[news.announce.conferences] CFP: Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging

taylor@hplabsc.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) (07/07/87)

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                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                        ACM SIGPLAN AND SIGOPS
            WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED DEBUGGING
                            May 5-6, 1988
                       University of Wisconsin
                       Madison, Wisconsin 53706

     ACM SIGPLAN and SIGOPS, in cooperation  with  the  University  of
Wisconsin,  are  sponsoring  a  workshop  on  parallel and distributed
debugging.  The workshop will  bring  together  system  designers  and
implementors  in  a  common  forum  to  discuss program monitoring and
debugging in parallel and distributed systems.  To facilitate  discus-
sion,  the workshop will consist of technical sessions, where partici-
pants make short formal presentations of their current work, and panel
discussions,  where specific topics of general interest or controversy
can be explored in detail.  Topics of specific interest  include  (but
are not limited to):

o    architecture, operating system, and protocol support  for  debug-
     ging parallel or distributed systems;

o    impact of programming language and semantics on debugging;

o    temporal issues - real-time constraints, performance  monitoring,
     event ordering;

o    methodological issues - interactive debugging,  user  interfaces,
     execution tracing and animation;

o    theoretical issues - models of debugging and programming.

     Attendance will be limited to approximately 50 active researchers
in  the field.  To participate, please submit a 5 page (double spaced)
extended abstract.  Attendance at the workshop will be  by  invitation
based on the submitted extended abstracts.

     All participants will be expected to submit a complete  paper  to
appear  in  the workshop proceedings.  The proceedings will be distri-
buted to all attendees at the workshop.  We anticipate a special jour-
nal  issue devoted to the best papers from the workshop.  A summary of
the workshop will appear in SIGOPS Operating Systems Review  and  SIG-
PLAN Notices.

Send 8 copies of the extended abstracts to:

Bart Miller
Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin
1210 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: (608)263-3378
ARPANET: bart@cs.wisc.edu

Important dates:
Submission deadline:       December 15, 1987
Acceptance notification:   February 15, 1988
Final papers due:          April 1, 1988
Workshop:                  May 5-6, 1988


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Bart Miller         University of Wisconsin-Madison (co-chair)
Tom LeBlanc         University of Rochester (co-chair)
Domenico Ferrari    University of California-Berkeley
Rick Rashid         Carnegie Mellon University
John Sopka          Digital Equipment Corp
Doug Terry          Xerox PARC
Andre van Tilborg   Office of Naval Research
Jack Wileden        University of Massachusetts

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