Preliminary Call for Papers International Symposium on __________________________ Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDSE'98) ________________________________________________________________________ At the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-20) April 19-25, 1998 - Kyoto International Conference Hall, Kyoto, JAPAN ============================================= = http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~prc/PDSE98 = ============================================= Symposium Chairpersons ---------------------- Dr Naoshi Uchihira, Toshiba Co., Japan (uchi@ssel.toshiba.co.jp) Prof Bernd Kraemer, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany Publication: Dr Stefano Russo, University of Naples, Italy Publicity: Dr Peter Croll, University of Sheffield, UK (croll@computer.org) Steering Committee ------------------------ Prof Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Dr Ian Gorton, CSIRO Division of Information Technology, Australia Dr Innes Jelly, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Prof Bernd Kraemer, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany Dr Stefano Russo, University of Naples, Italy Dr Naoshi Uchihira, Toshiba Co., Japan Program Committee --------------------------------------- Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana USA Doo-Hwan Bae KAIST Korea Arndt Bode Techniche Universitaet Muenchen Germany Manfred Broy Techniche Universitaet Muenchen Germany Helmar Burkhart Universitaet Basel Switzerland Shing-chi Cheung HK University of Science & Technology Hong Kong Peter Croll University of Sheffield UK Karsten Decker CSCS Switzerland Hesham El-Rewini University of Nebraska at Omaha USA Zengo Furukawa Kyushu University Japan Jean-Luc Gaudiot University of Southern California USA Morven Gentleman IIT, National Research Council Canada Carlo Ghezzi Politecnico di Milano Italy Ian Gorton Transarc Co. Australia Innes Jelly Sheffield Hallam University UK Chung-Shyan Liu Chung Yuan Christian University Taiwan John Potter Microsoft Res. Inst., Macquarie Univ. Australia Stefano Russo Universita' di Napoli Federico II Italy Doug Schmidt Washington University USA Sol Shatz University of Illinois at Chicago USA Emilio Zapata Universidad de Malaga Spain OVERVIEW ======== Many software applications require the use of explicit concurrent programming techniques in order to meet their specification. Concurrency and distribution are needed to exploit the processing power of multiprocessor systems in order to achieve high performance, to provide fault-tolerance and reliability in safety-critical and real-time systems,and to deal with physically distributed computing resources. Some application areas include distributed information systems, client/server systems, multimedia systems, CSCW, high-performance computing, simulation, real-time and process control systems, embedded systems, manufacturing systems. Managing parallelism and distribution for applications in the above areas is a complex activity, demanding for adequate engineering methodologies and proper support tools. Much of the work to date on the development of parallel and distributed software has emphasized the later stages of the process: language issues, algorithms, machine dependent aspects eg mapping, routing, load balancing, have been well explored. But engineers of these software systems are also faced with other problems, including: - identification of problem-domain and solution-domain parallelism - dealing with concurrency in the specification and design phases - validation and testing of P&D applications - performance prediction and evaluation - dealing with systems heterogeneity Software engineers must deal with these issues in addition to tackling the more commonly identified problems which occur in all software projects. To date, many of the papers which address software engineering issues involved in the development of these systems have appeared in journals and conferences which are technology specific. This fragmentation has meant that researchers and practitioners have lacked a forum for the exploration of common issues. This symposium series on parallel and distributed software engineering attempts to fill this gap, aiming at providing a "one-stop" coverage of the area. SYMPOSIUM AIMS =============== The PDSE series of events provides a forum for exchange of information and publication of the latest technological and theoretical advances in software engineering for parallel and distributed systems. The Symposium will focus on the problems that are unique to the software engineer developing parallel and distributed systems. To this end, the following non-exhaustive list of topics will be considered: - development methodologies - impact of languages (eg Java) and architectures on development techniques - interoperability in open distributed applications and the impact of distributed objects computing technologies like CORBA, DCOM & Java RMI - architectural concepts and design techniques for parallel and distributed applications - application of formal methods - testing and verification - performance modelling and prediction - software reuse technology - CASE environments and support tools - object oriented techniques and design patterns - observance of behavioural properties across abstraction levels - practical experiences of software engineering problems encountered in industrial systems The Symposium is the third event in the PDSE series. Previous events were the PDSE Workshops which were co-located with ICSE-18 in Berlin, March 1996, and with ICSE-19 in Boston, May 1997. It will be of interest to both industrial and academic practitioners and researchers who have experience in developing software for parallel and distributed systems. It will also be relevant to practising software engineers who are interested in developing expertise in the field for research and development purposes. Submission of Papers: --------------------- Prospective authors should send four copies of a full paper (maximum of 5000 words) to Dr Naoshi Uchihira (address below). Electronic submission via the WWW will be strongly encouraged: details of this will be made available nearer the time, see the symposium web page: (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~prc/PDSE98) All papers will be fully refereed by at least 3 reviewers. We will negotiate with publishers for publishing the proceedings internationally. The Proceedings of PDSE'97 were published by IEEE Computer Society. Important dates are: Paper submission: December 12th, 1997 Notification of acceptance: January 30th, 1998 Camera-ready copies: February 27th, 1998 Paper submissions and further enquiries to: ------------------------------------------- Dr Naoshi Uchihira Systems and Software Research Laboratories Toshiba Corporation 70, Yanagi-cho, Saisai-ku, Kawasaki 210, Japan Email: uchi@ssel.toshiba.co.jp Tel.: +81-44-548-5690 Fax: +81-44-520-5855 ______________________________________________________________________ Expression of interest in PDSE98: If you are interested in PDSE98, please return the following information by E-mail to uchi@ssel.toshiba.co.jp: Name (including title): ............................................... Affiliation: .......................................................... 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