From: alex@Think.COM (Alex Vasilevsky)
Subject: Call For Papers and Referees, HICSS-27
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:00:03 GMT
Expires: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 08:00:00 GMT


		    Call For Papers and Referees
			         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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