Fifth International Workshop on aPpplications of declArative and object-oriented Parallel Programming (PAPP 2008) part of The International Conference on Computational Science June 23-25, 2008, Krakow, Poland

Aims and scope

Computational Science applications are more and more complex to develop and require more and more computing power. Parallel and grid computing are solutions to the increasing need for computing power. High level languages offer a high degree of abstraction which ease the development of complex systems. Moreover, being based on formal semantics, it is possible to certify the correctness of critical parts of the applications.

Algorithmic skeletons, parallel extensions of functional languages such as Haskell and ML, parallel logic and constraint programming, parallel execution of declarative programs such as SQL queries, genericity and meta-programming in object-oriented languages, etc. have produced methods and tools that improve the price/performance ratio of parallel software, and broaden the range of target applications.

The PAPP workshop focuses on practical aspects of high-level parallel programming: design, implementation and optimization of high-level programming languages, libraries, middlewares and tools (performance predictors working on high-level parallel/grid source code, visualisations of abstract behaviour, automatic hotspot detectors, high-level GRID resource managers, compilers, automatic generators, etc.), applications in all fields of computational science, benchmarks and experiments. Research on high-level grid programming is particularly relevant as well as domain specific parallel software.

The aim of all these languages and tools is to improve and ease the development of applications. Thus the Fifth PAPP workshop focuses on applications.

The PAPP workshop is aimed both at researchers involved in the development of high level approaches for parallel and grid computing and computational science researchers who are potential users of these languages and tools.

Topics

We welcome submission of original, unpublished papers in English on topics including:

• applications in all fields of high-performance computing and visualisation (using high-level tools)
• high-level models (CGM, BSP, MPM, LogP, etc.) and tools for parallel and grid computing
• high-level parallel language design, implementation and optimisation
• modular, object-oriented, functional, logic, constraint programming for parallel, distributed and grid computing systems
• algorithmic skeletons, patterns and high-level parallel libraries
• generative (e.g. template-based) programming with algorithmic skeletons, patterns and high-level parallel libraries
• benchmarks and experiments using such languages and tools

All the contributions should illustrate the proposed techniques on a significant application.

Paper submission and publication

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers will go through a rigorous reviewing process. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three referees. The accepted papers will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as part of the ICCS proceedings.

Submission must be done through the ICCS website: http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2008/papers/upload.php.
We invite you to submit a full paper of 8 pages formatted according to the rules of LNCS, describing new and original results, no later than January 20, 2008. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. An early email to papp at free.fr with your intention to submit a paper would be greatly appreciated (especially if you have doubts about the relevance of your paper).

Accepted papers

Accepted papers should be presented at the workshop. Authors will be invited to submit extended and revised versions of their papers. Accepted manuscripts will be published in a special issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience.

Important Dates

• January 20, 2008 - Full paper due
• March 1, 2008 - Notification
• March 15, 2008 - Camera-ready paper due
• September 15, 2008 - Journal version due

Programme committee

• Marco Aldinucci (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Anne Benoit (ENS Lyon, France)
• Umit V Catalyurek (The Ohio State University, USA)
• Manuel Chakravarty (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Frédéric Gava (University Paris XII Val de Marne, France)
• Alexandros Gerbessiotis (NJIT, USA)
• Clemens Grelck (University of Luebeck, Germany)
• Hideya Iwasaki (The University of Electro-communications, Japan)
• Paul H J Kelly (Imperial College London, UK)
• Christoph Kessler (Linköpings Universitet, Sweden)
• Rita Loogen (University of Marburg, Germany)
• Frédéric Loulergue (The University of Orléans, France)
• Kiminori Matsuzaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Samuel Midkiff (Purdue University, USA)
• Susanna Pelagatti (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Bruno Raffin (INRIA, France)
• Casiano Rodriguez Leon (University La Laguna, Spain)

Organizers

• Dr. Anne BENOIT
  Laboratoire d'Informatique du Parallelisme
  Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
  46 Allée d'Italie
  69364 Lyon Cedex 07 - France
• Pr. Frederic LOULERGUE
  Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans
  Université d'Orléans
  Batiment IIIA - Rue Léonard de Vinci - BP6759
  45067 Orléans Cedex 2 - France

Past PAPP Workshops

• PAPP 2007. Selected and extended papers will appear in a special issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience in 2008.
• PAPP 2006. Selected and extended papers will appear in a special issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience in 2007.
• PAPP 2005. Selected and extended papers appeared in a special issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience in September 2006.
• PAPP 2004. A special issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience devoted to PAPP 2004 appeared in December 2005 (Volume 6, Number 4, 2005).