SIGARCH-MSG: October Digest of SIGARCH Messsages

["Mark D. Hill" <markhill@cs.wisc.edu>]

Attached is the SIGARCH mailing list digest for October
(grep sigarch-oct00):

* 2nd Workshop on Media Processors and DSPs (MP-DSP) at Micro
* CFP: Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing (WMPP)
* Reviewers needed to ACM Computing Reviews
* PDCAT 2001 CFP: Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing,
  Applications, and Techniques

--Mark Hill
SIARCH Information Director

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CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd Workshop on Media Processors and DSPs (MP-DSP)

Monterey, California, December 9 2000
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In Conjunction with the 33rd Annual International Symposium on
Microarchitecture, December 10-13, 2000
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The second Workshop on Media Processors and DSPs brings together
researchers, computer architects and engineers working in different
fields in the area of multimedia and digital signal processing. The
workshop will provide a forum for presenting and exchanging new ideas
and experience in this area. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

* Microprocessor architectures (superscalar, VLIW, multithread, vector
  machines, ...) optimized for digital signal processing, video
  processing, audio processing, vision/speech recognition and
  multimedia network co-processors.

* Compiler techniques and software optimizations for multimedia and
  DSP applications.

* ISA for multimedia processing and DSP.

* Hardware/compiler techniques for improving memory system performance
  issues related to multimedia and DSP.

* Integration of DSP/Media processors with a general-purpose host
  processor.

* 3D Graphics hardware architectures.

* Low-power design for mobile multimedia and DSP.

* Particular industrial multimedia and DSP products / solutions.

* Desktop / settop multimedia system architectures.

Submission Guidelines:


Talks will be accepted on the basis of an extended abstract of
approximately 8 double-spaced pages that describes the work, its
significance, and the current status of the research. Email your
portable PostScript or Adobe PDF paper to billms@ucla.edu by October
22. At the top of the email submission (in text) include (1) title of
paper, (2) list of authors, and (3) email and phone number of contact
author. In addition, include the contact information on the title page
of the paper. You should receive a confirmation of your submission by
the following week.

Notification of acceptance will be given by October 30 and
camera-ready papers will be due November 17. The final paper should be
no longer than 10 single-spaced pages (including figures, references,
and appendix) using 12pt font. All accepted papers will be presented
at the workshop and included in informal proceedings that will be
distributed at the workshop. In addition, accepted papers will be made
available on the workshop home page.

Important Dates:
      Papers due: October 22
      Notification of acceptance: November 13
      Final version of papers due: November 30

Co-Chairs:

Bill Mangione-Smith
 UCLA
 billms@ucla.edu =

Dr. David Baker
 BOPS Incorporated =
 db@bops.com =

Program committee: TBD

Further details will be posted on the workshop=92s home page:
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/mp-dsp

Registration will be managed through the Micro-33 Homepage:
http://www.microarch.org/micro33/index.html

Submitted by "Bill Mangione-Smith" <billms@billms.com>

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                                CALL FOR PAPERS
                  Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing (WMPP)
                   San Francisco, California, USA  April 27, 2001

In conjunction with the International Parallel & Distributed Processing
Symposium (IPDPS 2001) - April 23-27 (See http://www.ipdps.org)

Manuscripts in all areas of massively parallel processing containing original
unpublished research are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not
restricted to, the following:

  * Algorithms and models for massively parallel computation
  * SIMD and MIMD massively parallel systems case studies
  * Teraflop and petaflop system development and application experience
  * Intelligent Memories and Processing in Memory system development
    experience
  * Data parallel & associative computing
  * Scalable I/O and mass storage in support of massive parallelism
  * Case studies and performance analysis of massively parallel systems and
    applications
  * Resource management for massively parallel applications
  * Domain specific libraries and application experiences
  * Experience with use of commercial and experimental massively parallel
    systems
  * Systems software and tools for massively parallel computing

Submission Guidelines:
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Authors should submit an electronic version of their work for review to
Philip A. Wilsey, University of Cincinnati (philip.wilsey@uc.edu). All
manuscripts will be reviewed by members of the program committee.
Submissions should be a complete manuscript in postscript or PDF,
formatted 12 pages single-spaced 12 point font. Submissions must be
received by November 1, 2000. The email body should include title,
authors' full names and addresses, a FAX number, and author email
addresses. The IEEE CS Press will publish the IPDPS symposium and workshop
abstracts as a printed volume and the complete proceedings on CD-ROM.

Important Dates:
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  * Manuscripts Due: November 1, 2000
  * Notification of Acceptance: December 18, 2000
  * Final version Due: January 22, 2001

Workshop Organizers:
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Workshop General Chair: Johnnie Baker
Vice Chair: Jerry Potter
Steering Committee Chair: Ken Batcher
Program Chair: Philip Wilsey
Program Committee: To be announced.
Publicity Committee: Ray Hoare, Maher Atwah, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

WMPP Website for Further Information and Updates:
             http://www.mcs.kent.edu/~parallel/workshops/ipdps01-mpp/

Submitted by Nael Abu-Ghazaleh <nael@cs.binghamton.edu>

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Reviewers are urgently needed to write reviews of computing literature
for Computing Reviews, the Association for Computing Machinery's
review journal covering computing literature from around the world.
ACM is expanding the scope of CR in preparation for launching an
online version. At the same time, a number of long-time reviewers
have retired, and there is a critical need for people who are qualified to
review articles and books in the computing field. If you are interested in
seeing your reviews in print (and online), please go to ACM's Web application form at
http://www.acm.org/reviews. In addition, please tell any of your colleagues
you think might be interested and direct them to this URL.


Carol Wierzbicki
Executive Editor, Computing Reviews
wierzbicki@acm.org

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                The Second International Conference on
    Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications, and Techniques
                              (PDCAT 2001)

          National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
                   July 9-11, 2001, Taipei, Taiwan

Sponsors: Sinica Academia (Taiwan, ROC), ACM Taipei Chapter, IEEE Taipei
Chapter, Institute for Information Industry (Taiwan), Institute of
Information and Computing Machinery (Taiwan), Education Ministry of the
ROC
(tentative), and National Science Council of the ROC (tentative). More
sponsors may be added.

PURPOSE

The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing,
Applications, and Techniques (PDCAT) is a major forum for scientists,
engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest
research, results, ideas, development, applications, and techniques in
all
areas of parallel and distributed computing. PDCAT 2001 will be held in
Taipei, Taiwan, and will include keynote addresses, contributed papers,
tutorials, and workshops.

SCOPE

The main focus for PDCAT 2001 will be parallel and distributed computing
and
networks viewed from the three perspectives of networks and
architectures,
software systems, and algorithms and applications. Topics include, but
are
not limited to, the following:

Networks and Architectures
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* Interconnection networks
* Computer networks
* Internet computing
* Parallel/distributed architectures
* Communication and telecommunication
* Heterogeneous and multimedia Systems
* Wireless networks and mobile computing
* ATM networks
* Optical networks
* Reliability and fault-tolerance
* Security
* Cluster computing

Software Systems
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* Operating systems
* Programming languages
* Parallel programming paradigms
* Parallelizing compilers
* Distributed data and knowledge based systems
* Object-Oriented technology
* Modelling and simulation
* Performance evaluation and measurements
* Distributed agent systems
* Tools and environments for software development
* Visualization

Algorithms and Applications
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* Parallel/distributed algorithms
* Resource allocation and management
* Load sharing and balancing
* Task mapping and job scheduling
* Network routing and communication algorithms
* Neural networks
* Image processing and computer graphics
* Database applications and data mining
* High-performance scientific computing
* Biological/molecular computing

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and
experience are
solicited. The cover page of each paper should include
(1) title of the paper;
(2) full name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, phone
number, and
fax number of each author;
(3) name of the corresponding author;
(4) an abstract; and
(5) keywords, at least one of them from the list of topics.
Papers must not exceed 20 double-spaced pages, including tables and
figures.
Each page except for the cover should have a page number. Please send
your
papers in the PostScript or PDF format as an attachment to your
submission
e-mail to the program chair at yclin@et.ntust.edu.tw. The attached file
name
should be something like YourLastName.ps or, especially when your last
name
is very common, Initials_LastName.ps. If you submit more than one paper,
your
last name should be followed by a number, e.g., LastName2.ps. The e-mail
should (1) include all the information on the cover page and (2) state
that,
should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend
the
conference to present the work.

EVALUATION PROCESS

Papers will be reviewed by at least two referees and selected based on
their
significance, technical quality, originality, relevance, and clarity of
presentation. Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.

WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL SESSIONS/TUTORIALS/PANELS

Workshops/special sessions and tutorials are planned for PDCAT 2001.
Each
workshop will focus on a particular topic, and consists of several
presentations and open discussion. A one-page abstract of each workshop
presentation will be published in the conference proceedings. The
proposal
for a workshop/special session should include the title, topics covered,
proposed/invited speakers, and estimated length (hours) of the workshop.
Each
tutorial proposal should provide the title, topics, targeted audiences,
and
instructor's biography. Anyone wishing to organize a workshop, special
session, panel, or tutorial should submit a proposal by January 1, 2001
to
the general and program chairs, Hong Shen and Yen-Chun Lin.

General Chair
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Hong Shen               Griffith University (Australia)

Program Chair
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Yen-Chun Lin            National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Taiwan)

Program Vice-Chairs
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Susumu Horiguchi        Japan Advanced Inst. of Sci. & Tech. (Japan)
Feipei Lai              National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Francis Lau             University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

Program Committee
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David Abramson, Monash University (Australia)
Ralph-Johan Back, Abo Akademi University (Finland)
Gen-Huey Chen, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Guoliang Chen, Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China (China)
Hsing-Lung Chen, National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Taiwan)
Ge-Ming Chiu, National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Taiwan)
C. Edward Chow, University of Colorado at Coloardo Springs (USA)
Hossam ElGindy, University of New South Wales (Australia)
David John Evans, Nottingham Trent University (UK)
Afonso Ferreira, CNRS-INRIA (France)
Andrzej M. Goscinski, Deakin University (Australia)
Qianping Gu, The University of Aizu (Japan)
C.T. Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center (USA)
Shi-Jinn Horng, National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Taiwan)
Chiun-Chieh Hsu, National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Taiwan)
Ming-Tat Ko, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Hahn-Ming Lee, National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Taiwan)
PeiZong Lee, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Yungho Leu, National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Taiwan)
Chi-Sing Leung, University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Keqin Li, State University of New York (USA)
Shun-Shii Lin, National Taiwan Normal University (Taiwan)
Andrzej Lingas, Lund University (Sweden)
Jigang Liu, Metropolitan State University (USA)
Yuh-Dauh Lyuu, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
D. Manivannan, University of Kentucky (USA)
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University (USA)
Yi Pan, Georgia State University (USA)
Marcin Paprzycki, University of Southern Mississippi (USA)
Shietung Peng, Hosei University (Japan)
Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University (USA)
Stanislav G. Sedukhin, The University of Aizu (Japan)
Fenn-Huei Simon Sheu, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)
Jang-Ping Sheu, National Central University (Taiwan)
Ce-Kuen Shieh, National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan)
John Sum, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. (Hong Kong)
Ting-Yi Sung, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
David Taniar, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia)
Denis Trystram, LMC-IMAG (France)
Shang Rong Tsai, National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan)
Jong-Chuang Tsay, National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)
Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)
Sheng-De Wang, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Yue-Li Wang, National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Taiwan)
Yuke Wang, University of Texas at Dallas (USA)
Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University (USA)
Zhiwei Xu, Chinese Acdemy of Scicence (China)
Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales (Australia)
Yao-ming Yeh, National Taiwan Normal University (Taiwan)
S.Q. Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas (USA)
Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Western Australia (Australia)


Advisory Committee
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Francis Chin, Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Ching-Chi Hsu, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Frank Hsu, Fordham University (USA)
Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)


Local Arrangements Chair
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Yue-Li Wang, National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Taiwan)


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper and Proposal Submissions Due:                     January 1, 2001
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection:                   March 1, 2001
Camera-ready Papers Due:                                April 15, 2001

For more information or to be placed on the mailing list, please contact the
program chair.

Tourism Bureau of Taiwan: http://www.tbroc.gov.tw

Submitted by "Y.-C. Lin" <yclin@et.ntust.edu.tw>

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