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From: jjsc@inf.rl.ac.uk
Subject: CFP: World Transputer Congress 1994 (WTC '94)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 09:46:11 GMT
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From: jjsc@inf.rl.ac.uk (John Cullen)
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Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Informatics Department, UK
Subject: CFP: World Transputer Congress 1994 (WTC '94)
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WTC '94

CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

Villa Erba, Cernobbio, Lake Como, Italy

5 - 7 September, 1994

The Transputer Consortium (TTC) is pleased to announce that the WORLD
TRANSPUTER CONGRESS 1994 (WTC '94) will be held on 5 - 7 September
1994 at the Villa Erba, Cernobbio, Lake Como, Italy . WTC '94 is the
leading international transputer conference and exhibition and is the
second in a series sponsored by and run under the overall management of
TTC. SGS-Thomson is also sponsoring WTC '94.

It is planned that each year WTC will be held in conjunction with a local
partner. For the first, highly successful, WTC '93, the local partner was
the German Transputer-Anwender-Treffen (TAT) conference. WTC '93, held at
the Eurogress Conference Centre in Aachen, Germany,  attracted 475
delegates from 32 countries worldwide. WTC '94 will be held in conjunction
with the Italian Transputer User Group (ItTUG), which is due to be formed
in early 1994. WTC '94 will incorporate the Inaugural Meeting of ItTUG.

WTC '94 will be the first major conference where significant applications of
the new T9000 transputer and its associated technologies (e.g. packet routers)
will be extensively reported.

OBJECTIVES

*       present `state-of-the-art' research on all aspects of parallel
        computing based upon communicating process architectures;

*       to demonstrate `state-of-the-art' products and applications from
        as wide a range of fields as possible;

*       to progress the establishment of international software and
        hardware standards for parallel computing systems;

*       to provide a forum for the free exchange of ideas, criticism and
        information from a world audience gathered from Industry,
        Commerce and Academia;

*       to promote an awareness of how transputer technologies may be
        applied and their advantages over other sequential and parallel
        processors;

*       to establish and encourage an understanding of the new software
        and hardware technologies enabled by the transputer, especially the
        new T9000 processor and C104 packet router from INMOS, the
        parallel DSP engines from Texas Instruments, and new products
        from Intel and other manufacturers.

The conference themes will include: education and training issues, formal
methods and security, performance and scalability, porting existing systems,
parallelisation paradigms, tools, programming languages, support
environments, standards and applications.

Applications include: embedded real-time control systems, workstations,
super-computing, consumer products, artificial intelligence, databases,
modelling, design, data gathering and the testing of scientific or mathematical
theories.

BACKGROUND

The World Transputer Congress (WTC) series was formed in 1992 from the
merger of the TRANSPUTING series of conferences, organised by the
worldwide occam and Transputer User Groups, and the TRANSPUTER
APPLICATIONS series of conferences, organised by the UK SERC/DTI
Transputer Initiative.

WTC '93 attracted a large and enthusiastic audience from the majority of
countries where transputer technology is accepted and/or parallel processing
is seen as the key to meeting future computing demands. There is clearly a
continuing, and growing, interest and commitment to this technology which
will rely on the WTC series to maintain the vital information flow. It is
reasonable to assume that it has already established itself as the leading
conference in this important area. The successes of its predecessors has been a
major factor in this. The continuing and vital support of TTC and the large
number of User Groups from around the world will ensure a continuing
success story for WTC.

FORMAT

The format adopted for WTC '93 will be continued at WTC '94. There will be a
mix of Plenary Sessions, with Keynote and Invited Speakers from around the
world, and Parallel Sessions, one of which will be organised by ItTUG. The
exact number of Parallel Streams will be dependent on the quality of papers
submitted against this Call for Papers.

LOCATION

WTC '94 will be held at the Villa Erba Conference and Exhibition Centre,
Cernobbio, Lake Como, Italy.  Cernobbio is 4KM from Como. The modern
complex offers unique conference and exhibition facilities providing a main
conference hall, meeting rooms and reception halls together with an
exhibition area which can be divided into a maximum of 280 stands. It is set
in the beautiful landscaped grounds of the Villa Erba on the shores of the
lake. The Mannerist style Villa, with its steps down to the lake, was built in
1892 and is of both historic and artistic importance.

ACCOMMODATION

A range of hotel accommodation (2*, 3* and 4*) has been reserved for WTC '94
in Cernobbio and Como. The majority of these hotels are within easy walking
distance of the Villa Erba. However there is a limit to the total number of
rooms available in the town, so early booking is recommended. Details will
be sent, as soon as they are available, to all people who register their
interest
in WTC '94 by returning the reply slip at the end of this announcement.

GETTING THERE

Como has excellent air, rail and road access, being within easy reach of two
international airports, the main motorways and the trans-European rail
networks. The two International Airports are Milan (Linate) and Lugano
(Agno). Although many more international flights arrive at Milan, special
arrangements are  being negotiated with Crossair for flights to and from
Lugano. Crossair flights connect with international flights at many major
European airports. Travelling times by road to Como are 20 minutes from
Milan and 15 minutes from Lugano. Buses will be provided for delegates,
serving both airports. There is a frequent rail service from Milan to Como
and regular buses from Como to Cernobbio. Fuller details will be sent, as
soon as they are available, to people who register their interest in WTC
'94.

EXHIBITION

An associated exhibition attracting the world's leading suppliers of
transputer-based and other relevant hardware, software and application
products will be held at the Villa Erba Exhibition Centre. The WTC '93
Exhibition was viewed as a great success by both exhibitors and participants
alike and attracted a large number of visitors. Companies and other
organisations wishing to exhibit at the WORLD TRANSPUTER CONGRESS
1994 should contact one of the Committee members listed at the end of this
announcement. Opportunities will also exist for posters and demonstrations
of academic achievements.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference programme will contain invited papers from established
international authorities together with submitted papers. The International
Programme Committee, presided over by Ing. A De Gloria (University of
Genoa), Dr S C Hilton (TTC), Dr M R Jane (TTC), Dr D Marini (University of
Milan) and Professor P H Welch (WoTUG), is now soliciting papers on all
areas described above. All papers will be fully refereed in their final form.
Only papers of high excellence will be accepted. The proceedings of this
conference will be published internationally by IOS Press and will be issued
to delegates as they register at the  meeting.

BEST PAPER AWARD

The award for the best paper (worth approximately #500) will be based on
both the submitted full paper for refereeing and the actual presentation at the
Conference. Members of the Programme Committee will be the judges and
their decision will be final. The winner will be announced and the
presentation made in the final Closing Session on Wednesday, 7 September.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBERS

The Programme Committee consists of invited experts from Industry and
Academia, together with existing members from the joint organising user-
groups based in Australia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan,
Latin America, New Zealand, North America, Scandinavia and the United
Kingdom.

The refereeing will be spread around the world to ensure that all points of
view and expertise are properly represented and to obtain the highest
standards of excellence.

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Four copies of submitted papers (not exceeding 16 pages, single-spaced, A4 or
US 'letter') must reach the Committee member on the contact list below who
is closest to you by 1 March 1994. Authors will be notified of acceptance
by 24 May 1994. Camera-ready copy must be delivered by 23 June 1994, to
ensure inclusion in the proceedings.

A submitted paper should be a draft version of the final camera-ready copy. It
should contain most of the information, qualitative and quantitative, that will
appear in the final paper - i.e. it should not be just an extended abstract.

CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

Before the World Transputer Congress 1994, we shall be holding tutorials on
the fundamental principles underlying transputer technologies, the design
paradigms for exploiting them, and workshops that will focus directly on a
range of specialist themes (e.g. real-time issues, formal methods, AI, image
processing ..). The tutorials will be held on 3 - 4 September 1994 in the
Villa Erba itself.

We welcome suggestions from the community of particular themes that
should be chosen for these tutorials and workshops. In particular, we
welcome proposals from any group that wishes to run such a tutorial or
workshop. A submission should outline the aims and objectives of the
tutorial, give details of the proposed programme, anticipated numbers of
participants attending (minimum and maximum) and equipment (if any)
needed for support. Please submit your suggestions or proposals to one of the
Committee members listed below by 1 March 1994.

DELIVERY AND CONTACT POINTS

Dr Mike Jane, The Transputer Consortium, Informatics Department,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
Phone: +44 235 445408; Fax: +44 235 445893; email: mrj@inf.rl.ac.uk

Dr Daniele Marini, Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Via
Comelico,39, Milan 20135, ITALY.
Phone: +39 2 5500 6358; Fax: +39 2 5500 6334
email:marini@imiucca.csi.unimi.it

Mr David Fielding, Chair, NATUG, Cornell Information Technologies, 502
Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA
Phone: +1 607 255 9098; Fax: +1 607 255 9346
email: fielding@library.cornell.edu

Dr Kuninobu Tanno,
Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Yamagata University,
Yonezawa, Yamagata 992, JAPAN
Phone: +81 238 22 5181; Fax: +81 238 26 2082
email: tanno@eie.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Mr John Hulskamp, Department of Computer Systems Engineering, RMIT, G.P.O.
Box 2476V, Melbourne, 3001 AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 3 660 5310 ; Fax: +61 3 660 5340; email: jph@rmit.edu.au

Dr Rafael Lins, Chair, OUG-LA, Department de Informatica, UFPE - CCEN,
Cidade Universitaria, Recife - 50739 PE BRAZIL
Phone: +55 81 2718430; Fax: +55 81 2710359; email: rdl@di.ufpe.br

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Dr Susan C Hilton
Building R1
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
CHILTON,
DIDCOT,
OXON. OX11 0QX
UK

Phone: +44 235 446154
Fax: +44 235 445893
email sch@inf.rl.ac.uk


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Please complete and return this form to Dr. Susan C Hilton by post or fax
(+44 235 445893). If you prefer you can e-mail your reply to sch@inf.rl.ac.uk.
No futher information will be sent unless you do reply.


Name:		......................................................
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I am interested in receiving (tick as appropriate):

		All information on WTC'94			______
		Submitting a paper to WTC'94			______
		Attending WTC'94				______
		Exhibiting at WTC'94				______
		Submitting a Turtorial/Workshop Proposal	______


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