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From: prc@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Peter Croll)
Subject: Final Call for Papers - Parallel & Distributed S/W Engineering
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:16:09 GMT
Message-ID: <3ulhe9$ong@hippo.shef.ac.uk>


              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

Sponsored by IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing)
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Workshop chair:		Innes Jelly 	(UK)

Co-chair:		Ian Gorton  	(Australia)	

Committee:
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Arndt Bode	  (Germany)	  Manfred Broy	   (Germany)	
Helmar Burkhart   (Switzerland)	  Peter Croll	   (UK)	
Ian Foster	  (USA)	  	  Cherri Pancake   (USA)
Brigitte Plateau  (France)	  John Potter	   (Australia)
Stefano Russo	  (Italy)	  Naoshi Uchihira  (Japan)	  

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 coordination models
 - 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
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In order to encourage exchange of information about the current 
collaborations  and established projects, a session for project 
reviews  is  planned.  Submissions for  this session (max. 2500 
words  to  be included  in  the  proceedings)  should  include: 
details  of   the  project   aims;  collaborating  institutions 
involved;  outline   of  achievements;   future directions  and 
related  publications. In addition, the workshop will include a 
special tools session during which participants can demonstrate 
their  CASE tools.  Contributors  intending to submit a project 
review or provide a demonstration should contact: 
Dr Ian Gorton. 	EMAIL: iango@syd.dit.csiro.au


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

Prospective  authors  should send a FULL paper (maximum of 5000 
words)  by 2nd October 1995 preferably by electronic submission 
in  Postscript  format  (see Web page)  or four copies by paper 
submission to Innes Jelly (see below). All papers will be fully 
refereed,  and  authors  will  be  notified  of  acceptance  by 
8th December 1995.  Camera-ready  copies  will  be  required by 
8th January 1996. The  proceedings  will  be  published in book 
form by Chapman & Hall in the IFIP conference series. 

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WEB:	Watch the web conference page for future details:
	http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~prc/PDSE.html
	and for further information of the ICSE-18 conference:
	http://www.gmd.de/Events/ICSE18/CFP.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 3763 (direct line), +44 1114 253 3169 (office)

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