HICSS-30 CFP: Mini-Track on Partitioning and Scheduling

The software technology track at HICSS 30 is focusing on Distributed
Systems. As part of a complementary set of mini-tracks in this area we
are runing a mini-track on Partitioning and Scheduling for Distributed
Systems. In the spirit of HICSS this mini-track will encourage
discussion on the state-of-the-art in Partitioning and Scheduling for
Distributed Systems. The papers should address the following topics:


      * Static and dynamic scheduling
      * partitioning schemes
      * load balancing
      * performance and benchmarking
      * impact of granularity
      * heterogeneous systems and clusters
      * decomposition of mathematical and engineering applications
      * tools and compilers for task clustering and scheduling.


Information regarding the other mini-tracks and the conference can be
obtained from the general call-for-papers enclosed below or from the
WWW at the following location:


http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss


Instructions to authors and referees
------------------------------------


Submission of papers will be in two phases. Submit a 300-word abstract by
15th March 1996 and then eight (8) copies of the manuscript by 1st June
1996. Manuscripts should have an abstract and be 22-25 typewritten,
double-spaced pages in length. 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. Abstracts for the Partitioning and Scheduling
mini-track should be submitted by electronic mail or post to one of the
mini-track co-ordinators. The manuscripts must be submitted by post to
one of the mini-track co-ordinators.


If you would like to be a referee send an email to one of the co-ordinators.
In the email for being a referee, you should include your name, postal address,
email address and your areas of expertise.


        Ishfaq Ahmad
        Dept. of Computer Science
        Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
        Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, HONG KONG
        E:Mail: iahmad@cs.ust.hk


        Sekhar Darbha
        Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
        Rutgers University
        Piscataway, NJ 08855-0909
        USA
        E:Mail: darbha@ece.rutgers.edu


Further details can be obtained from the WWW at the following location:
http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~darbha/hicss.html


_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
                                      Call For Papers and Referees


                                        Software Technology Track
                                                            of the
          30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-30
                                Maui, Hawaii - January 7-10, 1997
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________


Authors are invited to submit papers describing the new advances in
theory, design, implementation, use, application, and performance
evaluation of high performance distributed systems. We welcome papers
that may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial, or descriptive in
nature. The Software Technology Track consists of ten (10) minitracks
that cover a broad selection of timely and important topics in the
area of distributed systems. The specific topics and coordinators of
the minitracks are listed at the end of this call. Individuals
interested in refereeing papers should contact the minitrack
coordinators directly.
_______________________________________________________________________


Instructions for Authors
------------------------
Submit a 300-word abstract and then eight (8) copies of the manuscript to
one of the minitrack coordinators according to their areas of responsibility
by the given deadlines. Manuscripts should have an abstract and be 22-25
typewritten, double-spaced pages in length. 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.
_______________________________________________________________________


Track Chairman
--------------
Hesham El-Rewini
Department of Computer Science
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182
Phone: (402) 554-2852
Fax: (402) 554-2975
Email: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu
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Track Advisory Committee
------------------------
o Gul Agha, University of Illinois, USA
o Khalil M. Ahmed, University of Alexandria, EGYPT
o Jim Anderson, University of North Carolina, USA
o Jim Costa, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
o Karsten M. Decker, Swiss Scientific Computing Center, SWITZERLAND
o Alois Ferscha, Universitaet Wien, AUSTRIA
o Apostolos Gerasoulis, Rutgers University, USA
o Wolfgang A. Halang, Fernuniversitaet, GERMANY
o Alexey Lastovetsky, Institute for System Programming, RUSSIA
o Thomson Leighton, MIT, USA
o Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA
o Alok Sinha, Microsoft, USA
o Pradip Srimani, Colorado State University, USA
o Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA
o Caetano Traina Junior, University of Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
o Peter Wegner, Brown University, USA
o Chung-Kwong Yuen, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
o Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
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1996 Deadlines
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o A 300-word abstract by March 15
o Feedback to author on abstract by April 15
o Eight copies of the manuscript by June 1
o Notification of accepted papers by August 31
o Camera-ready copies of accepted manuscripts are due by October 1
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Tutorials
---------
Tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, January 7, 1997. Interested speakers
should submit full-day or half-day proposals to the track chairman by March
15, 1996.
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HICSS Information
-----------------
http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/hicss
_______________________________________________________________________


Topics and Coordinators of the Minitracks
-----------------------------------------


1) OBJECT-ORIENTED METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS


      Object-oriented modeling of high-performance distributed systems,
      designing distributed object systems using CORBA or COM, experience
      of applying object-oriented methods to distributed systems, integrating
      object-oriented techniques with formal validation and verification
      techniques, object-oriented design patterns for distributed systems.


                COORDINATORS
                ------------
                Ian Gorton, iango@syd.dit.csiro.au
                CSIRO Division of Information Technology
                Locked Bag 17, North Ryde,
                Sydney NSW 2113, AUSTRALIA


                Innes Jelly, i.e.jelly@shu.ac.uk
                School of Computing and Management Sciences
                Sheffield Hallam University,
                Sheffield S11 8HD, UK


                Peter Croll, prc@dcs.shef.ac.uk
                Dept. of Computer Science
                University of Sheffield
                Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK


                Guido Wirtz, guidow@math.uni-muenster.de
                Institut fuer Informatik, Fachbereich Mathematik,
                Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Einsteinstrasse 62,
                D-48149 Muenster, GERMANY
_______________________________________________________________________


2) DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS PLATFORMS


      Comparison of object-based distributed systems, compatibility issues
      and emerging object standards: OLE, CORBA, OODCE, etc., distributed
      objects over the web, distributed object services: security, trading,
      transactions, replication, etc., performance evaluation, experiences,
      implementation issues.


                COORDINATORS
                ------------
                Rachid Guerraoui, guerraoui@lse.epfl.ch
                DI-LSE EPFL IN-Ecublens
                1015 Lausanne
                Switzerland


                Steve Vinoski, vinoski@ch.hp.com
                Hewlett-Packard, MS CHR-03-DW
                300 Apollo Drive
                Chelmsford, MA 01824
_______________________________________________________________________


3) PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS


      Design and analysis of parallel and distributed algorithms in:
      graph theory, image processing, computational geometry, networks
      and combinatorics, applications and cost models.


                COORDINATORS
                ------------
                Michael A. Langston, langston@cs.utk.edu
                Department of Computer Science
                University of Tennessee
                Knoxville, TN 37996-1301


                Stephan Olariu, olariu@cs.odu.edu
                Department of Computer Science
                Old Dominion University
                Norfolk, VA 23529-0162


                James. L. Schwing, schwing@cs.odu.edu
                Department of Computer Science
                Old Dominion University
                Norfolk, VA 23529-0162
_______________________________________________________________________


4) MULTI-THREADED SYSTEMS


      Programming languages for multi-threaded systems, analytical
      performance models, empirical performance studies, multiple
      context processors, interleaving of multiple threads, cache
      memory designs, fine-grained and coarse grained multithreading,
      runtime and kernel support for multithreading.


                COORDINATORS
                ------------
                Krishna Kavi, kavi@cse.uta.edu
                Department of Computer Science Engineering
                University of Texas at Arlington
                Arlington, TX 76019-0015


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


5) COORDINATION LANGUAGES, MODELS, SYSTEMS


      Models, languages and mechanisms for coordination, operating system
      and middleware support for coordination, compiling techniques and
      semantic issues for coordination languages, coordination in software
      architecture design, case studies with industrial relevance.


                COORDINATOR
                -----------
                Paolo Ciancarini, cianca@cs.unibo.it
                Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Bologna
                Pza. di Porta S.Donato, 5, 40127 Bologna, ITALY
_______________________________________________________________________


6) SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS


      Development methodologies of distributed software systems,
      specification, verification and validation, application of formal
      methods, prototyping, testing, and performance measurement, impact
      of distributed or parallel languages and architectures on
      development techniques, CASE tools and run-time support
      environments, problems encountered in industrial systems, software
      reuse.


                  Patrick Nixon, Paddy.Nixon@cs.tcd.ie
                  Dept. of Computer Science
                  Trinity College,
                  University of Dublin, IRELAND


                  Vinny Cahill, Vinny.Cahill@dsg.cs.tcd.ie
                  Dept. of Computer Science
                  Trinity College
                  University of Dublin, IRELAND


                  Fethi Rabhi, F.A.Rabhi@dcs.hull.ac.uk
                  Parallel Processing Group
                  Dept. of Computer Science
                  University of Hull, Hull, UK
_______________________________________________________________________


7) DISTRIBUTED PERSISTENT ARCHITECTURES


      Models of distribution in persistent systems, resilience in distributed
      persistent systems, replication in persistent systems, protection in
      distributed persistent systems, concurrency control for persistent
      systems,garbage collection in distributed persistent systems, and
      experiences with distributed persistent applications.


                COORDINATORS
                ------------
                John Rosenberg, johnr@cs.su.oz.au
                Department of Computer Science
                University of Adelaide
                N.S.W. 2006, AUSTRALIA


                Alan Dearle, al@cs.stir.ac.uk
                Department of Computer Science
                University of Stirling
                FK9 4LA, SCOTLAND


                Richard Connor, richard@dcs.st-and.ac.uk
                Department of Mathematical and Computational Science
                University of St Andrews
                St Andrews, KY10 0DR
_______________________________________________________________________


8) PARTITIONING AND SCHEDULING


      Static and dynamic scheduling, partitioning schemes, load balancing,
      performance and benchmarking, impact of granularity, heterogeneous
      systems and clusters, decomposition of mathematical and engineering
      applications, tools, compilers for task clustering and scheduling.


                COORDINATORS
                ------------
                Ishfaq Ahmad, iahmad@cs.ust.hk
                Dept. of Computer Science
                Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
                Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, HONG KONG


                Sekhar Darbha, darbha@ece.rutgers.edu
                Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
                Rutgers University
                Piscataway, NJ 08855-0909.
_______________________________________________________________________


9) DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENTS


      Virtual world representation, distributed modeling and simulation,
      multimedia data processing, networking issues, communication issues,
      user interface, performance evaluation.


                COORDINATOR
                -----------
                Guenter Haring, haring@ani.univie.ac.at
                Institut Fuer Angewandte Informatik
                Universitaet Wien, Lanaugasse 2/8
                A-1080 Vienna, AUSTRIA
_______________________________________________________________________


10) DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA AND COLLABORATION OVER THE WEB


      OS support for resource admission, allocation and scheduling, media
      and clock synchronization, networking architectures and protocols,
      static/dynamic load management strategies, distributed multimedia
      applications, web-based collaborative applications, support for
      collaboration over the web, support for security and privacy,
      scalability, concurrency control, floor control, access control, etc.


                COORDINATORS
                ------------
                Atul Prakash, aprakash@eecs.umich.edu
                Department of EECS,
                University of Michigan,
                Ann Arbor 48109-2122


                Nalini Venkatasubramanian, nalini@gaia.hpl.hp.com
                Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
                1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1U-17
                Palo Alto CA 94304


                Klara Nahrstedt, klara@cs.uiuc.edu
                Dept. of Computer Science
                3111 Digital Computer Laboratory
                1304 West Springfield Ave.
                Urbana IL 61801


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