[comp.parallel] ICLP '91 Pre-Conference Workshop on Parallel Execution

gupta@compsci.bristol.ac.uk (05/30/91)

	        ICLP '91 Pre-Conference Workshop on

                Parallel Execution of Logic Programs 

			  Paris, France

		         June 24th, 1991


 8:00     Shuttle to INRIA (from place Charles de Gaulle - Etoile)

 Session I: Implementation Issues
 9:00 -- 10:40. Session Chair: Tony Beaumont

	A Debugger for Strand 
	   Martin Gittins, 
	   Strand Software Technologies Limited, UK.

 	Constraints Handling and Garbage Collection in ElipSys
	   Michel Dorochevsky, Kees Schuerman, Andre Veron, 
	   and Jiyang Xu,   ECRC, Germany.

	Controlling Search with Meta-Brave
	   P. Kefalas and T.J. Reynolds, 
	   University of Essex, UK.

	Optimization Problems in Aurora (invited)
	   Peter Szeredi, SZKI, Hungary.

 10:40 -- 11:00 Break

 Session II: The Andorra Model
 11:00 -- 12:40. Session Chair: Gopal Gupta

 	Title to be announced (invited)
           Seif Haridi, SICS, Sweden.

	KAPPA: A Kernel Andorra Prolog Parallel Architecture Design
	   Remco Moolenaar, Henk Van Acker, Bart Demoen,
	   KU Leuven, Belgium.

	A Flexibel Scheduler for the Andorra-I System
	   Ines de Castro Dutra, University of Bristol, UK.

	The Pandora Abstract Machine: An Extension of JAM
	   Reem Bahgat, City University of London, UK.

 13:00 -- 14:00 Lunch Break (lunch provided by INRIA)

 Session III: Performance Evaluation
 14:00 -- 15:15. Session Chair: Manuel Heremengildo

	Performance of MUSE System on the BBN Butterfly
	   Khayri Ali, Roland Karlsson, Shyam Mudambi, 
	   SICS, Sweden and Brandeis University, USA. 

	Speculative Scheduling in the Aurora System: Performance Results
	   Tony Beaumont,  University of Bristol, UK.

	Performance of Competetive Or-parallelism
	   Wolfgang Ertel,  TU Munchen, Germany. 

 15:15 -- 15:45 Break

 Session IV: Models of Parallel Execution
 15:45 -- 17:25, Session Chair: Khayri Ali

	A Stack Copying Approach to And-Or Parallelism
	   Gopal Gupta and Manuel Hermenegildo, 
	   University of Bristol, UK and UPM, Spain.

	Blackboard Communication in Prolog
	   Koenraad O. M. Bosschere,  
	   State University of Ghent, Belgium.

	Data Parallelism in Logic Programming
	   Giancarlo Succi, Giuseppe Marino, 
	   Universita di Genova, Italia.

	Efficient Binding Management In Or-parallel Model
	   H. Bourzoufi, G. Goncalves, P. Lecouffe, B. Toursel, 
	   Universite de LILLE, France.

 18:00 Shuttle to place Charles de Gaulle - Etoile


 If you plan to participate, please note the following:

    --  The workshop will be held  at INRIA, which is in the
        suburbs of Paris, near Versailles. 

    --  Free transportation to and from INRIA will be provided.
  	A shuttle will leave Paris, place Charles de Gaulle - Etoile 
	(in front of the Parking Foch) at 8:00 am for INRIA. It will 
	drive the participants back to Paris, place Charles de Gaulle at 
	6:00 pm. Public transportation is not recommended. 

    --  Each talk will last 25 minutes which includes 5 minutes
	for questions.

    --  Informal proceedings would be available (cost 50FF).
  
    --  There is no extra registration fees for the workshops
  	for people attending the conference. There is a special 
	registration rate for people attending only the workshops and 
	not the conference. See the conference program. (You need to
	tick box W1 in your conference registration form to indicate
	that you want to attend this workshop).

    --  More information about the conference and how to register
	can be obtained from: INRIA Rocquencourt, Bureau des Colloques, 
	Domaine de Volceau -- Rocquencourt-BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, 
	France or by email from symposia@cluny.inria.fr.

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-Tony Beaumont and Gopal Gupta,
Parallel Logic Programming Research Group,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Bristol,
Queens's Building, University Walk,
Bristol, BS8 1TR.
email : US: {gupta, beaumont}%compsci.bristol.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK
        Europe: {gupta, beaumont}@compsci.bristol.ac.uk



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\noindent Please note the following:
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\item{$\bullet$} The workshop will be held  at INRIA, which is in the
  suburbs of Paris, near Versailles. 

\item{$\bullet$} Each talk will last 25 minutes which includes 5 minutes
for questions.
  
\item{$\bullet$} There is no extra registration fees for the workshops
  for people attenting the conference. There is a special registration 
  rate for people attenting only the workshops and not the conference.
  See the conference program.

\item{$\bullet$} Free transportation to INRIA will be provided.
  A shuttle will leave Paris, place Charles de Gaulle - Etoile (in front
  of the Parking Foch) at 8:00 am for INRIA. It will drive the participants
  back to Paris, place Charles de Gaulle at 6:00 pm. Public transportation 
  is not recommended. 

\item{$\bullet$} Informal proceedings would be available (cost 50FF).

\item{$\bullet$} More information about the conference and how to register
can be obtained from: INRIA Rocquencourt, Bureau des Colloques,
Domaine de Volceau -- Rocquencourt-BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay C\'edex,
France or by email from symposia@cluny.inria.fr.


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Department of Computer Science,            comp.parallel
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