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