Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: Pradip Srimani Subject: IEEETSE Special Issue on Architecture-Independent Languages and Organization: Colorado State University Date: 12 Jan 1998 03:55:13 GMT Message-ID: <69c471$bl7$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> Call for Papers Special issue of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Architecture-Independent Languages and Software Tools for Parallel Processing Design and adoption of architecture independent programming languages and tools are necessary for general-purpose parallel processing. This approach allows development of portable and standardized parallel software on different parallel architectures, from SIMD machines to distributed-memory MIMD computers. The goal of this special issue is to address theoretical and practical issues in architecture-independent programming models, languages, and tools for parallel processing, present software engineering techniques in parallel programming, and report experiences in real-life applications using either new high-level languages or architecture-independent software environments. Further, this theme issue aims to improve the knowledge of the user community about parallel software development tools and provide innovative ideas on practical high-level programming of high-performance computers. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: o Architecture-independent programming models for parallel processing; o Comparison of languages and tools for parallel software con- struction; o High-level software paradigms for parallel processing; o Applications of architecture-independent parallel software tools; o Environments and tools for management of parallel software; o New high-performance environments and programming tools; o Practical ideas and software engineering techniques in par- allel programming; o Case Studies - success as well as failure stories. Papers should report innovative ideas and practical results in real- life applications; they should include evaluations through analy- sis, simulation and experiments possibly on different parallel plat- forms. Please submit six copies of your manuscript to one of the guest editors by May 30, 1998: Domenico Talia ISI-CNR c/o\ DEIS,\ UNICAL 87036 Rende, Italy Pho: +39 (984) 839047 Fax: +39 (984) 839054 Email: talia@si.deis.unical.it Pradip K. Srimani Department of Computer Science Colorado State University Ft. Collins, CO 80523 USA Pho: +(970) 491-7097 Fax: +(970) 491-2466 Email: srimani@cs.colostate.edu Mehdi Jazayeri Distributed Systems Department (184-1) TechnicalUniversity of Vienna A-1040 Vienna, Austria Pho: +43 (1)58801x4467 Fax: +43 (1) 5058453 Email: M.Jazayeri@infosys.tuwien.ac.at Instructions for submitting papers: Papers should include a 100- to 200-word abstract and five to ten index words. Authors must follow the IEEE TSE guidelines in preparing the manuscript. For more details, please refer to "Information for Authors" in each IEEE TSE issue, or check http://www.computer.org/tse/edguide.htm. Elec- tronic submissions are encouraged. -- Articles to parallel@ctc.com (Administrative: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel