eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) (11/22/90)
Several people maintain bibliographies (reading lists) on topics involving parallelism, parallel debugging, OSes, algorithms, etc. Suggestions to all authors of papers on parallelism: 1) please supply a key word list to supplement your paper. DO NOT mimic the words in the title! Modern search techniques makes this a redundant exercise. 2) Instead, please take a thoughtful moment to consider the general areas of interest not mentioned in your title. Computing Reviews and the ACM have subject descriptors. These are useful. 3) Abreviations and acronyms (expanded AND contracted) are helpful. You would be amazed how many projects are named MIDAS (not a suggested name). Papers involving "massively parallel" systems are particularly bad offenders (SIMD). Please use new, descriptive titles and key words. 4) Do a literature search before publication. Papers are starting to title conflicts (collisions). Make certain you are not using a title used by another author; it will save you much embarassment and more readers.