[ieeetcsc-discuss] CFP: HPDC workshop on service-oriented computing performance

[Kenneth Chiu]

Hello all,

The deadline is approaching, but a 6-8 page paper would be fine,
and there would be time to revise the final version.  The papers
will be published by IEEE, and we are planning a journal special
issue.  Thank you.

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

          Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing Performance:
                    Aspects, Issues, and Approaches

              http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~kchiu/socp07/

                        Monterey Bay, California
                             June 26, 2007

                     In conjunction with HPDC 2007
                      http://www.isi.edu/hpdc2007/

Service-oriented computing (SOC) is an emerging paradigm that is
changing the way systems are designed, architected, deployed, and
used.  SOC decomposes computation into a set of loosely-coupled,
abstract services, and emphasizes document-centric interactions
through the exchange of messages.  Services can be composed, nested,
and orchestrated into a variety of control patterns and workflows.
SOC has seen adoption in areas such scientific computing, Grid
computing, and business computing, and can facilitate wide-scale
application integration within and across organizational boundaries.

SOC's loosely-coupled, document-centricity, and high degrees of
encapsulation and self-description challenge performance in a number
of aspects.  New techniques of performance analysis, modeling, and
prediction can address some of these challenges, but further research
is still needed.  Different programming paradigms, design
methodologies, or programming language principles also may reduce or
eliminate some of the abstraction, encapsulation, and composition
costs of SOC.  Multicore chips and cluster-wide parallelism also offer
interesting avenues for improving and investigating SOC performance.
Advanced processing techniques or encodings for languages such as XML
also may play a role.

We invite innovative papers on any aspect of performance and SOC from
all communities, such as the WWW community, the programming languages
community, and the Grid community.  We welcome different types of
papers, including experimental, works-in-progress, and position
papers.  By bringing together different communities, perspectives, and
approaches, this workshop will seek to focus and clarify the
state-of-the-art, leading to cross-fertilization.  Topics include, but
are not limited to:

     * Distributed, multicore, and parallel processing and protocols
       (execution models, architectures, properties, performance
       evaluation)

     * Alternative XML representations and encodings, such as
       "binary" XML

     * Code generation, incremental, lazy, and streaming techniques
       for improving the performance of SOC at all levels of the
       services stack

     * Programming language and compiler techniques such type-based
       optimizations, static analysis, and transformations

     * Hardware acceleration techniques for SOC such as
       reconfigurable computing and hybrid computing

     * Reducing encapsulation, abstraction, orchestration, and
       composition costs of SOC

     * Performance analysis, modeling, and prediction as it relates
       to SOC

     * Security and performance

Paper Submission
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Papers of up to 8 pages should be submitted electronically at
https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/hpdc/, and should use IEEE 8 1/2
x 11 CS format.  Appropriate style files can be found in
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip.
Proceedings will be published by the IEEE CS Press, USA and will be
made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. A journal
special issue is also being planned, and details will be announced
shortly.

Important Dates
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Abstract Submission: February 28, 2007
Paper Submission: March 7, 2007
Author notification: March 19, 2007
Final Manuscripts: April 13th, 2007

Organizers
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Kenneth Chiu (kchiu at cs.binghamton.edu), SUNY Binghamton
Shigeru Chiba (chiba at is.titech.ac.jp), Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dennis Gannon (gannon at cs.indiana.edu), Indiana University
Lionel Villard (villard at us.ibm.com), IBM Research

Program Committee (still being formed)
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Michiaki Tatsubori, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia