[TYPES/announce] DAMP 2012: Call for Papers

[Umut Acar]

Dear Colleague,

The DAMP 2012 deadline is approaching.  We are looking forward to your
papers.

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                               DAMP 2012: Call for Papers

            Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming
                         Philadelphia, PA
                    (colocated with POPL 2012)

                        January 28, 2012

              http://www.mpi-sws.org/~umut/damp2012/


** IMPORTANT: This year DAMP makes a significant change to the
workshop organization. There will be two distinct submission
categories: long papers (with a published proceedings as before) and
4-page short papers on unfinished work, position statements, etc.
Short papers will not be published but will be made available to
workshop attendees.  The aim is to enable researchers to obtain
valuable feedback about ongoing work and to create a lively
atmosphere for discussion.

** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 22, 2011

The advent of multicore architectures has profoundly increased the
importance of research in parallel computing. Multicore architectures,
now commonplace throughout the market, introduce several new
dimensions of variability in both performance guarantees and
architectural contracts, such as the memory model, while making it
highly attractive and even necessary to develop novel programming
languages, models, and paradigms for taking advantage of the benefits
of parallelism.

Programs written in declarative languages, which control the use of
side effects, can greatly simplify development of parallel programs by
eliminating or limiting data races.  Such languages include purely
functional languages, (constraint-) logic programming languages, many
data-driven or reactive languages, and other domain specific languages
(e.g., MapReduce).

DAMP 2012 is the seventh in a series of one-day workshops seeking to
explore ideas in declarative programming language design that will
greatly simplify programming for multicore architectures, and more
generally for tightly coupled parallel architectures.  Starting this
year, we welcome papers on a diverse set of topics ranging from
language design to applications and practical experience.  To foster
discussion and enable exchange of ideas between different communities,
we will accept both short and long papers.  Short papers aim to
provide an opportunity to receive feedback on incomplete, ongoing, or
even failed work. We welcome reports of successes as well as failures.

Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

 * language and compiler design and implementation

 * run-time systems for supporting parallelism (e.g., garbage
  collection, scheduling)

 * parallel applications and practical experience

 * architectural support for parallel languages

 * type systems and analysis for accurately detecting dependencies,
  aliasing, side effects, and impure features

 * languages for the description of data placement and distribution

 * technology for debugging parallel programs

 * design and implementation of domain-specific declarative languages
  for multicore programming

** SUBMISSIONS

 We welcome both short and long communications.  Long papers should
 not exceed 10 pages in ACM SIGPLAN conference format. Short papers
 should not exceed 4 pages, and may present work-in-progress,
 position statements on the state of the art, describe applications
 of existing systems, or just present proposals for discussion at the
 workshop.  Somewhat unconventionally, we would like to welcome all
 researchers to consider submitting papers not just on their
 successful results, but also on their failed attempts with an
 emphasis on the reasons for failure and what lessons can be learned
 from them.

 Both long and short communications will be refereed.  Long
 communications will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Short
 communications will be made available informally at the DAMP web
 site but will not be published.

 Electronic submission can be made at:

 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=damp2012

 Papers to be published in the ACM Digital Library must adhere to the
 SIGPLAN Republication Policy:
 http://www.sigplan.org/republicationpolicy.htm

 Namely, concurrent submissions to other conferences, workshops,
 journals, or similar forums of publication are not allowed.

 Additional information  about the submission process can be found
 at the conference web site.

** IMPORTANT DATES
 Paper submission:        Oct. 22
 Notification to authors:  Nov. 12
 Camera ready:               Nov. 22


** COMMITTEES

* General Chair:
  Umut Acar                 Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems,
Germany

* Program Chair:
  Vitor Santos Costa        University of Porto

* Program Committee:
  Umut Acar                             Max-Planck Institute for Software
Systems, Germany
  Guy Blelloch                         Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Maria Garcia de la Banda   Monash University, Australia
  Manuel Carro                        IMDEA Software Institute and UPM,
Spain
  Kevin Hammond                  University of St Andrews, UK
  Leaf Petersen                       Intel Corporation, USA
  Enrico Pontelli                     State University of New Mexico (USA)
  Christian Schulte                 KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
(Sweden)
  Mary Sheeran,                     Chalmers Univ of Technology
  Ashwin Srinivasan              South Asian Univ, India
  Terry Swift               Centria and John Hopkins, USA
  Lukasz Ziarek             Purdue University, USA

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-- Umut
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