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CPA2005From September 18 until September 21, 2005, the upcoming CPA2005 conference will be hosted by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It will take place in the university's Auditorium.
Conference ThemeCommunicating Process Architectures addresses many of the key issues in modern computer science and practice. In broad terms, the conference themes will concern concurrency - at all levels of software and hardware granularity. The goal of the conference is to stimulate discussion and ideas as to the role concurrency will play in the future generation of scalable computer infrastructure and applications - where scaling means the ability to ramp up functionality (i.e. stay in control as complexity increases) as well as physical metrics (such as performance).
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, by means of a process-oriented approach to system
abstraction and design, in which concurrency is natural and normal. Concurrency is all too often neglected in
the engineering of software and a premise underlying this conference is that it
should not be neglected in either tuition or use, and need not be difficult,
given the right model. Concurrency forms a vital part of the natural
abstraction of the world around us, where autonomous agents continually
interact at all levels of granularity. It is simply too important to ignore. The WoTUG forum aims to continue the successful series of yearly conferences, this one, the CPA 2005, being the sixth under the name of CPA, and the 28th in the series of WoTUG conferences. The aim of the conference is to stimulate ideas and discussions relevant to the engineering of such systems, and in particular to the achievement of scalability (in both function and performance) and integrity (reliability, dependability, and security against error). Security (against error) in concurrent systems is a major element in the conference theme for two reasons. First, concurrency introduces the possibility of new kinds of pathological behaviour, such as deadlock, which must be excluded. Second, applications have become more commonly distributed and highly interactive, but also more intolerant of error. The development of new methods, or adaptation of old methods, for the engineering of such systems thus forms another important focus. EnquiriesPlease send any queries to cpa2005@wotug.org. Important News
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