Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi From: Peter Croll Subject: FINAL cfp: PDSE'99 in LA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <36883043.691958BF@cmis.csiro.au> Sender: news@news.nsw.CSIRO.AU Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: CSIRO Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:28:36 GMT Hi, it's not too late to submit a paper to the next PDSE event, which will be the fourth international symposium in this successful series (Paper deadline 13th January). On this occasion, in addition to the regular papers, we also welcome short papers on industrial case studies and on-going projects where ground-breaking research, demonstrable software tools or specific application experience can be presented, see below. Hope to see you there, Peter Croll ________________________________________________________________________ FINAL Call for Papers International Symposium on __________________________ Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDSE'99) May 17-18, 1999 - Los Angeles, USA At the 21st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-99) ======================================== = http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/PDSE99 = ======================================== ________________________________________________________________________ Symposium Chairs ---------------- Dr Peter Croll, University of Sheffield, UK (croll@computer.org) Dr Hesham El-Rewini, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA. Steering Committee ------------------ Prof Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Prof Bernd Kraemer, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany Dr Stefano Russo, University of Naples, Italy Dr Naoshi Uchihira, Toshiba Co., Japan International Program Committee ------------------------------- Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana USA Doo-Hwan Bae KAIST Korea Arndt Bode Techniche Universitaet Muenchen Germany Manfred Broy Techniche Universitaet Muenchen Germany Helmar Burkhart Universitaet Basel Switzerland Shing-chi Cheung HK University of Science & Technology Hong Kong Peter Croll University of Sheffield UK Karsten Decker CSCS Switzerland Hesham El-Rewini University of Nebraska at Omaha USA Wolfgang Emmerich University College London UK Jean-Luc Gaudiot University of Southern California USA Morven Gentleman IIT, National Research Council Canada Carlo Ghezzi Politecnico di Milano Italy Ian Gorton CSIRO Australia Wolfgang Halang FernUniversitaet Hagen Germany Innes Jelly Sheffield Hallam University UK Ayse Kiper Middle East Technical University Turkey Bernd Kraemer FernUniversitaet Hagen Germany Chung-Shyan Liu Chung Yuan Christian University Taiwan Imad Mahgoub Florida Atlantic University USA Patrick Nixon Trinity College, Dublin Ireland Stefano Russo Universita' di Napoli Federico II Italy Doug Schmidt Washington University USA Sol Shatz University of Illinois at Chicago USA Pradip Srimani Colorado State University USA Naoshi Uchihira Toshiba Corporation Japan Andreas Ulrich Siemens Germany Emilio Zapata Universidad de Malaga Spain OVERVIEW ======== Many software applications require the use of explicit concurrent programming techniques in order to meet their specification. Concurrency and distribution are 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. Some application areas include distributed information systems, client/server systems, multimedia systems, CSCW, high-performance computing, simulation, real-time and process control systems, embedded systems, manufacturing systems. Managing parallelism and distribution for applications in the above areas is a complex activity, demanding for adequate engineering methodologies and proper support tools. Much of the work to date on the development of parallel and distributed software has emphasized the later stages of the process: language issues, algorithms, machine dependent aspects eg mapping, routing, load balancing, have been well explored. But engineers of these software systems are also faced with other problems, including: - identification of problem-domain and solution-domain parallelism - dealing with concurrency in the specification and design phases - validation and testing of P&D applications - performance prediction and evaluation - dealing with systems heterogeneity Software engineers must deal with these issues in addition to tackling the more commonly identified problems which occur in all software projects. To date, many of the papers which address software engineering issues involved in the development of these systems have appeared in journals and conferences which are technology specific. This fragmentation has meant that researchers and practitioners have lacked a forum for the exploration of common issues. This symposium series on parallel and distributed software engineering attempts to fill this gap, aiming at providing a "one-stop" coverage of the area. SYMPOSIUM AIMS =============== The PDSE series of events provides a forum for exchange of information and publication of the latest technological and theoretical advances in software engineering for parallel and distributed systems. The Symposium will focus on the problems that are unique to the software engineer developing parallel and distributed systems. To this end, the following non-exhaustive list of topics will be considered: - development methodologies - impact of languages (eg Java) and architectures on development techniques - interoperability in open distributed applications and the impact of distributed objects computing technologies like CORBA, DCOM & Java RMI - architectural concepts and design techniques for parallel and distributed applications - application of formal methods - testing and verification - performance modelling and prediction - software reuse technology - CASE environments and support tools - object oriented techniques and design patterns - observance of behavioural properties across abstraction levels - practical experiences of software engineering problems encountered in industrial systems The PDSE workshop, now in its fourth successive year, will be a continuation of the inaugural PDSE'96 workshop held in conjunction with ICSE-18 in Berlin, Germany which was followed by PDSE'97 at ICSE-19 in Boston, USA and the more recent PDSE'98 at ICSE-20 in Kyoto, Japan. It will be of interest to both industrial and academic practitioners and researchers who have experience in developing software for parallel and distributed systems. It will also be relevant to practising software engineers who are interested in developing expertise in the field for research and development purposes. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: --------------------- Prospective authors should send electronic copies of a full paper (maximum of 5000 words) to Dr Peter Croll and Dr Hesham El-Rewini. Electronic submission via the WWW will be the standard submission procedure. The exact details of this will be made available nearer the time, see the symposium web page: (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/PDSE99/). Authors who have any difficulties using these facilities will be able to contact the symposium chairs for further advice. All papers will be fully refereed by at least 3 reviewers. We will be negotiating, as with previous symposiums, with the IEEE Computer Society to publish the proceedings internationally. We anticipate inviting authors of select papers to submit longer versions for publication in a special issue of an appropriate journal. SPECIAL SESSION: ---------------- Shorter papers (typically 2,500 words) will be accepted for a special session on industrial case studies and on-going projects. These will offer researchers and practicing engineers the opportunity to present any ground-breaking research, demonstrable software tools or specific application experience in a more pragmatic fashion than the traditional academic paper. Submission procedures will be the same for inclusion into the workshop proceedings. Please contact the PDSE chairs directly for any special requirements. IMPORTANT DATES ARE: -------------------- Paper submission: 13 January, 1999 Notification of acceptance: 19 February, 1999 Camera-ready copies: 19 March, 1999 CONTACT INFORMATION: -------------------- Further enquiries or expressions of interest can be made via the Symposium Web page or directly to: Dr Peter Croll, University of Sheffield, UK (croll@computer.org) Dr Hesham El-Rewini, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA. (rewini@cs.unomaha.edu) ======================================== = http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/PDSE99 = ======================================== ______________________________________________________________________