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             FINAL Call for Papers (Submission December 12th 1997) for: 

                            International Symposium on 
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   Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDSE'98)
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  At the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-20)
 April 19-25, 1998 -  Kyoto International Conference Hall,  Kyoto, JAPAN

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Symposium Chairpersons
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Dr Naoshi Uchihira, Toshiba Co., Japan (uchi@ssel.toshiba.co.jp)
Prof Bernd Kraemer, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany 
Publication: Dr Stefano Russo, University of Naples, Italy
Publicity: Dr Peter Croll, University of Sheffield, UK (croll@computer.org)

Steering Committee
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Prof Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Dr Ian Gorton, CSIRO Division of Information Technology, Australia 
Dr Innes Jelly, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Prof Bernd Kraemer, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany
Dr Stefano Russo, University of Naples, Italy
Dr Naoshi Uchihira, Toshiba Co., Japan 

Program Committee
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Gul Agha             University of Illinois at Urbana        USA
Doo-Hwan Bae         KAIST                                   Korea
Arndt Bode           Techniche Universitaet Muenchen         Germany
Manfred Broy         Techniche Universitaet Muenchen         Germany
Helmar Burkhart      Universitaet Basel                      Switzerland
Shing-chi Cheung     HK University of Science & Technology   Hong Kong
Peter Croll          University of Sheffield                 UK
Karsten Decker       CSCS                                    Switzerland
Hesham El-Rewini     University of Nebraska at Omaha         USA	
Zengo Furukawa       Kyushu University                       Japan
Jean-Luc Gaudiot     University of Southern California       USA
Morven Gentleman     IIT, National Research Council          Canada  
Carlo Ghezzi         Politecnico di Milano                   Italy      
Ian Gorton           Transarc Co.                            Australia  
Innes Jelly          Sheffield Hallam University             UK
Chung-Shyan Liu	     Chung Yuan Christian University         Taiwan
Patrick Nixon        Trinity College, Dublin                 Ireland
John Potter          Microsoft Res. Inst., Macquarie Univ.   Australia
Stefano Russo        Universita' di Napoli Federico II       Italy
Doug Schmidt         Washington University                   USA
Sol Shatz            University of Illinois at Chicago       USA
Emilio Zapata        Universidad de Malaga                   Spain

OVERVIEW
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Many software applications require the use of explicit concurrent
programming techniques in order to meet their specification. 
Concurrency and distribution are needed to exploit the processing 
power of multiprocessor systems in order to achieve high performance, 
to provide fault-tolerance and reliability in safety-critical and
real-time systems,and to deal with physically distributed computing
resources. Some application areas include distributed  information
systems, client/server systems,  multimedia systems, CSCW, 
high-performance computing,  simulation,  real-time  and  process
control systems, embedded systems, manufacturing systems.

Managing parallelism and  distribution for  applications in the above
areas is a complex activity,  demanding for adequate  engineering 
methodologies and proper support tools.

Much of the work to date on the development of parallel and distributed
software has emphasized the later stages of the process: language 
issues, algorithms, machine dependent aspects eg mapping, routing, 
load balancing, have been well explored. But engineers of  these
software systems are also  faced with other problems, including:
 - identification of problem-domain and solution-domain parallelism
 - dealing with concurrency in the specification and design phases
 - validation and testing of P&D applications
 - performance prediction and evaluation 
 - dealing with systems heterogeneity

Software engineers must deal with these issues  in addition  to 
tackling the  more commonly  identified  problems which  occur in 
all software projects.

To date, many of the papers which address software engineering issues
involved in the development of these systems have appeared in journals
and conferences which are technology specific. This fragmentation has
meant that researchers and practitioners have lacked a forum for the
exploration of common issues. This symposium series on parallel and
distributed software engineering attempts to fill this gap, aiming at
providing a "one-stop" coverage of the area.

SYMPOSIUM AIMS
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The PDSE series of events provides a forum for exchange of information 
and publication of the latest technological and theoretical advances in
software engineering for parallel and distributed systems. The Symposium
will focus on the problems that are unique to the software engineer
developing parallel and distributed systems. To this end, the following
non-exhaustive list of topics will be considered:
- development methodologies 
- impact of languages (eg Java) and architectures on development
  techniques
- interoperability in open distributed applications and the impact of
  distributed objects computing technologies like CORBA, DCOM & Java RMI
- architectural concepts and design techniques for parallel and 
  distributed applications
- application of formal methods
- testing and verification
- performance modelling and prediction
- software reuse technology
- CASE environments and support tools
- object oriented techniques and design patterns
- observance of behavioural properties across abstraction levels
- practical experiences of software engineering problems encountered 
  in industrial systems 

The Symposium is the third event in the PDSE series. Previous events
were the PDSE Workshops which were co-located with ICSE-18 in Berlin, 
March 1996, and with ICSE-19 in Boston, May 1997. It will be of interest 
to both industrial and academic practitioners and researchers who have 
experience in developing software for parallel and distributed systems. 
It will also be relevant to practising software engineers who are 
interested in developing expertise in the field for research and 
development purposes.

Submission of Papers:
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Prospective authors should send four copies of a full paper (maximum 
of 5000 words) to Dr Naoshi Uchihira (address below). Electronic 
submission via the WWW will be strongly encouraged: details of this 
will be made available nearer the time, see the symposium web page:
(http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~prc/PDSE98)

All papers will be fully refereed by at least 3 reviewers. We have 
negotiate with the IEEE Computer Society to publish the proceedings 
internationally. We anticipate inviting authors of select papers 
to submit longer versions for publication in a special issue of 
an appropriate journal.


Important dates are:
Paper submission: December 12th, 1997 
Notification of acceptance: January 30th, 1998 
Camera-ready copies: February 27th, 1998

Paper submissions and further enquiries to:
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Dr Naoshi Uchihira
Systems and Software Research Laboratories
Toshiba Corporation
70, Yanagi-cho, Saisai-ku, Kawasaki 210, Japan
Email: uchi@ssel.toshiba.co.jp
Tel.: +81-44-548-5690
Fax: +81-44-520-5855

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