From: Peter Parsons Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Call for Papers: PAA Special Issue on High Level Models and Languages Date: 7 Jun 1999 13:58:53 GMT Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <7jgj6t$dqh$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ux6.sp.cs.cmu.edu Xref: ukc comp.parallel:15660 Call for Papers PARALLEL ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS Special Issue on High Level Models and Languages for Parallel Processing Papers are solicited for a special issue of the Journal of Parallel Algorithms and Applications to be published in September 2000. Introduction With the availability of standard libraries for parallel programming such as PVM and MPI, portability of code across different architectures is less of a problem than before. However, maintaining performance gains across different platforms is still an issue far from resolved. Furthermore, most current parallel programming languages and libraries are still underpinned by simple interaction models (e.g. shared variables, send/receive) which make program development a complex and onerous task. By offering the ability to model more complex patterns of computation and interaction, high level models of parallel processing offer the opportunity to develop parallel programs which have a lifetime greater than that of the architecture for which they were first developed. Most of these models come with the promise of maintainable efficiency, sophisticated program development environments and tools, opportunities for program analysis and transformation, and automatic code generation. This definition of a high level model is very general, encompassing concepts as varied as formal architectural models, visual programming, algorithmic skeletons and object-oriented patterns. In this issue we are interested in leading edge, tutorial and survey papers on these high level models and their use in parallel program development, considering all aspects from the development of high level models through their use in designing and using programming tools and environments to techniques for and experiences of implementing programs on real architectures. Topics of Interest Topics of a particular interest for this special issue include : (i) Theoretical aspects including formal architectural and communication models. (ii) Methodologies, design notations and languages for high level parallel programming. (iii) Programming environments, implementation strategies, automatic code generation and CASE tools. (iv) Analysis, transformation, performance prediction and monitoring of high level parallel programs. (v) Experiences of using high level models in real world applications. Submissions Authors should send original, unpublished work in English to one of the Guest Editors. The submission deadline is 30th September 1999. Papers should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages and authors should follow the Notes for Contributors in the back of the journal. An electronic copy in Postscript format, viewable and printable with ghostview should be sent via electronic mail, otherwise five paper copies should be sent to arrive by the same deadline. Guest Editors Dr. Peter Parsons High Performance Computing Centre University of Reading PO Box 225 Reading RG6 6AY United Kingdom P.J.Parsons@reading.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)118 931 8606 Fax: +44 (0)118 975 1994 Dr. Fethi Rabhi Department of Computer Science University of Hull Hull HU6 7RX United Kingdom F.A.Rabhi@dcs.hull.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1482 465744 Fax: +44 (0)1482 466666 Dr. Paddy Nixon Department of Computer Science Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland Paddy.Nixon@tcd.ie Tel: +353 01 608 2666 Fax: +353 01 677 2204 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Dr. Peter Parsons - P.J.Parsons@reading.ac.uk - Research Fellow | | Reading HPCC - http://www.hpcc.rdg.ac.uk/people/pjp/pjp.html | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't. -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel