CALL FOR PAPERS
Southampton, UK Sept 1-4, 1998
Workshop 18: Programming Models and Methods
Programme Committee:
General Chair:
Christian Lengauer (Passau, Germany)
Local Chair:
Murray Cole (Edinburgh, UK)
Vice-Chair:
Beverly Sanders (Florida at Gainesville, USA)
Vice-Chair:
Gaétan Hains (Orléans, France)
Description:
Producing correct software is already a difficult task in the
sequential context. The challenge is compounded by the conceptual
complexity of parallelism and the requirement for high performance.
Thus, the topics of this workshop are programming and design
models that abstract from low-level programming techniques, present
software developers with an interface that reduces the complexity
of the parallel software construction task, and support correctness
issues. It is also concerned with methodological aspects of developing
parallel programs, particularly transformational and calculational
approaches, and associated ways of integrating cost information into
them.
This workshop emphasizes programming. Related workshops are WS04,
which emphasizes automation, WS10, which emphasizes computability
and complexity, and WS16, which emphasizes language features and
their implementation.
Topics of interest:
- program transformation
- parallel programming calculi
- program transformation
- algorithmic skeletons
- rigorous design processes
- cost modelling
- development tactics and strategies
- correctness and verification
- experience with methodological approaches
Submission Details
The standard submission mechanism for all Euro-Par 98 workshops is
electronic. Paper
submissions are only allowed for people without easy access to standard
electronic facilities. For these, the cover page must clearly indicate
the name, address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address of the
author(s), and contain a 100-word abstract and keywords. The workshop
number and the workshop title relating to each submitted paper must
also be clearly indicated on the cover page. Authors should send six
copies of their submission to the official address, postmarked before
20 January 1998.
Official Address
Euro-Par'98,
The Department of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton,
Southampton, SO17 1BJ,
UK.