Annual Conference: Communicating Process Architectures
Communicating Process Architectures 2018,
the 40th. WoTUG conference on concurrent and parallel systems, takes place from
Sunday August 19th. to Wednesday August 22nd. 2018 and is hosted by
Professor Dr. Rainer Spallek,
Chair of
VLSI Design, Diagnostics and Architecture
at the Faculty of Computer Science,
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
The conference is organised by Dr. Spallek in collboration with Oliver Knodel and Uwe Mielke
and in partnership with WoTUG.
About WoTUG
WoTUG provides a forum for the discussion and promotion of concurrency ideas,
tools and products in computer science.
It organises specialist workshops and annual conferences that address
key concurrency issues at all levels of software and hardware granularity.
WoTUG aims to progress the leading state of the art in:
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theory (programming models, process algebra, semantics, ...);
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practice (multicore processors and run-times, clusters, clouds, libraries, languages, verification, model checking, ...);
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education (at school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, ...);
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applications (complex systems, modelling, supercomputing, embedded systems, robotics, games, e-commerce, ...);
and to stimulate discussion and ideas on the roles concurrency will play in the future:
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for the next generation of scalable computer infrastructure (hard and soft) and application,
where scaling means the ability to ramp up functionality (stay in control as complexity increases)
as well as physical metrics (such as absolute performance and response times);
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for system integrity (dependability, security, safety, liveness, ...);
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for making things simple.
Of course, neither of the above sets of bullets are exclusive.
WoTUG publications
A database of papers and presentations from WoTUG conferences is here.
The Abstract below has been randomly selected from this database.
A Cruise Control in occam based on an Implementation of KRoC on the Philips 8051 Microcontroller
By Frank T. M. van Vugt, André W. P. Bakkers
This paper summarises the results of the realisation of a Cruise Control system in occam using an implementation of the Kent Retargettable occam Compiler (KRoC) on the Philips 8051 microcontroller. The increase in complexity of systems designed comes with difficulties that can probably be overcome using concurrent programming languages. occam is such a language, originally developed for use with transputers. The KRoC initiative allows one to translate the transputer assembly produced from a program written in occam into the assembly of another processor. In this case, it was implemented for the Philips 8051 microcontroller, which is an 8-bits processor. The design and realisation in occam of the Cruise Control system of Yourdon demonstrate its proper functioning. The generated code is tested using a real-time in-circuit 8051 emulator and special hardware to represent car and interface. The design process using occam is compared to a regular solution using a language like C. Since this port is the first of its kind inasmuch as it is not targeting 'large' processors like the SPARC, important conclusions can be drawn regarding the power of the CSP-concept. The port is not complete yet, future work on it is recommended.
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