Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: ac2pan@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (Paddy Nixon)
Subject: CFP: Parallel and Distributed Systems: Hawaii
Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University
Date: 13 Jan 1994 11:22:56 GMT
Message-ID: <2h3aug$80o@silver.shef.ac.uk>


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 + Call For Papers and Referees in Parallel and Distributed Computing +
 +                 Maui, Hawaii - January 3-6, 1995                   +
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Dear Colleague

We should like to draw your attention to a call for papers for the 
Software Track for HICSS-28 (please see included message below), and in 
particular to the mini-track on "Software Engineering for Parallel Systems" 
which we are organising.

The aim of the mini-track is to provide a forum for the exploration of 
new concepts and techniques relating to parallel software engineering, 
as well as presentation of important original work. In order to support 
this, the full day mini-track will include a review of the current state 
of the area, the presentation of technical papers; and discussion and
interaction between participants. It will be conducted in a workshop-like 
manner and we regard the inclusion of structured discussion sessions as a 
key aspect of the mini-track.

There is an increasing interest in the process of developing high quality,
reliable and efficient software for parallel systems. 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 multiprocessor 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 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 parallel activities in specification and design;
- architectural influences on design and implementation, including use 
    of virtual machines;
- correctness and testing of parallel systems;
- incorporation of performance evaluation into the software development cycle.
Importantly, software engineers must deal with these issues in addition to 
tackling the more commonly identified problems which occur in all software 
projects. 

We would, therefore, encourage you to participate - we are particularly keen 
to ensure that contributions reflect the range of work in this area which is
being currently being undertaken in many different countries. If however you 
do not wish to submit a paper, you may wish to assist us with the refereeing
process and we would be grateful to hear from you if this is the case.

We draw your attention to the submission deadlines below. We encourage you 
to reply by Email, and it would be of assistance if you could indicate your 
interest at this stage. Let us know if you hope to submit an abstract, act 
as a referee or would be interested in attending the conference. Would you 
like us to send you a "Call for Papers and Referees" poster?

With best wishes

Peter Croll, Innes Jelly, Ian Gorton, Patrick Nixon


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                      Call For Papers and Referees
                                   in
   Parallel and Distributed Computing: Theory, Systems, and Applications
                                for the
                       Software Technology Track
                                of the
    28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-28
                   Maui, Hawaii - January 3-6, 1995
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This year, the Software Technology Track of HICSS-28 will be focusing on a 
broad selection of topics in the area of Parallel and Distributed Computing: 
Theory, Systems, and Applications. This particular solicitation for the 
Software Track will provide a forum to discuss new advances in theory, 
design, implementation, use, application, and performance evaluation of 
parallel and  distributed systems. Papers are invited that may be 
theoretical, conceptual, tutorial, or descriptive in nature. Those papers 
selected for presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings. HICSS-28 
is sponsored by the University of Hawaii in cooperation with the ACM and the 
IEEE Computer Society.  The Conference Proceedings are published by the 
IEEE Computer Society.  A collection of the accepted papers will be 
considered for inclusion in a separately bound volume to be determined 
(publishers and exact dates of publication) at a later time.

1994 Deadlines
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o  A 300-word abstract by March 15
o  Feedback to author on abstract by April 1
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


Software Technology Track Co-Chairs
===================================
Hesham El-Rewini                     Bruce Shriver
Department of Computer Science       HICSS-28 Co-Chairman
University of Nebraska at Omaha      17 Bethea Drive
Omaha, NE 68182                      Ossining, NY 10562-1620
Phone:  (402) 554-2852               Phone:  (914) 762-3251
Fax:    (402) 554-2975               FAX:    (914) 941-9181
Email: rewini@unocss.unomaha.edu     Email:  b.shriver@computer.org


Software Technology Track Advisory Committee
********************************************
- - Dharma Agrawal, North Carolina State University, USA
- - Selim Akl, Queen's University, CANADA
- - Fran Berman, University of California at San Diego, USA
- - Karsten M. Decker, Swiss Scientific Computing Center, SWITZERLAND
- - Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Purdue University, USA
- - Hesham El-Rewini, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
- - Jeff Kramer, Imperial College, UK
- - Tore Larsen, Tromso University, NORWAY
- - Harold W. Lawson, Lawson Publishing and Consulting Inc., SWEDEN
- - Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
- - M. Tamer Ozsu, University of Alberta, CANADA
- - David Padua, University of Illinois, USA
- - Cherri Pancake, Oregon State University, USA
- - Greg Riccardi, Florida State University, USA
- - Bruce Shriver, University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
- - Alok Sinha, Microsoft, USA
- - Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA

Specific Topics and Minitrack Coordinators
******************************************
Submit your 300-word abstract and then eight copies of the paper to one of 
the following Minitrack Coordinators according to their areas of 
responsibility.  Electronic submissions are encouraged.  Persons interested 
in refereeing in these areas should contact the Minitrack Coordinators 
directly.

1) PARALLEL ALGORITHMS
   Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms in the following 
   areas: Graph Theory, Image Processing, Computational geometry,
   and Combinatorics, the application of these areas in parallel 
   and Distributed computing, and cost models.

	COORDINATOR
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	Michael A. Langston
	Department of Computer Science
	University of Tennessee
	Knoxville, TN 37996-1301
	Phone: (615) 974-3534
	Fax:   (615) 974-4404
	Email: langston@cs.utk.edu


2) PARTITIONING AND SCHEDULING FOR PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
   Program and data partitioning, granularity, locality, coarse/fine-grain
   dependence graphs, static and dynamic scheduling, load balancing and 
   computation migration, scheduling for integrated task/data parallelism,
   communication and I/O scheduling, compilation techniques.

        COORDINATORS
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	Apostolos Gerasoulis
	Department  of Computer Science
	Rutgers University
	New Brunswick, NJ 08903
	Phone: (908) 932-2725
	Fax:   (908) 932-0537
	Email: gerasoulis@cs.rutgers.edu

	Tao Yang
	Department  of Computer Science
	University of California
	Santa Barbara, CA 93106
	Phone: (805) 893-4384
	Fax:   (805) 893-8553
	Email: tyang@cs.ucsb.edu


3) PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT TOOLS AND ENVIRONMENT FOR PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED
   SYSTEMS
   Program development on parallel systems and networks of workstations,
   performance monitoring and optimization tools, application domain-
   specific tools, interoperability issues for software tool kits, and
   advances in design of hardware-independent parallel software tools.

        COORDINATORS
        ------------
        Ted Lewis
        Department of Computer Science
        Naval Postgraduate School
	Monterey, CA 93943-5100
        Phone: (408)-656-2449
        Fax:   (408)-656-2814 
        Email: lewis@cs.nps.navy.mil

        Amr Zaky
        Department of Computer Science
        Naval Postgraduate School
        Monterey, CA 93943-5100
        Phone: (408) 656-2693
        Fax:   (408)-656-2814
        Email: zaky@cs.nps.navy.mil


4) SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR PARALLEL SYSTEMS
   Development methodologies, theoretical issues of specification, 
   verification and validation of parallel software, application of 
   formal methods for parallel systems, prototyping, testing, impact 
   of parallel languages and architectures on development techniques,
   practical experiences of software engineering problems encountered
   in industrial systems, and software reuse technology.

        COORDINATORS
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	Peter Croll (primary contact)
	Dept. of Computer Science
	University of Sheffield
	Regent Court
	211 Portobello Street
	Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK
	Phone: +44 742 825567
	Fax:   +44 742 780972
	Email: p.croll@dcs.shef.ac.uk

	Ian Gorton
	School of Computer Science and Engineering
	University of New South Wales
	PO Box 1, Kensington
	Sydney, NSW 2033, AUSTRALIA
	Phone: +61 2 697 4072
	Fax:   +61 2 313 7987
	Email: iango@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au

	Innes Jelly
	School of Computing and Management Science
	Sheffield Hallam University
	Sheffield S11 8HD, UK
	Phone: +44 742 533763
	Fax:   +44 742 533161
	Email: i.e.jelly@shu.ac.uk

	Patrick Nixon
	Dept. of Computing
	Manchester Metropolitan University,
	Manchester, M1 5GD, UK
	Phone: +44 61 247 1528
	Fax:   +44 61 247 1483
	Email: paddy@sun.com.mmu.ac.uk


5) PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND PREDICTION OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED
   SYSTEMS
   Evaluating and standardizing benchmarks, benchmarking experiences,
   computer network and distributed systems benchmark results, 
   performance analysis environments, frameworks and methodologies, 
   synergy of techniques and tools, tool integration, and inter-tool 
   communication.

	COORDINATOR
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	Diane T. Rover
	Department of Electrical Engineering
	Michigan State University
	East Lansing, MI 48824
	Phone: (517) 353-7735
	FAX:   (517) 353-1980
	Email: rover@ee.msu.edu


6) FAULT TOLERANCE IN DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL SYSTEMS	
   Fault models, network topologies and algebraic properties, software
   vs. hardware redundancy, embedding problems in faulty environments,
   reconfiguration techniques for fault tolerant networks, gracefully 
   degrading systems, and task migration in faulty networks.

	COORDINATORS
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	Shahram Latifi
	ECE Department
	UNLV
	Las Vigas, NV 89154-4026
        Phone: (702) 895-4016
	Fax:   (702) 895-4075
	Email: latifi@jb.EE.UNLV.EDU

	Pradip Srimani
	Department of Computer Science
	Colorado State University
	Ft. Collins, CO 80523
        Phone: (303) 491-7097
        Fax:   (303) 491-6639
        Email: srimani@cs.colostate.edu


7) COMMUNICATION IN PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
   Interconnection networks for distributed memory parallel machines, 
   information dissemination problems (broadcasting, image transformations,
   routing), embeddings and mappings of interconnection networks, group
   communication (including algorithms, reasoning and applications).

       COORDINATORS
        ------------
        Alan Fekete
        Department of Computer Science F09,
        University of Sydney,
        NSW 2006, AUSTRALIA
        Phone: +612 6924287
        Fax:   +612 6923838
        Email: fekete@cs.su.oz.au

        Arthur L. Liestman  and  Joseph G. Peters
        School of Computing Science
        Simon Fraser University
	Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6, CANADA
	Phone: (604) 291-4197 and (604) 291-3780
	Fax:   (604) 291-3045	
	Email: art@cs.sfu.ca  and  peters@cs.sfu.ca


8) DISTRIBUTION AND CONCURRENCY IN PERSISTENT SYSTEMS 
   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                        
	Department of Computer Science
        University of Adelaide
	N.S.W. 2006, AUSTRALIA                            
	Phone: +61 2 692 4840
        Fax:   +61 8 303 4366
	Email: johnr@cs.su.oz.au 
            
        Alan Dearle
        Department of Computer Science
        University of Sydney
        S.A. 5005, AUSTRALIA
        Phone: +61 8 303 5405
        Fax:   +61 2 692 3838
        Email: al@cs.adelaide.edu.au


9) OBJECT ORIENTED MULTI-DATABASES
   Heterogeneous database systems, distributed object architectures,
   transaction management, object models, advanced transactions models,
   query models and languages, novel programming languages, interoperability 
   issues, integration challenges, schematic and data heterogeneity, 
   and schema transformations.

	COORDINATOR
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	Omran Bukhres
	Computer Science Department
	Purdue University
	West Lafayette, IN. 47907
	Phone: (317) 494-9609
	Fax:   (317) 494-0739
	Email: bukhres@cs.purdue.edu


Instructions for Submitting Papers
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Manuscripts should be 22-25 typewritten, double-spaced pages in length. 
Please do not send submissions that are significantly shorter or longer than 
this. 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. 
Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper, 
full name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s), complete postal and electronic 
mail address(es), telephone and FAX number(s), and a 300-word abstract of
the paper.


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