Communicating Process Architectures - 2002

In association with:
	The British Computer Society and The Institution of Electrical Engineers

Conference Themes and Goal

Traditionally, concurrency has been taught and considered and experienced as an advanced and difficult topic. The thesis underlying this conference is that this tradition is wrong. The natural world operates through the continuous interaction of massive numbers of autonomous agents at all levels of granularity (astronomic, human, sub-atomic). If modern computer science finds concurrency hard, then it is probably not doing it right! It is time for concurrency to mature into a simple discipline that can be used everyday to simplify the way in which we do computing, as well as enhance the performance of what we build.

Specific themes include, but are not limited to: 

• theory - getting the underlying model right (CSP, pi-calculus, channels, monitors, semaphores, BSP, barriers, buckets...);
• concurrent design patterns and tools (built upon the above);
• safety and security issues (race-hazards, deadlock, livelock, process starvation, ...);
• language issues (Java(TM), CSP libraries for Java/C/C++, occam(TM), Handel-C(TM), ...);
• system issues (lightweight multithreading kernels, lightweight external communications/interrupts, ...)
• processor issues (instruction sets for zero-cost multithreading, VLIW, multiprocessor chips, software cache control, ...)
• specialised hardware issues (link and router technologies, FPGAs, ...);
• shared-memory -v- message-passing paradigms (unification?), SMP and virtual SMP architectures;
• supercomputing from commodity components (cluster computing, internet grids, ...);
• applications: scientific (including graphics and GUIs), engineering (including embedded, real-time and safety-critical), business (including mobile and e-commerce) and home (including entertainment);
• global architectural issues (vertical integration of all the above);
• etc.

 

Conference Structure and Call for Participants

Submitted papers have been refereed by the Programme Committee. The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press as part of their Concurrent Systems Engineering series. Selected papers will be invited for further development and submission to a (CPA) Special Edition of the IEE Proceedings - Software, for journal publication in Spring 2003. 

This conference is our Jubilee - the 25th. in the series of WoTUG conferences! They have consistently proven to be a valuable meeting place for all those interested in the problems and opportunities thrown up by parallel computing and concurrency. The delegates and speakers reflect a wide spectrum of disciplines - theoreticians, software engineers, hardware engineers, tool builders and applications specialists - and we meet in a relaxed, exciting, friendly and highly productive atmosphere ... often till very late the next morning! All are very welcome.

Registration Fees

• accommodation for the nights of the 15, 16, 17 September 2002;
• all meals, starting with the evening meal on Sunday night, through to Wednesday lunch;
• conference dinner;
• one copy of the conference proceedings.

Proceedings on CD-ROM

Student Bursaries

Conference Chairs

James Pascoe and Roger Loader
Department of Computer Science 
The University of Reading 
Whiteknights 
Reading 
RG1 5JL 
UK 
Tel: +44-118-9875123 ext. 7626 
Fax: +44-118-9751994 
Email: cpa2002@wotug.org

Vaidy Sunderam
Department of Math & Computer Science 
Emory University 
Atlanta, GA 
USA 
Tel: +1-404-727-7580 

Programme Committee

• Professor Peter Welch, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. (WoTUG Chair)

• Dr. Alastair Allen, University of Aberdeen, UK.
• Professor Hamid Arabnia, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
• Richard Beton, Roke Manor Research Ltd., UK.
• Professor Jan F. Broenink, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Dr. Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol, UK.
• Professor Peter Clayton, Rhodes University, South Africa.
• Dr. Barry Cook, 4Links Ltd., UK.
• Ruth A. Ivimey-Cook, ARM Ltd., Cambridge, UK.
• Christopher Jones, British Aerospace, Warton Aerodrome, UK.
• Professor Jon Kerridge, Napier University, UK.
• Dr. Tom Lake, InterGlossa, UK.
• Dr. Adrian E. Lawrence, Loughborough University, UK.
• Dr. Roger J. Loader, The University of Reading, UK.
• Professor David May FRS, University of Bristol, UK.
• Stephen Maudsley, Esgem Ltd, UK.
• Dr. Majid Mirmehdi, University of Bristol, UK.
• Dr. Henk Muller, University of Bristol, UK.
• Professor Chris Nevison, Colgate University, New York, USA.
• Professor Patrick Nixon, University of Strathclyde, UK.
• Dr. Brian O'Neill, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
• James Pascoe, The University of Reading, UK.
• Dr. Roger Peel, University of Surrey, UK.
• Professor Nan Schaller, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA.
• Professor G. S. Stiles, Utah State University, Utah, USA.
• Professor V. S. Sunderam, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Øyvind Teig, Kongsberg Maritime Ship Systems, Trondheim, (KMSS), Norway.
• Professor Rod Tosten, Gettysburg University, USA.
• Dr. Stephen J Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
• Professor Paul Tymann, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA.
• Paul Walker, 4Links Ltd, UK.
• Dr. Hugh Webber, QuinetiQ, Malvern, UK.
• Professor Jim Woodcock, University of Kent at Cantebury, UK.

Published Proceedings

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