Annual Conference: Communicating Process Architectures
Communicating Process Architectures 2018,
the 40th. WoTUG conference on concurrent and parallel systems, takes place from
Sunday August 19th. to Wednesday August 22nd. 2018 and is hosted by
Professor Dr. Rainer Spallek,
Chair of
VLSI Design, Diagnostics and Architecture
at the Faculty of Computer Science,
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
The conference is organised by Dr. Spallek in collboration with Oliver Knodel and Uwe Mielke
and in partnership with WoTUG.
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.
Visual Process-Oriented Programming for Robotics
By Jonathan Simpson, Christian L. Jacobsen
When teaching concurrency, using a process-oriented language,
it is often introduced through a visual representation of programs
in the form of process network diagrams. These diagrams allow
the design of and abstract reasoning about programs, consisting of
concurrently executing communicating processes, without needing any
syntactic knowledge of the eventual implementation language. Process
network diagrams are usually drawn on paper or with general-purpose
diagramming software, meaning the program must be implemented as
syntactically correct program code before it can be run.
This paper presents POPed, an introductory parallel
programming tool leveraging process network diagrams as a visual
language for the creation of process-oriented programs. Using only
visual layout and connection of pre-created components, the user
can explore process orientation without knowledge of the underlying
programming language, enabling a processes first approach to
parallel programming. POPed has been targeted specifically at basic
robotic control, to provide a context in which introductory parallel
programming can be naturally motivated.
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