Call For Papers and Referees in High Performance Distributed Systems: Design, Implementation, and Applications for the Software Technology Track of the 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-29 Maui, Hawaii - January 3-6, 1996 ********************************************************************* This year, the Software Technology Track of HICSS-29 will focus on a broad selection of topics in the area of High Performance Distributed Systems: Design, Implementation, and Applications. 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 high performance distributed systems. We invite papers that may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial, or descriptive in nature. Those papers selected for presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings. HICSS-29 is sponsored by the University of Hawaii. 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 (publisher and exact dates of publication) at a later time. 1995 Deadlines ************** o A 300-word abstract by March 15 o Feedback to author on abstract by April 3 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 2 Software Technology Track Co-Chairs =================================== Hesham El-Rewini Bruce Shriver Department of Computer Science HICSS-29 Co-Chairman University of Nebraska at Omaha 17 Bethea Drive Omaha, NE 68182 Ossining, NY 10562-1620 Phone: (402) 554-2852 Phone: (914) 762-3251 Fax: (402) 554-2975 Fax: (914) 941-9181 Email: rewini@unocss.unomaha.edu Email: shriver@genesis2.com Software Technology Track Advisory Committee ******************************************** - - Dharma Agrawal, North Carolina State University, USA - - Selim Akl, Queen's University, CANADA - - Vicki Allan, Utah State University, USA - - Jim Anderson, University of North Carolina, USA - - Karsten M. Decker, Swiss Scientific Computing Center, SWITZERLAND - - Hesham El-Rewini, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA - - Jeff Kramer, Imperial College, UK - - Tore Larsen, Tromso University, NORWAY - - Harlod W. Lawson, Lawson Foerlag & Konsult AB, SWEDEN - - Joseph Leung, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA - - Sape J. Mullender, University of Twente, NETHERLANDS - - Wolfgang Schroeder-Preikschat, National Research Center for CS, GERMANY - - Gregory A. Riccardi, Florida State University, USA - - Bruce Shriver, Genesis2, Inc. & University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA - - Alok Sinha, Microsoft, USA - - David Skillicorn, Queen's University, CANADA - - Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA - - Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA Instructions for Submitting Papers ********************************** Manuscripts should 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. 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 numbers, and a 300-word abstract of the paper. 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. Persons interested in refereeing in these areas should contact the Minitrack Coordinators directly. 1) APPROACHES TO PERSISTENCY IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS Semantics of persistent objects, efficient and save type-handling, object addressing schemes, granularity of distribution, sharing and persistence, configurability of object stores, integration of parallel I/O, impact of new hardware development, distributed persistent applications. COORDINATOR ----------- Joerg Nolte, jon@trc.rwcp.or.jp Tsukuba Research Center of Real World Computing Partnership Tsukuba Mitsui Building, 1-6-1 Takezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, JAPAN 2) HIGH SPEED NETWORKS Design and analysis of distributed algorithms, transmission algorithms, static and dynamic routing, analysis of intermediate and endpoint functions, flow control, fault tolerance, reconfiguration techniques, embedding and mapping problems. COORDINATORS ------------ Evangelos Kranakis, kranakis@scs.carleton.ca School of Computer Science Carleton University Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, CANADA Danny Krizanc, krizanc@scs.carleton.ca School of Computer Science Carleton University Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, CANADA 3) PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED OPERATING SYSTEMS Parallel operating systems, support for repartitionable parallel architectures, locking mechanisms, distributed operating systems, microkernel organization, distributed deadlock detection, distributed mutual exclusion, distributed shared memory, coherency mechanisms, extensible caching policies, high performance communication protocols, light weight remote procedure calls. COORDINATORS ------------ Steve J. Chapin, sjc@mcs.kent.edu Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Kent State University Kent, OH 44242 Arthur B. Maccabe, maccabe@cs.unm.edu Department of Computer Science University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-1386 4) OPTIMIZATION IN PARALLELIZING COMPILERS Loop transformation theory, program partitioning, task creation and scheduling in multithreaded multiprocessors, cache performance optimization and software prefetching at compile and run time, communication performance prediction and optimization for regular and irregular parallel computation, compile and run time support for task parallelism, automatic task definition and data distribution. COORDINATORS ------------ Balaram Sinharoy, balaram@vnet.ibm.com Systems Technology and Architecture Division IBM Corporation Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-5400 Boleslaw K. Szymanski, szymansk@cs.rpi.edu Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180-3590 5) HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSING Applications, algorithms, programming paradigms, languages and compilers, Profiling, visualization, interconnection networks, prototype systems, frameworks for heterogeneous computing, debugging in heterogeneous environments, performance modeling and evaluation, benchmarking. COORDINATORS ------------ Y. M. Teo, teoym@iscs.nus.sg Dept. of Info. Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, SINGAPORE 0511 Gary S. H. Tan, gtan@iscs.nus.sg Dept. of Info. Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, SINGAPORE 0511 6) PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION Performance prediction and evaluation of distributed discrete event simulation protocols, simulation languages and tools, automated parallelization, adaptive protocols, dynamic load balancing and logical process migration, simulated direct execution of parallel codes, monitoring and debugging. COORDINATOR ----------- Alois Ferscha, ferscha@ani.univie.ac.at Institut Fuer Angewandte Informatik Universitaet Wien, Lanaugasse 2/8 A-1080 Vienna, AUSTRIA 7) DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Specification, analysis and testing technologies, formal methods, applications, distribution and concurrency, operating system support, language and tool support, fault tolerance, performance modeling and analysis, safety aspects in real time systems. COORDINATORS ------------ Insup Lee, lee@cis.upenn.edu Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 10104 Krishna Kavi, kavi@cse.uta.edu Department of Computer Science Engineering University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX 76019-0015 Nikola Serbedzija, nikola@first.gmd.de GMD FIRST Rudower Chaussee 5, D-12489 Berlin, GERMANY 8) PARTITIONING AND SCHEDULING Static and dynamic scheduling, load balancing, communication and I/O scheduling, Partitioning and scheduling in scientific and engineering computing, scheduling tools, scheduling on workstation based networks, task migration, benchmarking and performance evaluation. COORDINATORS ------------ Ishfaq Ahmad, iahmad@cs.ust.hk Dept. of Computer Science Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, HONG KONG Horst D. Simon, horst@engr.sgi.com Silicon Graphics Mail Stop 7L-580, 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mt. View, CA 94043 Tao Yang, hconf@cs.ucsb.edu Dept. of Computer Science University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106