Call for Papers

   Call For Papers
in
Parallel and Distributed Systems: From Theory to Practice
for the
Software Technology Track
of the
27th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-27
Maui, Hawaii - January 4-7, 1994
===============================


This year, the Software Technology Track of HICSS-27 will be exclusively
focussing on a broad selection of topics in the area of Parallel and
Distributed Systems: From Theory To Practice. This particular solicitation
for the Software Track will provide a forum to discuss new advances in
theory, design, implementation, use, application, and performance
evaluation of parallel and distributed systems. Papers are invited that
may be theoretical, conceptual tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those
papers selected for presentation will appear in the Conference
Proceedings. HICSS-27 is sponsored by the University of Hawaii in
cooperation with the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. The Conference
Proceedings are published by the IEEE Computer Society. A collection of
the accepted papers will be considered for inclusion in a separately bound
volume to be determined (publishers and exact dates of publication) at a
later time.




1993 Deadlines
==============
o A 300-word abstract by March 15
o Feedback to author on abstract by April 1
o Eight copies of the manuscript by June 4
o Notification of accepted papers by August 31
o Camera-ready copies of accepted manuscripts are due by October 1


Software Technology Track Co-Chairs
===================================
  Hesham El-Rewini
  Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
  University of Nebraska at Omaha
  Omaha, NE 68182
  rewini@unocss.unomaha.edu
  (402) 554-2852


  Ted Lewis
  Department of Computer Science
  Oregon State University
  Corvallis, OR 97331
  lewis@cs.orst.edu
  (503) 737-5577


  Bruce Shriver
  HICSS-27 Co-Chairman
  17 Bethea Drive
  Ossining, NY 10562-1620
  b.shriver@compmail.com
  (914) 762-3251




Software Technology Track Advisory Committee
============================================
o Gul Agha, University of Illinois
o Dharma Agrawal, North Carolina State University
o Dennis Allison, HaL Computer Systems & Stanford University
o Thomas Casavant, University of Iowa
o Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
o Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington
o Hesham El-Rewini, University of Nebraska at Omaha
o Mike Evangelist, Florida International University
o John Gustafson, Ames Lab, Iowa State University
o Ted Lewis, Oregon State University
o David Padua, University of Illinois
o Behcet Sarikaya, Bilkent University, Turkey
o Bruce Shriver, Consultant (on leave from the University of Southwestern
    Lousiana)
o Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada




Specific Topics and Minitrack Coordinators
==========================================
Submit your 300-word abstract and then eight copies of the paper to one of
the following Minitrack Coordinators according to their areas of
responsibility. Electronic submissions are encouraged. Persons interested
in refereeing in these areas should contact the Minitrack Coordinators
directly.




1) PROGRAM PARTITIONING AND SCHEDULING IN PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS


      Automatic Partitioning
      Static/Dynamic Scheduling
      Task Allocation
      Load balancing
      Scheduling
      Overhead Issues
      Parallel scheduling algorithms
      Execution and Communication Cost Estimation


      COORDITATOR
      -----------
      Min-You Wu, wu@cs.buffalo.edu
      Department of Computer Science
      State University of New York
      Buffalo, NY 14260




2) TOOLS AND LANGUAGES FOR TRANSPORTABLE PARALLEL APPLICATIONS


      Parallelism & Transportability
      Tools/Languages
      Application Suitability
      Performance Issues
      Usability/Expressiveness Tradeoffs
      Scalability Issues
      Testing Tools
      Debuggers


      COORDITATOR
      -----------
      Cherri Pancake, pancake@cs.orst.edu
      Department of Computer Science
      Oregon State University
      Corvallis, OR 97331




3) OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE


      Parallel Operating Systems
      Distributed Microkernels
      Dynamically Alterable System Structure
      High Performance Communication Protocols


      COORDITATOR
      -----------
      Wolfgang Schroeder-Preikschat, wosch@first.gmd.de
      German National Research Center for Computer Science
      GMD FIRST
      Rudower Chaussee 5, D-1199
      Berlin, Germany




4) PARALLEL ALGORITHMS


      Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms in the
      following areas: Graph Theory, Image Processing,
      Computational geometry, and Combinatorics, and on
      the application of these areas in parallel computing.


      COORDITATORS
      ------------
      o Stephan Olariu, olariu@cs.odu.edu
      o James. L. Schwing, schwing@cs.odu.edu
      Department of Computer Science
      Old Dominion University
      Norfolk, VA 23529-0162




5) ISSUES AND PROBLEMS IN COMPILING FOR DISTRIBUTED MEMORY COMPUTER SYSTEMS


      Networks and Memory Hierarchies
      Optimal Allocation of Data Objects
      Optimizing for Locality of Reference
      Optimization of Communication
      Vectorization
      Parallelization
      Automatic Parallelization of Dusty Decks
      Tools for Building Parallel Applications
      Node-Level Optimizations


      COORDITATORS
      ------------
      o Alex Vasilevsky, alex@think.com
      o David Loshin, loshin@think.com
      Thinking Machines Corporation
      245 First Street
      Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142




6) PROGRAMMING MODELS AND PARADIGMS FOR PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING


      Shared Distributed Memory Model
      Virtual Shared Memory Model
      Multi-Threaded Computation Model
      Virtual Topology Programming Model
      New programming paradigms
      Parallel Languages


      COORDITATORS
      ------------
      o Wolfgang K. Giloi, w.giloi@compmail.com
          GMD Center for Innovative Computer Systems
          Berlin, Germany


      o Carl Chang, ckchang@eecs.uic.edu
      o Jon Solworth, solworth@eecs.uic.edu
      Dept. of EECS
      University of Illinois at Chicago
      Chicago, Illinois 60680




7) REAL-TIME COMPUTING


      Assignment of Real-Time Software in Parallel and Distributed Architectures
      Schedulability Analysis and Performance Prediction Methods
      Software Engineering Techniques for Construction of Complex Systems
      Languages
      Debuggers
      Compilers
      Code Generators and Other Tools
      Integration in Complex Heterogeneous Application Domains
      Fault-tolerance
      Dynamic and Adaptive Systems
      Responsive Systems


      COORDITATOR
      -----------
      Alexander D. Stoyenko, alex@vienna.njit.edu
      Real-Time Computing Lab
      Department of Computer & Information Science
      NJIT, University Heights
      Newark, NJ 07102.




8) PARALLEL & DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS


      Multidatabase Systems
      Distributed Database Systems
      Distributed File Systems
      Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems
      Object-Oriented Design for Large-Scale Database Systems


      COORDITATORS
      ------------
      o M.W. Bright, mikebright@vnet.ibm.com
          IBM
          18100 Frederick Pike
          Gaithersburg, MD 20879


      o Abdelsalam Helal, helal@cse.uta.edu
          Dept. of CSE
          University of Texas at Arlington
          Arlington, TX 76019


      o A.R. Hurson, a2h@ecl.psu.edu
          Dept. of ECE
          The Pennsylvania State University
          University Park, PA 16802




Instructions for Submitting Papers
==================================
Manuscripts should be 22-25 typewritten, double-spaced pages in length.
Please do not send submissions that are significantly shorter or longer
than this. Papers must not have been previously presented or published,
nor currently submitted for journal publication. Each manuscript will be
subjected to a rigorous refereeing process involving at least five
reviewers. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title
of the paper, full name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s), complete postal
and electronic mail address(es), telephone and FAX number(s), and a
300-word abstract of the paper.
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