CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE SESSION ON
         Applications of Object Oriented Technology to Parallel Computing

        International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
                     Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97)

                              June 30-July 2, 1997
                            Las Vegas, Nevada,  USA


TECHNICAL SESSION ON APPLICATIONS OF OBJECT ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY TO PARALLEL COMPUTING

Parallel applications out of several domains such as numerical computation, 
simulation and image processing gain more and more importance.
Nevertheless, to develop a successful product on the software market,
not only scientific aspects such as speedup, but also software aspects such as
reliability, security, reusability  and maintainability have to be considered.
Although object oriented technology has demonstrated its potential to aid
software developers to realize these tasks for ``conventional'' applications,
the parallel computing community has just started to use ``OO''.

The special session on Applications of Object Oriented Technology to Parallel 
Computing is planned  to cover different  aspects of
applying object oriented technology to parallel computing.
Using industry-relevant object oriented technology for parallel computing
will be in the center of interest, but contributions
concerning new concepts and research results regarding
object oriented technology for parallel computing are also welcome.

Topics of interest include:

- using OO-middleware (CORBA, OLE/COM/DCOM etc.) as a platform for parallel applications
- application of object development methods (Booch, OMT, etc.) to parallel computing
- design patterns (master-slave, etc.) for parallel applications
- OO-frameworks for parallel computation
- specific extensions to existing systems/methods with respect to parallel computing

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

To submit an  original research paper,  send your complete  manuscript (not to 
exceed  12 single-spaced pages of text using point size 11 type)  
TO THE SESSION CHAIR.  References, figures, tables, etc.   
must be included in  the  12 pages.  Electronic submissions are encouraged and 
should be sent to schneken@informatik.tu-muenchen.de.

Electronic submissions must contain the following header information in ASCII form: 
title, author name(s), abstract, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone and fax numbers. 
The header should be followed by the postscript version of the complete 
manuscript  (including title, author's name, affiliation, and abstract).

EVALUATION PROCESS:

Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and  soundness.
Each paper will be refereed by at least two researchers in the area.

PUBLICATION:

The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press. 
The proceedings will be available at the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

                 February 12, 1997 : Draft papers due
                    April  8, 1997 : Notification of acceptance
                      May 19, 1997 : Camera-Ready papers & Preregistration due


SESSION CHAIR ADDRESS:

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   Dr. Thomas Schnekenburger             | Mail: Inst. fuer Informatik
                                         |       Orleansstr. 34 
   Institut fuer Informatik              |       D-81667 Muenchen
Technische Universitaet Muenchen         |       GERMANY
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Phone: (089)48095-150,            Fax: (089)48095-160
e-mail: schneken@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
http://wwwpaul.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/personen/schneken.html
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
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