Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: rolim@cui.unige.ch (ROLIM Jose D. P.)
Subject: IRREGULAR'96 goes to California: CFP 
Organization: University of Geneva - CUI
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 13:21:38 GMT
Message-ID: <1995Oct30.132138.11093@news.unige.ch>



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                                IRREGULAR'96
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		PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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         	    THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
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	  PARALLEL ALGORITHMS FOR IRREGULARLY STRUCTURED PROBLEMS 
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                   Santa Barbara,  August 19--21, 1996


Efficient parallel solutions have been found to many problems.  Some of
these solutions can be automatically obtained from sequential programs
using compilers.  However, there still exist a large class of problems,
known as irregularly structured problems, that lack efficient solutions.


The workshop on Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems
- IRREGULAR 96 - is the third in the series, after Geneva and Lyon,
that addresses issues related to deriving efficient solutions to
irregularly structured problems.  It will be held at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, on August 19--21, 1996.

Scope : IRREGULAR 96 aims at fostering the cooperation among
practitioners and theoreticians of the field.  Papers for oral
presentation are solicited in all research areas related to the
parallelism of irregular problems, as listed below.

Topics : (non exhaustive) applications, approximating and randomized methods,
automatic synthesis, branch and bound, combinatorial optimization, compiling,
computer vision, load balancing, parallel data structures, scheduling
and mapping, sparse matrix and symbolic computation.


Publication : Proceedings are planned to be published in the Springer-Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and shall be available at the
workshop. The Proccedings of IRREGULAR'95 have been published as volume 980
of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlarg.


Submission guidelines : To submit a contribution, send 6 copies
of an extended  abstract describing original research
in no more than 15 pages to


      	Yousef Saad, IRREGULAR'96 chair
        Computer Science Dept.
        University of Minnesota
        4-192 EE/CSci Building
        200 Union Street S.E.
        Minneapolis, MN 55455
	USA


Papers simultaneously submitted to other conferences with published
proceedings will not be considered.


Hard copy contributions  must be in Minneapolis and
e-mail (post-script file) contributions must be at
           irregular_submit@cs.ucsb.edu
no later than March 15, 1996.

A cover page should contain the author's full name, address, a 100-word
abstract and keywords. If the paper is submitted electronically, the
cover page in the form of an ascii-only e-mail must contain the
same information.

Venue : Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific coast, ninety miles north of
Los Angeles and  a one-day trip from the wine country and horse ranches of
neighboring Santa Ynez Valley. Santa Barbara's Spanish heritage is reflected
in its architectural style, fiesta celebrations and historical landmarks, and
its  mild climate promotes an environment rich in outdoor activities.


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   Workshop Chairs 

   Afonso Ferreira, ENS Lyon
   Jose Rolim, U. of Geneva

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   Program Committee 

  Y. Saad, chair, U. of Minnesota
  P. Banerjee, U. of Illinois
  V. Barbosa, U. of Rio de Janeiro
  R. Cypher, Johns Hopkins U.
  J. Fitch, U. of Bath
  T. Leighton, MIT
  J. van Leeuwen, U. of Utrecht
  E. Mayr, U. of Munich
  R. Meyer, U. of Wisconsin
  Y. Notay, U. of Brussels
  V. Prasanna, USC, Los Angeles
  Y. Robert, ENS Lyon
  S. Sahni, U. of Florida
  P. Widmayer, ETH Zurich
  T. Yang, UC Santa Barbara


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   Invited Speakers 

  T. Hagerup, Max-Planck I.
  R. Schreiber, NASA Ames
  H. Simon, Silicon Graphics

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   Local Organizers 

   T. Yang, UC Santa Barbara
   e-mail: tyang@cs.ucsb.edu


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		IMPORTANT DATES

      Submissions:   
  	March 15, 1996
     Notification:      
	May 19, 1996
     Camera Ready: 
	June 1, 1996

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This workshop is sponsored by the IFIP WG 10.3, the EATCS, the Laboratoire de
l'Informatique du Parallelisme de l'ENS Lyon,  the University of Geneva
and the University of California at Santa Barbara.


