From: Guy Blelloch Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Workshop on Parallel Algorithms: Call for Contributed Presentations Date: 17 Oct 1998 06:22:09 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Univ. -- Computer Science Dept. Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <709d2h$7ja$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ece.cmu.edu WOPA'99: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS Atlanta, Georgia, MAY 5-6, 1999 in conjunction with the ACM Federated Computing Research Conference The goal of the Workshop on Parallel Algorithms (WOPA) is to promote exchange and dissemination of information among those working in this field, as well as exposure to a broader range of relevant technologies as they keep changing. The workshop provides a venue for presenting recent research, significant contributions and new research directions. The program will include a contributed (and invited) talks. To this end, WOPA solicits the submission of proposals for contributed research talks and technical expositions in all areas of parallel algorithms, and addressing all levels of parallelism, from instruction-level parallelism to supercomputers and all kinds of multi-processors. WOPA is an informal meeting and does not publish proceedings. Submissions that overlap to some extent papers presented or submitted elsewhere are allowed. However: (1) Such an overlap and its extent must be indicated in the submission, and (2) a submission which is mainly a replication of a paper presented or submitted elsewhere is not acceptable. Examples of submissions that are encouraged include: (1) a presentation that summarizes a thesis, (2) a presentation describing themes, paradigms, principles, methods, or other perspectives that span several individual papers, and, perhaps, offer some breadth. A submission should include: (1) An abstract of 2--3 pages presenting an overview the proposed talk, and (2) appropriate informative appendices to enable technical screening. The abstract should contain a succinct description of the problems addressed, the main results obtained, and the significance of the work in the field of parallel algorithms. The appendices should provide sufficient information to allow the evaluation of the validity and quality of the proposed contributed presentation. In case of multiple authors, a contact author should be indicated. Abstracts must be submitted electronically by Friday, November 20, 1998 (5pm EST). Instructions are available at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/wopa99/cfp.html. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by Friday, January 8, 1999. WOPA'99 is part of the Third Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC). The constituent meetings of FCRC partially overlap in time to facilitate the interaction of the researchers from different fields of computer science and engineering and to expose them to a broad range of research. WOPA'99 is sponsored by the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). Workshop Home Page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/wopa99/cfp.html Program Chair: Guy Blelloch (Carnegie Mellon University) General Chair: Uzi Vishkin (University of Maryland) Advisory committee: Steering committee: R. M. Karp (U. Washington) G. Blelloch (CMU) K. Mehlhorn (Max Planck Inst.) R. Cole (NYU) M. O. Rabin (Harvard U.) J. Demmel (UC-Berkeley) V. L. Ramachandran (U. Texas) U. Vishkin (U. Maryland) J. H. Reif (Duke U.) B. Smith (Tera) L. G. Valiant (Harvard U.) -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel