From: MaryDell Tholburn Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi Subject: ISCOPE'99 Preliminary Call for Papers Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:51:43 -0700 Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Message-Id: <36D6D11F.167E@lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.parallel.mpi:4677 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.acl.lanl.gov/iscope99/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISCOPE'99 Preliminary Call for Papers The Third International Symposium on Computing in Object-oriented Parallel Environments December 7-10, 1999, Crowne Plaza Hotel in Union Square San Francisco, California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The third International Symposium on Computing in Object-oriented Parallel Environments (ISCOPE'99) Conference will be held in San Francisco, California, USA, during December 7-10, 1999. ISCOPE is a leading forum where researchers and practitioners of high-performance object-oriented computing can exchange technical ideas and investigate success stories in application deployment. The proceedings of the past two ISCOPEs in '97 and '98 have been published by Springer-Verlag as volumes in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (vols. 1343 and 1505). We anticipate that the ISCOPE'99 Proceedings will again be published as an LNCS volume, and are working with Springer to confirm this. ISCOPE seeks to encompass a broad range of topics which address object-orientation (OO) in parallel and/or high-performance applications and systems. Suggested topics, complementing the themes of OO and high-performance include, but are not limited to: * Scientific applications * Parallel/Distributed problem solving environments * Parallel/Distributed languages and systems * Compiler technologies and performance issues * High-performance run-time systems * Programming/Debugging/Visualization tools * Class libraries, frameworks, and design patterns * Components, reuse, and portability * Software Engineering issues * Theoretical foundations, formal methods * Multi-agent systems * Reflection and Metaprogramming * High-performance databases and data mining * Financial applications * Real-time applications * Global computing, Internet computing and the Grid * Heterogeneous computing environments * Standards for object interoperability As such, ISCOPE'99 invites both high quality research and experience papers on high-performance systems and applications enabled by the object-oriented technology. Research papers should describe work that advances the current technology or understanding of concepts and problems. Experience papers should not merely describe how a particular system had been built or used, but rather should be of broad interest, clearly on the conference focus, provide concrete quantitative/qualitative observations; they will be evaluated based on the new generalizable insights the paper provides. The program committee will evaluate each contributed research and experience paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, originality, and correctness. For all types of papers, references and comparisons to existing work will be significant criteria in evaluating the contribution. The program committee may decide to categorize accepted papers into long and short papers, with differing number of pages in the conference proceedings as well as longer/shorter presentation time durations. SUBMISSION: --------------------- Papers should be no longer than 5,000 words (not counting figures, tables, and references) and 10 pages in Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/authors/index.html). Authors must use Springer's LNCS format for submissions. All submissions must be sent electronically in PDF format which is highly recommended, or in Postscript. Submission deadline is May 24, 1999. Should the paper be accepted, the final camera-ready must be submitted in LaTeX, using the LNCS style. For details, see the ISCOPE'99 Author Information page at http://www.acl.lanl.gov/iscope99/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: 1. Electronic Full paper submission due: May 24, 1999 2. Author Notification: Aug. 1, 1999 3. Final paper due: Sep. 1, 1999 Conference: December 7-10, 1999, Crowne Plaza Hotel in Union Square San Francisco, CA, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JAVAGRANDE ACTIVITIES: This year, ISCOPE will be held jointly with a JavaGrande workshop activity, which is being led by Prof. Geoffrey Fox of Syracuse University. This is primarily due to the increasing recognition of Java as a viable and likely mainstream high-performance object-oriented computing platform, and that ISCOPE has been receiving a number of submissions strongly related to the area. The current tentative schedule is as follows. There will be a day of JavaGrande activity on Dec.7, mainly focusing on Java and high-performance application thereof. There will be a collaborative activity on the 8th, and ISCOPE technical sessions will start on the afternoon of the 8th. Please note that the current call for papers is for ISCOPE'99 only. JavaGrande and ISCOPE organizers will work jointly to determine the detailed format of the JavaGrande portion of the meeting as soon as possible. Should the format be decided, and/or any paper submissions are to be solicited for JavaGrande, they will be announced immediately on both the ISCOPE'99 and the JavaGrande web pages. ORGANIZERS AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ISCOPE Steering Committee: Denis Caromel, Univ. of Nice-INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Yutaka Ishikawa, Real World Computing Partnership, Japan John Reynders, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Jorg Nolte, GMD-FIRST, Germany ISCOPE'99 General Conference Chair: John Reynders, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA ISCOPE'99 Organizing Committee: Program Committee Chair: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Proceedings Chair: Rod Oldehoeft, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA/ Colorado State University, USA Local Arrangements and Publicity Chair: MaryDell Tholburn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA JavaGrande Activity Geoffrey Fox, Syracuse University, USA Posters, Workshops and BOFs Chair: Yutaka Ishikawa, Real World Computing Partnership, Japan ISCOPE'99 Program Committee: Peter Beckman (Los Alamos NL) Denis Caromel (U. Nice Sophia Antipolis/INRIA) Sid Chatterjee (U. North Carolina) Andrew A. Chien (U.C. San Diego) Jack Dongarra (U. Tennessee/ORNL) Geoffrey Fox (Syracuse U.) Dennis Gannon (Indiana U.) Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL) Scott Haney (Los Alamos N.L.) Yutaka Ishikawa (Real World Computing Partnership) Jean-Marc Jezequel (IRISA/CNRS) L.V. Kale (UIUC) Carl Kesselman (USC-ISI) Doug Lea (Oswego U.) Charles Norton (NASA JPL) Dan Quinlan (Lawrence Livermore NL) Roldan Pozo (NIST) Martin Rinard (MIT) Mitsuhisa Sato (Real World Computing Partnership) David Snelling (Fujitsu Europe UK) Guy L. Steele, Jr. (Sun Microsystems) Kenjiro Taura (U. Tokyo) Andrew Wendelborn (U. Adelaide) Katherine Yelick (U.C. Berkeley) ------------------------------------------------------------------------