From: Martin Simons <simons@cs.unc.edu>
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Subject: MPPM99: Call For Papers
Date: 20 Oct 1998 19:42:30 -0400
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               Fourth International Working Conference on
                 Massively Parallel Programming Models


            September 29 - October 1, 1999, Berlin, Germany


                     Organized by GMD FIRST and the
               Department of Computer Science, TU Berlin,
                    in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN


                            Call for Papers


Scope: The need for adequate programming models for parallel computing
is becoming more apparent than ever, with future architectures relying
increasingly on exploiting parallelism to obtain high performance, and
high-speed networks of workstations becoming easily accessible to the
average user.


Continuing a tradition established in 1993, the fourth Working
Conference on Massively Parallel Programming Models solicits papers in
any of the following or related areas:

        abstract parallel programming models

        convergence between parallel and distributed programming

        models for network-embedded supercomputing

        applications

We especially encourage submissions proposing innovative high-level
abstractions for common characteristics of existing and future parallel
architectures. These aspects have been largely neglected in current
proposals. We are seeking models that make explicit, say, the common
characteristics of the memory hierarchy. Also of interest is the
efficient mapping of such new abstractions to concrete architectures.


Previous MPPM conferences succeeded in attracting high-quality highly
relevant papers from prominent researchers in the field. The conference
itself has proved an ideal forum for the exchange of ideas.


Paper Submission Guidelines: Submissions must be unpublished, not have
been submitted for publication elsewhere, and should not exceed 15
pages. All submissions must be sent electronically in PostScript format
to the program chair. If this is not possible, four hard copies may be
sent. Submissions should include author's name, address, and phone
number, as well as electronic address and fax number, if available.
Detailed instructions on electronic submissions can be obtained from the
submission page or by sending a mail message with subject submission
information to the address mppm99-subm@swt.cs.tu-berlin.de. We recommend
that you follow closely Springer-Verlag's authors instructions. Papers
that are late, too long or that require major revision will be rejected.
The final proceedings will probably be published by Springer in the LNCS
series.


Additional information will be made available at the MPPM'99 website:

		  http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/~mppm99/



                            Important dates

Hardcopy deadline:    April 7, 1999
Electronic deadline:  April 14, 1999
Notification:         June 9, 1999
Final draft due:      July 7, 1999


                              Organization

Honorary Program Chair

Wolfgang Giloi


Program Chair

Stefan Jähnichen
GMD FIRST               e-mail: mppm99@swt.cs.tu-berlin.de
Rudower Chaussee 5      phone: +49.30.6392.1806
12489 Berlin, Germany   fax: +49.30.6392.1805


Program Committee

Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Manuel
Chakravarty (University of Tsukuba), John Darlington (Imperial College),
Jack Dennis (MIT), Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee), Guang Gao
(University of Delaware), Wolfgang Giloi (GMD FIRST), Anthony Hey
(University of Southampton), Christian Lengauer (University of Passau),
Rusty Lusk (Argonne National Laboratories), Bill McColl (Oxford
University), Rishiyur Nikhil (DEC), Jan Prins (University of
North-Carolina at Chapel Hill), Martin Simons (TU Berlin), Domenico
Talia (ISI-CNR), Marco Vanneschi (University of Pisa), Akinori Yonezawa
(University of Tokyo), Hans Zima (University of Vienna)

