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Call for Delegates Communicating Process Architectures 2005 at Eindhoven
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[ CPA-2005 (WoTUG-28) Call for Delegates ]
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[ Title: Communicating Process Architectures - 2005 ]
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[ When: Sunday 18th September (late afternoon) ]
[ until Wednesday 21st September ]
[ (lunchtime / end of afternoon when joining ]
[ complimentary visit to the Philips Museum) ]
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[ Where: Technical University of Eindhoven, ]
[ Eindhoven, (The Netherlands) ]
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[ Web site: http://www.wotug.org/cpa2005/ ]
[ E-mail: cpa2005@xxxxxxxxx ]
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[ Please see the above URL for details of conference ]
[ structure, accepted papers, location, registration, ]
[ programme committee, secretary, fees, bursaries etc. ]
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[ A brief summary of the Rationale behind this meeting ]
[ is given below. ]
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[ Cost: 300 EURO (conference fee) ]
[ 110 EURO per night (hotel accommodation)* ]
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[ The conference fee covers admission to ]
[ sessions (keynotes/papers/fringes), all ]
[ meals (including the conference dinner), ]
[ the excursion and Proceedings. ]
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[ The conference hotel is the 5 star Crown ]
[ hotel <www.crownhotel.nl>, where the ]
[ evening Fringe sessions will be held. ]
[ A few double rooms, at 130 EURO per night ]
[ are also available. ]
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[ WoTUG are sponsoring a limited number of ]
[ 150 EURO bursaries for student delegates ]
[ - see the web site. ]
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[ Keynotes ]
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Ad Peeters, CEO Handshake Solutions, <http://www.handshakesolutions.com>
Title: "Handshake Technology: High Way to Low Power"
H. Peter Hofstee,
CELL Chief Scientist and CELL Synergistic Processor Chief Architect
IBM Systems and Technology Group
<http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/Cell>
Title: "Communication and synchronization in the CELL processor"
Guy Broadfoot, Lead Consultant, Verum, <http://www.verum.com>
Title: "If Concurrency in Software is so Simple, Why is it so Hard?"
Paul Stravers, Philips Research, <www.philips.com>
Homogeneous Multiprocessing for Consumer Electronics
Also there will be a paper presentation by John Jakson on his FPGA
Transputer efforts.
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[ The Rationale behind Communicating Process Architectures - 2005 ]
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At all levels of abstraction, modern computing systems are built in
terms of components and communication (or, at least, synchronisation)
between components.
Communicating systems imply concurrency but, traditionally, concurrency
has been taught and considered and experienced as an advanced and
difficult topic. The thesis underlying this conference is that that
tradition is wrong. The natural world operates through the continuous
interaction of massive numbers of autonomous agents at all levels of
granularity (sub-atomic, human, astronomic). If modern computer science
finds this hard to grasp, then perhaps it is not doing it right.
It is time for concurrency to mature into a core engineering discipline
that can be used on an everyday basis to *simplify* problem solutions,
as well as to enable them.
Communicating Process Architectures 2005 addresses these issues head on.
The goal of the conference is to stimulate discussion and ideas as to
the role concurrency will play in future generations of scaleable computer
infrastructure and applications - where scaling means the ability to ramp
up functionality (i.e. stay in control as complexity increases) as well
as physical metrics (such as performance).
This conference brings together researchers and practitioners from an
astonishing range of disciplines: theory (primarily based upon Hoare's
algebra of Communicating Sequential Processes), hardware architecture,
software architecture, hardware/software co-design (including FPGAs),
languages for concurrency (including Java, occam, Handel-C and C#),
libraries, formal verification, tools, multithreaded run-time kernels,
embedded systems, distributed systems, Internet programming and
supercomputing.
The WoTUG forum aims to continue the successful series of yearly
conferences, this one, CPA2005, being the sixth under the name
of CPA, and the 28th in the series of WoTUG conferences.
We hope you enjoy Communicating Process Architectures 2005 and your
visit to the Technical University of Eindhoven. There will be a mix
of submitted and invited papers during the day, with workshops and/or
tutorials in the evenings. Submitted papers have been refereed by the
Programme Committee - only 24 were accepted so that their presentations
take place in a single stream attended by all the delegates. The plan
is for everyone to listen and talk to each other. It is already apparent
(and will be reported at this meeting) that significant mutual benefits
can be obtained when hardware and software architects appreciate and
depend on each other. We want more of this - you can always sleep on
the journey home ...
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[ Local Conference Organizers ]
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Ir. Herman Roebbers
Philips TASS BV
P.O. Box 80060
5600 KA
Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Ir. Harold Weffers PDEng
Eindhoven University of Technology
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Stan Ackermans Institute / Software Technology
HG 6.38, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB, Eindhoven
T.: +31 40 247 4334 / F.: +31 40 247 5895
Ms. Maggy de Wert
Secretary CPA2005
Eindhoven University of Technology
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Stan Ackermans Institute / Software Technology
Tel: +31 40 247 4334
Fax: +31 40 247 5895
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[ Registration ]
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* We have reserved a limited number of hotel rooms for the conference
at the above reduced rate.
Places are available on a first come, first served basis.
Please register before August, 18.
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[ Programme Committee ]
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Prof. Peter Welch, University of Kent, UK (Chair)
Prof. Hamid Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA
Prof. Peter Clayton, Rhodes University, South Africa
Prof. Jon Kerridge, Napier University, UK
Prof. Brian O'Neill, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Prof. Chris Nevison, Colgate University, New York, USA
Prof. Patrick Nixon, University of Strathclyde, UK
Prof. Nan Schaller, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA
Prof. Dyke Stiles, Utah State University, USA
Prof. Rod Tosten, Gettysburg University, USA
Prof. Paul Tynman, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA
Prof. Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK
Dr. Alastair Allen, Aberdeen University, UK
Dr. Fred Barnes, University of Kent, UK
Dr. Richard Beton, Roke Manor Research Ltd, UK
John Markus Bjorndalen, Univerity of Tromso, Norway
Dr. Marcel Boosten, Philips Medical Systems, The Netherlands
Dr. Jan Broenink, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Dr. Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol, UK
Dr. Barry Cook, 4Links Ltd., UK
Ruth Ivimey-Cook, Stuga Ltd., UK
Dr. Ian East, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Dr. Michael Goldsmith, Formal Systems (Europe) Ltd., Oxford, UK.
Dr. Kees Goossens, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Dr. Gerald Hilderink, Enschede, The Netherlands
Christopher Jones, British Aerospace, UK
Dr. Tom Lake, InterGlossa, UK
Dr. Adrian Lawrence, Loughborough University, UK
Dr. Roger Loader, Reading, UK
Dr. Jeremy Martin, GSK Ltd., UK
Dr. Stephen Maudsley, Bristol, UK
Dr. Dennis Nicole, University of Southampton, UK
Dr. James Pascoe, Bristol, UK
Dr. Matt Baekgaard Pedersen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dr. Roger Peel, University of Surrey, UK
Herman Roebbers, Philips TASS, The Netherlands
Dr. Marc Smith, Colby College, Maine, USA
Dr. Johan Sunter, Philips Semiconductors, The Netherlands
Oyvind Teig, Autronica Fire and Security, Norway
Dr. Stephen Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Brian Vinter, University of Southern Denmark
Dr. Paul Walker, 4Links Ltd., UK
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[ Published Proceedings ]
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The Proceedings will be published by IOS Press, Netherlands
<http://www.iospress.nl> as part of their Concurrent Systems Engineering
<http://www.iospress.nl/html/cse.html> Series (ISSN 1383-7575).
We look forward to welcoming you at CPA2005 in September!
Herman/Harold/Maggy