Communicating Process Architectures
Communicating Process Architectures 2014,
the 36th. WoTUG conference on concurrent and parallel systems, takes place from
Sunday August 24th to Wednesday August 27th 2014 and is hosted by the
Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.
Accommodation and evening Fringe sessions will be at
St. Anne's College,
a few minutes walk from the Department.
About WoTUG
WoTUG provides a forum for the discussion and promotion of concurrency ideas,
tools and products in computer science.
It organises specialist workshops and annual conferences that address
key concurrency issues at all levels of software and hardware granularity.
WoTUG aims to progress the leading state of the art in:
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theory (programming models, process algebra, semantics, ...);
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practice (multicore processors and run-times, clusters, clouds, libraries, languages, verification, model checking, ...);
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education (at school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, ...);
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applications (complex systems, modelling, supercomputing, embedded systems, robotics, games, e-commerce, ...);
and to stimulate discussion and ideas on the roles concurrency will play in the future:
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for the next generation of scalable computer infrastructure (hard and soft) and application,
where scaling means the ability to ramp up functionality (stay in control as complexity increases)
as well as physical metrics (such as absolute performance and response times);
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for system integrity (dependability, security, safety, liveness, ...);
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for making things simple.
Of course, neither of the above sets of bullets are exclusive.
WoTUG publications
A database of papers and presentations from WoTUG conferences is here.
The Abstract below has been randomly selected from this database.
A Deadlock Detection Tool for Occam
By Wouter Joosen, Pierre Verbaeten
A problem that occurs frequently during the development of parallel programs is deadlock.In the domain of transputer technology (and of parallel computing in general) run time debugging software still is a problem. This increases the value of verification tools based on static analysis, even if the functionality is sometimes limited.In this paper we present our approach to static analysis. The analyzer reduces an occam program to the relevant actions hi the context of this problem (communication, possibly through guards: PAR constructions...), and subsequently examines the program, reporting possible problems that could occur during real execution. The tool goes beyond the purpose of detecting deadlocks only: other infinite wait situations are also reported.
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