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From: pdcp@orca.st.usm.edu (Parallel and Dist. Comp. Practices)
Subject: Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices -- Call for OVERVIEW Papers
Organization: The University of Southern Mississippi
Date: 12 Apr 1998 18:04:34 GMT
Message-ID: <6gqvni$bi0$2@thorn.cc.usm.edu>


CALL FOR OVERVIEW PAPERS

The area of parallel and distributed computing has matured to the point
when it could benefit from papers providing a broader perspective on the
discipline and attempting to introduce order into the rapidly expanding
knowledge. To address this need the new journal -- Parallel and
Distributed Computing Practices (http://orca.st.usm.edu/pdcp) -- decided
to publish overview papers.

An overview paper is expected to cover a subarea of parallel and/or
distributed computing. It is supposed to contain a historical perspective
on the developments up to date as well as information about the state of
the art. It should also contain the description of what research is
currently considered the most important and which roads are considered to
be the most promising to lead to the answers. The paper should contain
extensive bibliography. It is crucial that the paper be written in such a
way as to be accessible to computer professionals who do not have detailed
knowledge of the subject. All papers are refereed against a specially
designed set of criteria matching their special nature (see the WWW site
for more details). Due to the nature of the endeavor we expect the
overview papers to be longer than the papers typically accepted for
journal publication.

I am happy to announce that the first issue contains an overview paper: 
"Asynchrony in Parallel Computing: From Dataflow to Multithreading" by J.
Silc, B. Robic and T. Ungerer. It is a rather extensive study (with 236
references) providing an excellent source of information about the
subject. 

I would like to invite all everyone interested in contributing an overview
paper to contact the Editor-in-Chief at: m.paprzycki@usm.edu to discuss
the details of the project.

--
Marcin Paprzycki
Department of Computer Science and Statistics
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-1506
m.paprzycki@usm.edu