CALL FOR PAPERS  -- FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT


                                 Minitrack on
                OPTIMIZATION  IN  PARALLELIZING  COMPILERS


  Papers are solicited for the Software Technology mini-track on "Optimization
  in Parallelizing Compilers" at the 29th Hawaii International Conference on
  System Sciences, HICSS-29, Maui, Hawaii - January 3-6, 1996. HICSS-29 is
  sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and the University of Hawaii. Experts
  in the field willing to act as referees are also sought.

  The papers selected for presentation will appear in the Conference
  Proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. After
  the conference, the extended versions of the accepted papers will be
  considered for a journal publication in a special issue of "Scientific
  Programming".

  THEME
  =====
  The minitrack will focus on the current research in compiler optimizations
  which exploit various architectural developments that have taken place in
  recent years. We invite papers that may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial,
  or descriptive in nature in this area.

  TOPICS OF INTEREST:
  ===================
  The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
     - task creation and scheduling in multithreaded multiprocessors
     - cache performance optimization and software prefetching
     - 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
     - loop transformation theory
     - program partitioning

  PAPER SUBMISSIONS:
  ==================
  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 addresses,
  telephone and FAX numbers, and a 300-word abstract of the paper. Abstracts
  and manuscripts should be submitted to one of the minitrack co-ordinators
  at the following addresses:

    Balaram Sinharoy                       Boleslaw Szymanski
    Mail Stop P315, 522 South Road         Department of Computer Science
    IBM Corporation                        Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-5400, USA       Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA
    Phone: (914) 435-5577                  Phone: (518) 276-2714
    Fax:  (914) 432-9413                   Fax:   (518) 276-4033
    E-mail: balaram@vnet.ibm.com           E-mail: szymansk@cs.rpi.edu
       or   sinharoy@cs.rpi.edu

  Potential reviewers are requested to send their biodata along with their
  mailing address, telephone numbers and e-mail address.

  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 by October 2