[news.announce.conferences] CFP: First Int'l Workshop on Transaction Machine Architecture

mfreeman@cascade.stanford.edu (Martin Freeman) (01/15/88)

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

  FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TRANSACTION MACHINE ARCHITECTURE (TMA-I)

             Lake Arrowhead, California, September 25-28, 1988

      Sponsored by Computer Society of the IEEE: TCMM, TCDE, TCVLSI
                     In Cooperation with ACM: SIGMOD
                    Supported by: Amdahl Corporation
                     & IBM Almaden Research Center


WORKSHOP EMPHASIS:

    *  Transaction Processing Architecture

    *  Experimental Analysis of Architectural Design Choices

    *  Stable Storage Techniques

    *  Main Memory Database Architectures

    *  High Performance Secondary Storage

    *  High Performance Communication

    *  Architectural Support for Recovery and Fault Tolerance

    *  Architectural Support for Online Reconfiguration
       (Continuous Operation)

    *  Front-End vs Back-End Architectures

    *  Transaction Machine vs Database Machine Architectures

WORKSHOP BACKGROUND:

Recent technological developments have made possible high-speed
transaction processing systems (> 1000 transaction per second).
This workshop is intended to bring together computer system
architects, database system architects, transaction system architects,
designers, practitioners, and the research community to provide a
forum for in-depth discussions of architectures and architectural
support for achieving high-performance transaction processing
machines.

Participation is by invitation only. Each participant is expected to
actively contribute to the workshop by submitting either a position
paper, an extended abstract, or a full paper (approximately 5000 words).
Full papers accepted for presentation will be published in book form.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Dieter Gawlick,  Amdahl (Chairman)
Haran Boral, MCC
Hector Garcia-Molina, Princeton
Al Hoagland, University of Santa Clara
Randy Katz, UC Berkeley
Richard Muntz, UCLA
Andreas Reuter, University of Stuttgart
Barry Rubinson, DEC
Robert Salinger, IBM
Alfred Spector, Carnegie-Mellon
Michael Stonebraker, UC Berkeley

WORKSHOP CHAIRMEN:

General:   Martin Freeman
           Stanford University &
           Philips Research Labs
           Signetics Corporation, MS 02
           811 E. Arques Avenue
           Sunnyvale, CA  94086
	   (408) 991-3591
	   mfreeman@sierra.stanford.edu

Program:   Dieter Gawlick
	   Amdahl
	   Amdahl Corporation, MS 213
	   1250 E. Arques Avenue
	   Sunnyvale, CA  94088-3470
	   (408) 746-7011
	   amdahl!gawlick@sun.com

SUBMISSIONS:

Five copies of submitted papers should be sent to the program chairman,
and will be accepted for evaluation until February 15, 1988. Submissions
will be read by members and designated reviewers of the program 
committee.

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by April 15, 1988.
Accepted papers must be typed on special forms and received by the
program chairman by June 1, 1988.
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