Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: kdb@elis.rug.ac.be (Koen De Bosschere)
Subject: CFP: ParCo95
Organization: University of Ghent, Belgium
Date: 20 Dec 1994 12:14:56 GMT
Message-ID: <3d6hs0$ktu@infoserv.rug.ac.be>


                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                                 PARCO'95
                     
                   Fifth  International  Conference  on
                            Parallel Computing

                         September 19-22, 1995

                    International Conference Center
                             Gent, Belgium


    ParCo95  is  the  continuation  of  a  series   of   international 
    conferences  on parallel computing started more than a decade ago.  
    The  focus  is  on  the  application  of  all  types  of  parallel 
    computers.  The  last conference,  ParCo93,  was held in Grenoble, 
    France.  Previous conferences were  held  in  Berlin,  Leiden  and 
    London.  The  aim  of the conference is to give an overview of the 
    state-of-the-art of  the  development,  applications,  and  future 
    trends in parallel computing.  

TOPIC AREAS

 Topic 1: APPLICATIONS and ALGORITHMS

    The application of  parallel  computers  to  solve  all  types  of 
    business,   industrial,   scientific   and  engineering  problems; 
    numerical and non-numerical algorithms.  The emphasis should be on 
    the impact of the parallel processing paradigm.  

 Topic 2: SYSTEMS SOFTWARE

    Operating  systems,  languages  and compilers;  techniques such as 
    threading; scheduling, load balancing; message passing;  automatic 
    parallelisation, etc.  

 Topic 3: HARDWARE

    Parallel  computer hardware;  architectural concepts;  simulation; 
    communication systems, protocols; enabling technologies, etc.  

For each topic, aspects relating to

    - methodologies
    - software engineering and programming paradigms
    - development environments
    - performance and benchmarking
    - debugging
    - visualisation
    - etc.

may be discussed.  Preference will be given to papers discussing  real 
implementations and practical experiences.  

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME: 

The  scientific programme will consist of invited papers,  contributed 
papers,  and posters.  An industrial  session  and  an  exhibition  of 
equipment are also planned.  

PROCEEDINGS:

The refereed proceedings of the conference will be published after the 
conference.  

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Contributions  are  solicited for presentation as papers or posters in 
any of the topics listed above. Extended abstracts (approx. 1000 words 
including the most important references) should  outline  the  problem 
discussed.  The  relevance and originality of the contribution must be 
stated. Please indicate 

  - whether the contribution is to be presented as a paper or a poster;
  - in which of the topics listed above it should preferably be included. 

Four copies of the abstract must be submitted to the conference office 
before the due dates. The conference language is English.  


CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

  - Prof. Gerhard Joubert (D/NL)
  - Prof. Erik D'Hollander (B)
  - Prof. Frans Peters (NL)
  - Prof. Denis Trystram (F)

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

  - Prof. Erik D'Hollander
  - Prof. Koen De Bosschere
  - Prof. Jan Van Campenhout

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  - Denis Trystram, France (Chair) 
  - Jan Van Campenhout, Belgium (Vice-chair) 

  - F. Andre, France
  - F. Arbab, The Netherlands
  - H. Burkhart, USA
  - M. Cosnard, France
  - I.S. Duff, UK
  - A. Ferreira, France
  - I. Foster, USA
  - J.-M. Geib, France
  - R. Gruber, Switzerland
  - R. Hiromoto, USA
  - J.-C. Konig, France
  - G.M. Megson, UK
  - G.A. Libert, Belgium
  - B. Plateau, France
  - J. Roman, France
  - D. Roose, Belgium
  - W. Strasser, Germany
  - J. Tiberghien, Belgium
  - H.A. van der Vorst, The Netherlands
  - M.C. Vanwormhoudt, Belgium
  - H. Zima, Austria
  - W. Zwaenepoel, USA

CONFERENCE OFFICE

  ParCo95
  c/o Prof. Koen De Bosschere
  Universiteit Gent
  Vakgroep Elektronica en Informatiesystemen
  Parallel Information Systems Group
  Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41
  B-9000 Gent
  Belgium

  phone: +32-9-264.34.06
  fax:   +32-9-264.35.94
  email: parco95@elis.rug.ac.be
  ftp: ftp.elis.rug.ac.be; file pub/parco95/parco95.ps.Z
  url: htpp://www.elis.rug.ac.be/announce/parco95/cfp.html

IMPORTANT DATES

  Submission of Abstracts:  January 31, 1995
  Notification:             April 15, 1995
  Submission Posters:       June 30, 1995
  
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