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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