[comp.parallel] CFP: Workshop on Parallel & Distributed Debugging

bart@asiago.cs.wisc.edu (Bart Miller) (11/27/90)

                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                               ACM/ONR
            WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED DEBUGGING
                           May 20-21, 1991
                        Santa Cruz, California

     ACM SIGPLAN and SIGOPS, and the Office  of  Naval  Research,  are
sponsoring  a  workshop  on  parallel  and distributed debugging.  The
workshop will bring together researchers, system designers, and imple-
mentors  in a common forum to discuss program monitoring and debugging
for parallel and distributed systems.  The workshop  will  consist  of
technical sessions, where participants 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):

+    methodological issues - interactive debugging, execution  tracing
     and animation;

+    debugging large, parallel, scientific applications;

+    static (source-based) analysis techniques,  and  dynamic  (trace-
     based) analysis techniques;

+    impact of programming language semantics on debugging;

+    user interfaces and programming environments for debugging;

+    temporal issues - real-time constraints,  race  condition  detec-
     tion, event ordering;

+    architecture, operating system, and protocol support for parallel
     or distributed debugging;

+    debugging real-time systems;

+    debugging as part of reliable system design.

     Attendance will be limited to approximately 60 active researchers
in  the  field.  To participate, please submit a 5 page, double spaced
(firm limit) extended abstract.  Attendance at the workshop will be by
invitation based on the submitted extended abstracts.

     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, and will appear as  a  special
issue  of  SIGPLAN  Notices.  A summary of the workshop will appear in
SIGOPS Operating Systems Review.


Send 10 copies of the       Important dates:
extended abstracts to:

Bart Miller                 Submission deadline:     December 15, 1990
Computer Sciences Dept      Acceptance notification: February 14, 1991
University of Wisconsin     Final papers due:        April 15, 1991
1210 W. Dayton Street       Workshop:                May 20-21, 1991
Madison, WI 53706

Tel: (608)263-3378
Internet: bart@cs.wisc.edu


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Bart Miller        University of Wisconsin-Madison (co-chair)
Charlie McDowell   University of California, Santa Cruz (co-chair)
Stuart Feldman     Bellcore
Gary Koob          Office of Naval Research
Tom LeBlanc        University of Rochester
Mark Linton        Stanford University
David Padua        University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Udi Shapiro        Weizmann Institute
K.C. Tai           NSF
Richard Taylor     University of California, Irvine