Second International Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering

May 18, 2009, Vancouver, Canada

http://www.multicore-systems.org/iwmse2009

co-located with the 31st International Conference on
Software Engineering, May 16-24, 2009


Aims and Scope
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With the emergence of multicore computers, software engineers face
the challenge of parallelizing performance-critical applications of
all sorts. Compared to sequential applications, our repertoire of
tools and methods for cost-effectively developing reliable, fault
tolerant, robust parallel applications is spotty. The purpose of this
workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with
diverse backgrounds in order to advance the state of the art in
software engineering for multi/manycore parallel applications.

The workshop is aimed at making parallelism available to a wide
range of applications using systematic software engineering
methodology. We seek a broad variety of work that furthers the
knowledge and understanding of the software engineering and parallel
systems communities as a whole, continues a significant research
dialog, or pushes the architectural boundaries of multicore software.
We solicit original, previously unpublished papers of current or
work-in-progress research. Specific topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:

* Parallel patterns
* Frameworks and libraries for multicore software
* Parallel software architectures
* Modeling techniques for multicore software
* Software components and composition
* Programming languages/models for multicore software
* Compilers for parallelism
* Testing and debugging parallel applications
* Parallel algorithms and data structures
* Software reengineering for parallelism
* Transactional Memory
* Autotuning
* Operating system support, scheduling
* Visualization tools
* Development environments for multicore software
* Process models for multicore software development
* Experience reports from research or industrial projects
* Fault tolerance techniques
* Execution monitoring with multicores


Keynote Speaker
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Burton J. Smith, Technical Fellow, Microsoft


Important dates
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* Submission deadline: January 26, 2009
* Acceptance notification: February 5, 2009
* Camera-ready version: February 16, 2009
* Workshop: May 18, 2009


Submission
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Please consult the workshop Web site
http://www.multicore-systems.org/iwmse2009


Workshop Organizers
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* Adam Porter, University of Maryland, USA
* Larry Votta, Brincos Inc., USA
* Victor Pankratius, University of Karlsruhe, Germany


Program Committee
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* Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai (Intel, USA)
* Andrew Begel (Microsoft Inc., USA)
* Danny Dig (University of Illinois UC, USA)
* Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (University of Illinois UC, USA)
* Asif Naseem (GoAhead Inc., USA)
* Victor Pankratius (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Michael Philippsen (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)
* Adam Porter (University of Maryland, USA)
* Rodric Rabbah (IBM Watson / MIT, USA)
* Nir Shavit (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
* Burton J. Smith (Microsoft Inc., USA)
* Walter F. Tichy (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Christopher Vick (Sun Microsystems Inc., USA)
* Lawrence Votta (Brincos Inc., USA)