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********** Call for papers ************
7th Workshop on the
Theory of Transactional Memory (WTTM)
July 20, 2015
Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
co-located with the
ACM Symposium on Principles of
Distributed Computing (PODC) 2015
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The 7th Workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory (WTTM) is a forum
to foster exchanges, discussions, and disseminations among researchers
on theoretical challenges and recent achievements in the context of
concurrent computing, with an emphasis on transactional memory.
Transactional Memory (TM) aims at making parallel programming more
programmer friendly by providing an alternative synchronization
mechanism to traditional lock-based concurrency. TM research has led to
hardware TM implementations on both commodity and high performance
computing microprocessors, as well as to TM integration in mainstream
programming languages (like C, C++) and in the world's leading open
source compiler.
From a theoretical perspective, the TM abstraction raises several
challenges in the way we view synchronization as well as in the way we
implement it. A major goal of the workshop is to explore new directions
and approaches for reasoning about Transactional Memory.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Models and semantics for concurrent computing
* Safety and liveness properties
* Tradeoffs in TM and concurrent computing
* TM algorithms and architectures
* Impossibility results and lower bounds
* TM performance and parallelism
* Speculation-friendly and transaction-friendly data structures and
their algorithms
* Formal methods, semantics and verification of TM and concurrent systems
* TM for cluster, cloud, grid and high-performance computing
* Concurrent computing, synchronization, and shared memory
* Concurrent data structures and their algorithms
* Multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
The Workshop website is available at this URL:
http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~salaa/wttm2015/html/index.html
Program Committee
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* Hagit Attiya, Technion, Israel
* Panagiota Fatourou, FORTH & University of Crete, Greece (PC Co-Chair)
* Vincent Gramoli, NICTA & University of Sydney, Australia
* Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland
* Tim Harris, Oracle Labs, Cambridge, UK
* Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, US
* Maged Michael, IBM Watson Research Center, US
* Alessia Milani, LABRI & Universite Bordeaux 1, France
* Paolo Romano, University of Lisbon/INESC-ID, Portugal (PC Co-Chair)
* Eric Ruppert, York University, Canada
* Nir Shavit, MIT, US & Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Important dates
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Submission deadline: 15 May 2015 (anywhere on earth)
Acceptance notification: 1 June 2015
Workshop date: 20 July 2015
Submissions
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We solicit submissions describing research results and/or position
papers relevant to the theory of concurrent computing with an emphasis
on transactional memory.
Submissions should be written in English and in PDF format. Submissions
should include: a title, the authors' names and their affiliations, and
the contact author’s email. Each submission must not exceed four
single-column pages (excluding references) which will describe the
results. Additional necessary details may be included in an appendix
which will be read at the discretion of the program committee.
Papers are to be submitted electronically at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wttm15
The final version of the accepted papers will appear on the workshop’s
web site. These papers will be available to the participants in
electronic format during the workshop. WTTM does not publish
proceedings, so accepted papers may appear in other venues as well.
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