		(Germany)		
Helmar Burkhart		(Switzerland)	
Peter Croll		(UK)	
Ian Gorton		(Australia)	
Stefano Russo		(Italy)
Ian Foster		(USA)
Naoshi Uchihira		(Japan)
John Potter		(Australia)

OVERVIEW
========

Many software applications require the use of explicit parallel
programming  techniques  in  order to meet their specification. 
Parallelism is needed to exploit the processing power of multi-
processor  systems  in  order  to  achieve high performance, to 
provide fault-tolerance and reliability in safety-critical  and 
real-time systems, and  to  deal  with  physically  distributed 
computing resources.

While the range of existing software  and  hardware  technology 
that  can  be  employed  in  parallel  and  distributed systems 
development is massive, a set of underlying problems  concerned 
solely with the use of parallelism can be identified.

Briefly these include:

 - identification of problem-domain and solution-domain 
      parallelism
 - incorporation of concurrent activities in specification and 
      design
 - architectural influences on design and implementation, 
      including use of virtual machines
 - correctness and testing of systems
 - performance prediction, monitoring and evaluation of systems  
 - systems heterogenity

Importantly,  software engineers must deal with these issues in 
addition  to tackling  the  more commonly  identified  problems 
which occur in all software projects.

WORKSHOP AIMS
=============

The aim of the workshop is to  provide  a forum for exchange of
information and  publication  of  the latest  technological and 
theoretical  advances in  software engineering for parallel and 
distributed  systems. The workshop  would focus on the problems 
that are unique to the  software  engineer developing  parallel 
and  distributed  systems.  To this  end,  the  following  non-
exhaustive list of topics will be considered:

 - development methodologies 
 - impact of languages and architectures on development 
    techniques
 - application of formal methods
 - testing and verification
 - performance modelling and prediction
 - software reuse technology
 - design templates and skeletons 
 - CASE environments and support tools
 - object oriented techniques and design templates
 - practical experiences of software engineering problems 
    encountered in industrial systems 

The  workshop  will be  of  interest  to  both  industrial  and
academic practitioners  and  researchers who have experience in 
developing  software for  parallel and  distributed systems. It 
will also  be relevant to practising software engineers who are 
interested  in  developing  expertise  in  the field of general 
parallel computation for research and development purposes.


Project Reviews and Demonstrations
==================================

In order to encourage exchange of information about the current
collaborations  and  established projects, we plan to include a 
session  for  project  reviews.  Submissions  for this  session 
should  include  details  of  the  project  aims,  institutions 
involved  and  an  outline  of current work. Further details to 
follow, or contact Dr Ian Gorton (see contact details below).


Submission of Papers
====================

Prospective  authors  should  send  four copies of a full paper 
(maximum  of  5000 words)  by 1st October  1995  preferably  by 
electron  submission  in  Postscript  format using the web page 
or  by  paper  submission to Dr Innes Jelly. All papers will be 
fully refereed,  and authors  will be notified of acceptance by 
December 15th.  Camera-ready copies will be required by January 
15th  1996.   We  are  currently  negotiating  with  publishers 
interested in publishing the proceedings internationally.

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Watch the web conference page for future details:
 
	http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~prc/PDSE.html

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Paper submissions and further enquiries to:

Dr Innes Jelly, Computing Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam 
University, Napier Street, Sheffield, S11 8HD, UK
EMAIL: i.jelly@shu.ac.uk
FAX: +44 114 253 3161
TEL: +44 114 253 3663 (direct line), +44 1114 253 3169 (office)

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Further details and enquires on the Project Reviews and 
Demonstrations to:

Dr Ian Gorton, Project Manager, 
Distributed Interactive Multimedia Systems
CSIRO Division of Information Technology
Locked Bag 17, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia 
EMAIL: iango@syd.dit.csiro.au
FAX: +61 2 325 3101
TEL: +61 2 325 3160

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