PLACES 2012 - Fifth Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES)

Fifth Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES)

Applications on the web today are built using numerous interacting services; soon off-the-shelf CPUs will host thousands of cores, and sensor networks will be composed from a large number of processing units. Many normal applications will soon need to make effective use of thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems will be inherently concurrent and communication-centred.

PLACES aims to offer a forum where researchers from different fields exchange new ideas on one of the central challenges for programming in the near future, the development of programming methodologies and infrastructures where concurrency and distribution are the norm rather than a marginal concern.