From: jim@cs.rmit.edu.au (Jim McGovern) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Call for Papers PART'99, Melbourne, 29th Nov. - 1st Dec., 1999 Date: 5 Apr 1999 22:19:28 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, RMIT Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <7ebctg$jrt$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ux6.sp.cs.cmu.edu Xref: ukc comp.parallel:15511 The 6th Annual Australasian Conference on Parallel And Real-Time Systems (PART'99) Call for Papers 29 November - 1 December 1999 Melbourne, Australia Co-sponsored by IFIP Working Group 10.3 for Concurrent Systems The Australasian Conference on Parallel and Real-Time Systems (PART) is the premier conference in this research area in the Pacific. The sixth annual event will be held in Melbourne, 29 November - 1 December, 1999. The primary aim of this conference is to bring together Australasian and International researchers, who are actively involved in research on parallel and real-time systems, and provide the opportunity for creative discussions. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and real-time systems. Topics of interest include, but will not be limited to: Parallel architectures and algorithms Parallel programming Performance analysis and modelling Mobile computing Network-based concurrent computing Object-oriented Real- time and Parallel computing Parallel I/O systems Heterogeneous computing Multimedia systems Distributed operating systems Message Passing Systems Real-time languages and tools Fault-tolerant computing Real-time aspects of distributed systems Real-time scheduling AI and neural networks in real-time control Reconfigurable Computing Real-time collaboration support Real-time aspects of database management system Parallel databases Visualisation and visual programming of parallel systems Authors should submit their manuscripts not exceeding ten (10) A4 pages and no more than 5000 words, to one of the Program Committee Co-Chairs. The authors' names, affiliation, email address, telephone and fax numbers should be on the front page. All papers will be refereed and authors will be notified of acceptance as per the dates given below. Proceedings of PART'99 are to be published by Springer Verlag. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts electronically by emailing it as an attachment in plain PostScript to the following address: part99@cs.rmit.edu.au. The authors' names, affiliation, email address, title of the paper, abstract, and subject keywords should appear in the email body as plain text. Those who are not able to make electronic submission may send a hardcopy of the paper to the Program Co-Chairs at the Address for Correspondence below. CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE Accepted papers must be presented at the conference with the presenting author registering as a delegate in order for the papers to be included in the proceedings. Manuscripts whose sole authors are full-time students, as certified by their universities, should be marked as student papers to be considered for a "Best Student Paper" award. SPECIAL SESSIONS Proposals for special sessions are solicited. Interested individuals should submit a proposal to the Program Committee Co-Chairs. TUTORIALS Monday 29th November, 1999 is reserved for tutorials. We welcome expressions of interest in presenting a half or full day tutorial related to the theme of the conference. Please send the title, a brief description (not longer than 4 pages), and a short biography of the presenters to the Program Co-Chairs at the Address for Correspondence by the date specified below. Electronic submission is preferred. Presenters of accepted tutorials need to make available the tutorial notes in time for printing. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Professor Wolfgang A. Halang (FernUniversit, Germany) will be PART'99 keynote speaker. Proessor Halang received a doctorate in mathematics from Ruhr-University Bochum in 1976, and a second one in computer science from University Dortmund in 1980. He was appointed to the Chair for Applications-Oriented Computing Science and head of the Department of Computing Science at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Since 1992 he holds the Chair for Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at FernUniversity Hagen in Germany. His research interests comprise all major areas of hard real-time systems with special emphasis on safety licensing. He is a founder and European editor-in-chief of "Real-Time Systems", member of editorial boards of 4 further journals, co-director of the 1992 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Real-Time Computing, has authored 7 books and 1 CD-ROM, has edited 11 books, has written some 230 refereed book chapters, journal publications and conference contributions, has given some 60 guest lectures, and is active in various professional organisations and technical committees as well as involved in the programme committees of some 100 conferences. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline 25th June 1999 Author Notification 30th July 1999 Camera-ready copies due 21st August 1999 Tutorial expression of interest 14th May 1999 Tutorial notes due 16th July 1999 ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE PART99 Department of Computer Science, RMIT Bundoora East, VIC 3083, Australia part99@cs.rmit.edu.au http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/PART'99 CONFERENCE LOCATION Melbourne is the second largest city in Australia known for its broad leafy streets, magnificent parks and rich architectural heritage. Melbourne plays host to many of Australia's major sporting and cultural events. The vibrant life of the city is influenced by the extraordinary mix of ethnic cultures. Visitor information is available at: http://melbourne.citysearch.com.au. Lonely planet (www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/aust/melb.htm) introduces Melbourne as "a place of contradictions and hidden charms. A leafy, bayside community on the `upside-down', brown Yarra River, it is cosmopolitan, suburban, cultivated, football crazy, conservative and a haven for the avant-garde. Visitors come for its shopping, restaurants, nightlife and sporting calendar, encouraging many Melburnians to believe that they live in one of the most civilised cities in the world....Melbourne's excellent eating opportunities have been a welcome feature in the last few decades. They range from Chinatown in the city and Richmond's Victoria St (commonly known as `Little Saigon') to the Italian fare of Carlton's Lygon St and the numerous cuisines available in Southgate in the city, Fitzroy's Brunswick St, Prahran's Chapel St, and Fitzroy and Acland Sts in St Kilda." SOCIAL EVENTS The conference dinner is planned for Tuesday, 30th November, at 7:00pm. ORGANISATION General Co-chairs: Bill Applebe (RMIT University) Swamy Kutti (Deakin University) Program Co-chairs: Wilson Cheng (RMIT University) A. S. M. Sajeev (University of Newcastle) Organizing Co-chairs: Jim McGovern (RMIT University) Peter Bertok (RMIT University) Publicity Co-chairs: George Fernandez (RMIT University) Simon Chow (Deakin University) Publication Co-chairs: Wilson Cheng (RMIT University) Jim McGovern (RMIT University) Student Coordinators: Stuart Green INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE David Abramson, Monash University, Australia Jacky Baltes, University of Auckland, New Zealand Peter Bertok, RMIT University, Australia Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Damien De Poli, Deakin University, Australia Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Hossam ElGindy, University of New South Wales, Australia Zhi Yi Fang, Jiling University, China Colin Fidge, University of Queensland, Australia Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of Southern California, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Steven S. U. Guan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ken Hawick, University of Adelaide, Australia Chris Johnson, Australian National University, Australia Swamy Kutti, Deakin University, Australia C. H. Lee, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Clement Leung, Victoria University of Technology, Australia Keqin Li, State University of New York, USA Akifumi Makinouchi, Kyushu University, Japan Jim McGovern, RMIT University, Australia Teo Yong Meng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Nikolay Mirenkov, University of Aizu, Japan Michael Oudshoorn, University of Adelaide, Australia Lalit M. Patnaik, Indian Institute of Science, India Michel Raynal, IRISA, France Tobias Ruighaver, University of Melbourne, Australia Heinz Schmidt, Monash University, Australia Hong Shen, Griffith University, Australia Behrooz Shirazi, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Chris Steketee, University of South Australia, Australia Chengzheng Sun, Griffith University, Australia Antonis Symvonis, The University of Sydney, Australia Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide, Australia Jae-Hun Yang, KAIST, Korea Ge Yu, North Eastern University, China Kang Zhang, Macquarie University, Australia Weiping Zhu, University of Queensland, Australia Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Western Australia, Australia FURTHER INFORMATION For more information please visit the PART'99 web site http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/PART'99 or contact the Organising Co-Chairs at the address for correspondence. -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel