Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: cypher@maldives.cs.jhu.edu (Robert Cypher)
Subject: SPAA'96 Call For Papers
Organization: JHU Computer Science Department
Date: 9 Oct 1995 15:17:04 GMT
Message-ID: <45bedg$1vp@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

                             CALL FOR PAPERS

                      Eighth Annual ACM Symposium on
               PARALLEL ALGORITHMS AND ARCHITECTURES (SPAA)

                            June 24-26, 1996
                              Padua, Italy 
                 http://www.cs.jhu.edu/Conferences/SPAA/

The Eighth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
(SPAA'96) is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups for Algorithms and 
Computation (SIGACT) and Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) and organized in 
cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: Contributed papers are sought in the areas of parallel 
algorithms and architectures.  A major goal of SPAA is to foster communication 
and cooperation among the diverse communities involved in the theory and 
practice of parallel computing, including those involved in systems, algorithm 
analysis, languages, and applications.  This year the symposium will have two 
tracks of papers.

Regular papers: Regular papers should present original, fundamental advances 
in the areas covered by the conference.  The Symposium especially encourages 
papers that offer novel approaches to parallel computing, present new ideas in 
parallel algorithms or architecuters (including networks), present models for 
accounting for costs on parallel machines, or study the interaction of parallel
algorithms, languages and architectures.  These papers will be accompanied by a 
25-minute presentation, and must not be submitted to any other conference with 
published proceedings.

Research summaries: These abstracts should summarize an ongoing research 
project.  The purpose is to disseminate information on a project and update 
the community on recent results, some of which may have been reported in 
detail elsewhere.  Among the topics suitable for this track are summaries of 
projects to build a parallel machine, to develop a library of parallel 
algorithms, or implement a parallel language.  Summaries will be limited to 3
conference pages and will be accompanied by a short presentation.  Because of 
the short format, these papers should be concise and rely heavily on references 
to other sources of information.

SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to send draft papers to:

   Guy Blelloch, SPAA'96 Program Chair 
   Department of Computer Science 
   Carnegie Mellon University 
   Pittsburgh, PA  15213-3891

The deadline for submissions is JANUARY 16, 1996.  Inquiries should be 
addressed to Ms. Cleah Schlueter (phone: (412) 268-7884; fax: (412) 268-5575; 
e-mail: cleah@cs.cmu.edu).

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS: Authors should submit 15 double-sided copies of a draft
of their paper.  The cover page should include (1) whether it is a regular or 
summary paper, (2) title, (3) authors and affiliation, (4) e-mail address of 
the contact author, (5) a brief abstract describing the work.  A submission for
a regular paper should then include an introduction understandable to a 
nonspecialist including motivation and previous work, followed by a technical
exposition directed toward a specialist.  The draft paper---excluding cover 
page, figures, and references---should not exceed 10 printed pages in 11-point
type or larger.  More details may be supplied in a clearly marked appendix 
which may be read at the discretion of the Program Committee.  A submission for
a research summary should be directed to a nonspecialist, and should not exceed
5 printed pages.  Any paper deviating significantly from these guidelines---or
which is not received by the January 16, 1996 deadline---risks rejection
without consideration of its merits.

NOTIFICATION: Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by e-mail 
and a letter mailed on or before February 29, 1996.  A final copy of each 
accepted paper, prepared according to ACM guidelines, must be received by the 
Program Chair by March 26, 1996.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Roberto Bisiani, U. Milan
Robert Cypher, Johns Hopkins
Phil Gibbons, AT&T Bell Labs
Thomas Gross, CMU and ETH Zurich
Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, U. Paderborn
Christopher Jesshope, U. Surrey
Bill McColl, Oxford University
Vijaya Ramachandran, U. of Texas
John Reif, Duke University
Horst Simon, Silicon Graphics
Larry Snyder, U. Washington
Kathy Yelick, UC Berkeley

PROGRAM CHAIR: Guy E. Blelloch, CMU
GENERAL CHAIR: Charles E. Leiserson, MIT
CONFERENCE TREASURER: Bruce Maggs, CMU
CONFERENCE SECRETARY: Robert Cypher, Johns Hopkins
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE: Gianfranco Bilardi (Chair), Concettina Guerra, 
Massimo Maresca, Andrea Pietracaprina, Marinella Pines, Geppino Pucci,
Universita di Padova.


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