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Occam User Group 11th Technical Meeting
Edinburgh, Monday/Tuesday 25&26 September 1989

See below for
   (1) the full PROGRAMME
   (2) contacts for registration and further information
   (3) a list of exhibitors at the exhibition accompanying the meeting.

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PROGRAMME

Monday September 25th

0830-0915      Registration

0915-0945      Opening session
0945-1015
   TROS: A real time kernel for a fault-tolerant multi-processor computer
      based on argument flow
   Eric Verhulst, R.Lauwereins, R.Cuyvers, J.Peperstraete
      (Intelligent Systems International, Belgium)
1015-1045
   Dynamicity through occam and TDS
   D.Millot, J.Vautherin (Universite Paris-Sud, France)

1045-1115      Coffee

1115-1145      Announcements/commercials
1145-1215
   A CASE tool for designing deadlock-free OCCAM programs
   W.D. Crowe, R. Hasson, P.E.D. Strain-Clark (The Open University, UK)
1215-1245
   A Deadlock Detection Tool for Occam
   Ir. Wouter Joosen (University of Leuven, Belgium)

1245-1400      Lunch

1400-1430
   Solving partial differential equations via cellular automata: a binary and
      statistical approach
   F.Desbois, A.Cosnuau, Y.Morchoisne (ONERA Centre de Calcul, France)
1430-1500
   Towards a software architecture for solid modelling systems on processor
      networks
   D.P.Mallon, N.S.Holliman, P.M.Dew, J.R.Davy and A.de Pennington
      (University of Leeds, UK)
1500-1530
   ICR: Intelligent character reader
   Koh Liang Seng, Francis Wong, Fut Suan (National University of Singapore)

1530-1600      Coffee

1600-1630
   An Irregular Distributed Simulation Problem with a Dynamic Logical
      Process Structure
   Ming Q. Xu, Stephen J. Turner, Nie Pin (University of Exeter, UK)
1630-1700
   A generally configurable multigrid implementation for
      Transputer networks
   Osama El-Giar and Tim Hopkins (University of Kent, UK)
1700-1800      Panel session/forum discussion

1930           Conference dinner


Tuesday September 26th

0900-0930
   Self-adjusting Mapping: A Heuristic Mapping Algorithm for
      Mapping Parallel Programs onto Transputer Networks
   Hong Shen and Ralph-Johan Back (Abo Akademi University, Finland)
0930-1000
   Investigation of communication patterns in occam programs
   Rosemary Candlin, Qiangyi Luo, Neil Skilling
      (University of Edinburgh, UK)
1000-1030
   System configurations for very large database problems
   Alan G.Chalmers, Derek J.Paddon (University of Bristol, UK)

1030-1100      Coffee

1100-1130
   A comparison of parallel implementations of flux corrected transport codes
   J.M.Jong and G.S.Stiles (Utah State University, USA)
1130-1200
   Simulating neural networks in distributed environments
   Jukka Vanhala and Kimmo Kaski
      (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
1200-1230      Inmos presentations

1230-1400      Lunch

1400-1430
   Attribute evaluation on a network of transputers
   Matthijs F.Kuiper, Atze Dijkstra (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
1430-1500
   An object-oriented style for the Meiko
   Matthew Chalmers (University of East Anglia, UK)
1500-1530
   C_NET  A C++ based language for distributed and real-time programming
   Jean-Marc Adamo (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France)

1530-1600      Coffee

1600-1630
   Real-time transputer models of low-level primate vision
   Andrew B.Smith and Peter H.Welch (The University of Kent, UK)
1630-1700      Closing session

1700-1900      Special Interest Group meetings

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BOOKING:

Details of this EXCITING and IMPORTANT meeting have already appeared on this
bulletinboard/newsgroup, but the essential facts are - basic cost (including
proceedings and the conference dinner, but excluding other meals and
accommodation) is a mere FIFTY POUNDS. There are places still available, but the
capacity of the meeting is limited to 250. Contacts for further information and
registration are:
   John Wexler
   Edinburgh University Computing Service
   The King's Buildings
   Edinburgh EH9 3JZ
   Great Britain
   phone: +44 31 667 1081 ext 2635 / 031 667 1081 ext 2635
   fax:   +44 31 662 4712 / 031 662 4712
   e-mail: J.Wexler@uk.ac.edinburgh (JANET)

   CEP Consultants Ltd
   26-28 Albany Street
   Edinburgh EH1 3QH
   Great Britain
   phone: +44 31 557 2478 / 031 557 2478
   fax: +44 31 557 5749 / 031 557 5749

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EXHIBITION

The meeting will, as usual, be associated with a small exhibition at which
you will be able to see -
    3L
    Apollo
    Caplin Cybernetics
    Deductive Systems
    Gemini
    Hewlett-Packard
    Inmos
    Meiko
    National Engineering Laboratory
    Parsys
    Parsytec
    Perihelion
    Quintek
    Sension
    Strand Technologies
    T2 Systems
    Transtech
    U-micro
among others