Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: kang@mpce.mq.edu.au (Kang Zhang)
Subject: Journal Special Issue
Organization: Macquarie University, NSW, Australia
Date: 10 Dec 1997 19:29:58 GMT
Message-ID: <66mqjm$hjc@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>

			Call For Papers

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

   	     Special Issue on Software Visualisation for 
		Parallel and Distributed Programming


Developing parallel and distributed programs for high performance computers 
is much harder than developing serial programs.  Recent advance in high 
performance computing hardware and the internet has not been matched by the 
availability of effective supporting software. Consequently, software 
visualisation techniques have been increasingly used in the software tools 
that assist the development of parallel and distributed programs. 

The term "software visualisation" refers to the graphical display of 
characteristics and behaviour of all aspects of software: design and 
analysis methods, systems, programs and algorithms. Visual programming and 
program visualisation have become important features of user-friendly and 
efficient programming tools and environments for parallel and distributed
systems. This special issue of IJSEKE aims at collecting and comparing wide 
range of software visualisation techiques and issues relating to the 
development of parallel and distributed programs. Although not limited to 
the following, manuscripts are sought from academia and industry on such 
topics as 

o Visual programming for parallel/distributed software construction
o Parallel performance visualisation
o Visual debugging of parallel/distributed programs
o Cognitive aspects of visual parallel/distributed programming 
o Intelligent user interfaces for distributed softare development
o Graphical formalisms for parallel and concurrent programs
o Software visualisation tools for programming parallel and distributed systems
o Knowledge-based systems supporting program visualisation and performance tuning
o Meta-tools for developing parallel/distributed visualisation software

	Submission deadline:		1 June 1998
	Notification due:		1 October 1998	
	Tentative publication date:	April 1999

Paper preparation guidelines can be found in any issue of the journal,
and also at http://www.ksi.edu/ijsk.html. Submissions should be sent by email 
in postscript format, or by post with five hardcopies to either of the guest editors: 

	Kang ZHANG			Guenter HARING 
	Department of Computing		Institute of Applied Computer Science
	School of MPCE			  and Information Systems
	Macquarie University		University of Vienna
	Sydney, NSW 2109		Lenaugasse 2/8, A-1080 Wien
	Australia			Austria

	Tel. +61-2-98509515		Tel. +43-1-4086366
	Fax. +61-2-98509551		Fax. +43-1-4080450
	email: kang@mpce.mq.edu.au	email: rodo@ani.univie.ac.at

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