Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: pnixon@news.cs.tcd.de (Paddy Nixon)
Subject: CFP: 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin
Date: 17 Jan 1996 12:16:45 GMT
Message-ID: <4dipbd$cu4@news.cs.tcd.ie>


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                   Call For Papers and Referees
                  
                    Software Technology Track
                              of the
     30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-30
                Maui, Hawaii - January 7-10, 1997

Dear Colleague,

Please find attached a Call for Papers for the 30th HICSS Software
Technology Track. I particularly draw your attention to the mini-track
on Software Engineering for Distributed Systems which we are
organising. I would like to strongly encourage you to submit a paper
for this mini-track. In the spirit of HICSS this mini-track will
encourage discussion on the state-of-the-art in Software Construction
for Distributed Systems. The motivation for the mini-track comes from
the percieved need for design approaches which enable the development
of quality distributed software systems.

We are also currently in discussions regarding the possibiliy of
arranging a special issue of a Journal. The best papers from the
mini-track will be considered, in revised form, for this issue.

Submissions can be made by post to :

        Dr. Patrick Nixon,
        Dept. of Computer Science,
        Trinity College,
        University of Dublin,
        Dublin 2, IRELAND.

PostScript or ASCII Text files ONLY can be submitted electronically
by:

        Email to: Paddy.Nixon@cs.tcd.ie 

Further information can be found on the Web at:

        http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/~pnixon/hicss30.html

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to recieving your
submissions.



Paddy Nixon, Vinny Cahill, Fethi Rabhi (The coordinators)


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                   Call For Papers and Referees

                    Software Technology Track
                              of the
     30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-30
                Maui, Hawaii - January 7-10, 1997
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Authors are invited to submit papers describing the new advances in theory, 
design, implementation, use, application, and performance evaluation of high 
performance distributed systems. We welcome papers that may be theoretical, 
conceptual, tutorial, or descriptive in nature. The Software Technology Track 
consists of ten (10) minitracks that cover a broad selection of timely and 
important topics in the area of distributed systems. The specific topics and 
coordinators of the minitracks are listed at the end of this call. Individuals
interested in refereeing papers should contact the minitrack coordinators 
directly.
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Instructions for Authors
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Submit a 300-word abstract and then eight (8) copies of the manuscript to 
one of the minitrack coordinators according to their areas of responsibility 
by the given deadlines. Manuscripts should have an abstract and be 22-25 
typewritten, double-spaced pages in length. Papers must not have been 
previously presented or published, nor currently submitted for journal 
publication. Each manuscript will be subjected to a rigorous refereeing 
process involving at least five reviewers. 
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Track Chairman
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Hesham El-Rewini
Department of Computer Science
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182  
Phone:  (402) 554-2852 
Fax:    (402) 554-2975 
Email: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu
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Track Advisory Committee
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o Gul Agha, University of Illinois, USA
o Khalil M. Ahmed, University of Alexandria, EGYPT
o Jim Anderson, University of North Carolina, USA
o Jim Costa, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
o Karsten M. Decker, Swiss Scientific Computing Center, SWITZERLAND
o Alois Ferscha, Universitaet Wien, AUSTRIA
o Apostolos Gerasoulis, Rutgers University, USA
o Wolfgang A. Halang, Fernuniversitaet, GERMANY
o Alexey Lastovetsky, Institute for System Programming, RUSSIA
o Thomson Leighton, MIT, USA
o Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA
o Alok Sinha, Microsoft, USA
o Pradip Srimani, Colorado State University, USA
o Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA
o Caetano Traina Junior, University of Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
o Peter Wegner, Brown University, USA
o Chung-Kwong Yuen, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
o Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
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1996 Deadlines
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o  A 300-word abstract by March 15
o  Feedback to author on abstract by April 15
o  Eight copies of the manuscript by June 1
o  Notification of accepted papers by August 31
o  Camera-ready copies of accepted manuscripts are due by October 1
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Tutorials
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Tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, January 7, 1997. Interested speakers 
should submit full-day or half-day proposals to the track chairman by March 
15, 1996.
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HICSS Information
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http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss
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Topics and Coordinators of the Minitracks
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1) OBJECT-ORIENTED METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS

   Object-oriented modeling of high-performance distributed systems,
   designing distributed object systems using CORBA or COM, experience
   of applying object-oriented methods to distributed systems, integrating 
   object-oriented techniques with formal validation  and verification 
   techniques, object-oriented design patterns for distributed systems.

        COORDINATORS
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        Ian Gorton, iango@syd.dit.csiro.au
        CSIRO Division of Information Technology
        Locked Bag 17, North Ryde, 
        Sydney  NSW 2113, AUSTRALIA

        Innes Jelly, i.e.jelly@shu.ac.uk
        School of Computing and Management Sciences
        Sheffield Hallam University,
        Sheffield S11 8HD, UK

        Peter Croll, prc@dcs.shef.ac.uk
        Dept. of Computer Science
        University of Sheffield
        Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK

        Guido Wirtz, guidow@math.uni-muenster.de
        Institut fuer Informatik, Fachbereich Mathematik,
        Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster,  Einsteinstrasse 62,
        D-48149 Muenster, GERMANY
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2) DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS PLATFORMS

   Comparison of object-based distributed systems, compatibility issues 
   and emerging object standards: OLE, CORBA, OODCE, etc., distributed 
   objects over the web, distributed object services: security, trading,
   transactions, replication, etc., performance evaluation, experiences,
   implementation issues.

        COORDINATORS
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        Rachid Guerraoui, guerraoui@lse.epfl.ch
        DI-LSE EPFL IN-Ecublens
        1015 Lausanne 
        Switzerland

        Steve Vinoski, vinoski@ch.hp.com
        Hewlett-Packard, MS CHR-03-DW
        300 Apollo Drive
        Chelmsford, MA 01824
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3) PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS

   Design and analysis of parallel and distributed algorithms in:
   graph theory, image processing, computational geometry, networks 
   and combinatorics, applications and cost models.

        COORDINATORS
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        Michael A. Langston, langston@cs.utk.edu
        Department of Computer Science
        University of Tennessee
        Knoxville, TN 37996-1301

        Stephan Olariu, olariu@cs.odu.edu
        Department of Computer Science
        Old Dominion University
        Norfolk, VA 23529-0162

        James. L. Schwing, schwing@cs.odu.edu
        Department of Computer Science
        Old Dominion University
        Norfolk, VA 23529-0162
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4) MULTI-THREADED SYSTEMS

   Programming languages for multi-threaded systems, analytical 
   performance models, empirical performance studies, multiple
   context processors, interleaving of multiple threads, cache 
   memory designs, fine-grained and coarse grained multithreading,
   runtime and kernel support for multithreading. 

        COORDINATORS
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        Krishna Kavi, kavi@cse.uta.edu
        Department of Computer Science Engineering
        University of Texas at Arlington
        Arlington, TX 76019-0015

        A.R. Hurson, a2h@ecl.psu.edu
        Dept. of  ECE
        The Pennsylvania State University
        University Park, PA 16802
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5) COORDINATION LANGUAGES, MODELS, SYSTEMS

   Models, languages and mechanisms for coordination,  operating system 
   and middleware support for coordination, compiling techniques and 
   semantic issues for coordination languages, coordination in software 
   architecture design, case studies with industrial relevance.

        COORDINATOR
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        Paolo Ciancarini, cianca@cs.unibo.it
        Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Bologna
        Pza. di Porta S.Donato, 5, 40127 Bologna, ITALY
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6) SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

   Development methodologies of distributed software systems,
   specification, verification and validation, application of formal
   methods, prototyping, testing, and performance measurement, impact
   of distributed or parallel languages and architectures on
   development techniques, CASE tools and run-time support
   environments, problems encountered in industrial systems, software
   reuse.

         Patrick Nixon, Paddy.Nixon@cs.tcd.ie
         Dept. of Computer Science 
         Trinity College,
         University of Dublin, IRELAND

         Vinny Cahill, Vinny.Cahill@dsg.cs.tcd.ie
         Dept. of Computer Science 
         Trinity College
         University of Dublin, IRELAND

         Fethi Rabhi, F.A.Rabhi@dcs.hull.ac.uk
         Parallel Processing Group
         Dept. of Computer Science
         University of Hull, Hull, UK
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7) DISTRIBUTED PERSISTENT ARCHITECTURES

   Models of distribution in persistent systems, resilience in distributed
   persistent systems, replication in persistent systems, protection in
   distributed persistent systems, concurrency control for persistent
   systems,garbage collection in distributed persistent systems, and
   experiences with distributed persistent applications.

        COORDINATORS
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        John Rosenberg, johnr@cs.su.oz.au
        Department of Computer Science
        University of Adelaide
        N.S.W. 2006, AUSTRALIA

        Alan Dearle, al@cs.stir.ac.uk
        Department of Computer Science
        University of Stirling
        FK9 4LA, SCOTLAND

        Richard Connor, richard@dcs.st-and.ac.uk
        Department of Mathematical and Computational Science
        University of St Andrews
        St Andrews, KY10 0DR
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8) PARTITIONING AND SCHEDULING 

   Static and dynamic scheduling, partitioning schemes, load balancing, 
   performance and benchmarking, impact of granularity, heterogeneous 
   systems and clusters, decomposition of mathematical and engineering 
   applications, tools, compilers for task clustering and scheduling. 

        COORDINATORS
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	Ishfaq Ahmad, iahmad@cs.ust.hk
	Dept. of Computer Science
	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
	Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, HONG KONG

        Sekhar Darbha, darbha@ece.rutgers.edu
        Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
        Rutgers University
        Piscataway, NJ 08855-0909.
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9) DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENTS

   Virtual world representation, distributed modeling and simulation,
   multimedia data processing, networking issues, communication issues, 
   user interface, performance evaluation.

        COORDINATOR
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	Guenter Haring, haring@ani.univie.ac.at
	Institut Fuer Angewandte Informatik
	Universitaet Wien, Lanaugasse 2/8
	A-1080 Vienna, AUSTRIA
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10) DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA AND COLLABORATION OVER THE WEB 

   OS support for  resource admission, allocation and scheduling, media 
   and clock synchronization, networking architectures and protocols,
   static/dynamic load management strategies, distributed multimedia 
   applications, web-based collaborative applications, support for
   collaboration over the web, support for security and privacy, 
   scalability, concurrency control, floor control, access control, etc.

        COORDINATORS
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        Atul Prakash, aprakash@eecs.umich.edu
        Department of EECS,  
        University of Michigan, 
        Ann Arbor 48109-2122

        Nalini Venkatasubramanian, nalini@gaia.hpl.hp.com
        Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
        1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1U-17
        Palo Alto CA 94304

        Klara Nahrstedt, klara@cs.uiuc.edu
        Dept. of Computer Science
        3111 Digital Computer Laboratory
        1304 West Springfield Ave.
        Urbana IL 61801
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