PPoPP 2013 - 18th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

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PPoPP-18:
18th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and
Practice of Parallel Programming

23-27 February 2013, Shenzhen, China
http://ppopp.org
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# Call for Papers

PPoPP is a forum for leading work on all aspects of parallel programming,
including foundational and theoretical aspects, techniques, languages,
compilers, runtime systems, tools, and practical experiences. In the context
of the symposium, "parallel programming" encompasses work on concurrent and
parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems,
distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). Given the rise
of parallel architectures into the consumer market (desktops, laptops, and
mobile devices), PPoPP is particularly interested in work that addresses new
parallel workloads, techniques, and tools that attempt to improve the
productivity of parallel programming, and work towards improved synergy with
such emerging architectures. Specific topics of interest include (but are not
limited to):

- Parallel programming theory and models
- Formal analysis and verification
- Parallel programming languages
- Compilers and runtime systems
- Parallel libraries
- Parallel application frameworks
- Software productivity for parallel programming
- Middleware for parallel systems
- Performance analysis, debugging and optimization
- Development, analysis, or management tools
- Parallel algorithms
- Parallel applications
- Concurrent data structures
- Synchronization and concurrency control
- Software engineering for parallel programs
- Fault tolerance for parallel systems
- Software for heterogeneous architectures
- Programming tools for parallel and heterogeneous systems
- Parallelism in non-scientific workloads: web servers, search, analytics

Papers should report on original research relevant to parallel programming,
and should contain enough background materials to make them accessible to the
entire parallel programming research community.

Papers describing experiences should indicate how they illustrate general
principles; papers about parallel programming foundations should indicate how
they relate to practice.

All submissions must be made electronically through the conference web site.
Abstracts must include contact information, the full list of authors and their
affiliations, and a description (100-400 words) of the anticipated content of
the paper. Full paper submissions must be in PDF formatted for US letter-size
paper. They must not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive) in standard ACM
two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number). Templates for
ACM format are available for Microsoft Word, and LaTeX at
http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm (use the 9 pt template).
Over-length submissions will be summarily discarded by the Program Chairs.
Submissions will be judged on correctness, relevance, originality,
significance, and clarity.

Paper submission is double-blind to reduce reviewer bias against or for
authors or institutions. Thus, the submissions cannot include author names,
institutions or hints based on references to prior work. If authors are
extending their own work, they need to reference and discuss the past work in
third person, as if they were extending someone else's research. We realize
that for some papers it will still reveal authorship, but as long as an effort
was made to follow these guidelines, the submission will not be penalized.
Authors must identify any conflicts-of-interest with PC members and external
members of the community, as defined here:
http://www.sigplan.org/review_policies.htm (ACM SIGPLAN policy).

Poster submissions must conform to the same format restrictions, but may not
exceed 2 pages in length. Paper submissions that are not accepted for regular
presentations will automatically be considered for posters; authors who do not
want their paper considered for the poster session should indicate this in
their abstract submission. Two-page summaries of posters will be included in
the conference proceedings.

The proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted papers and
posters will be required to sign the ACM copyright form. Instructions for
preparing papers for the proceedings will be emailed to authors of accepted
papers. Instructions for preparing papers for the proceedings will be emailed
to authors of accepted papers.


# Important Dates

* Abstract Submission Deadline: Aug. 10, 2012 (11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time)
* Paper Submission Deadline: Aug. 17, 2012 (11:59pm EDT, no extensions)
* Author Rebuttal Period: Oct. 22-24, 2012
* Author Notification: November 12, 2012


# General Chairs

* Alex Nicolau, UC Irvine
* Xiaowei Shen, IBM China


# Program Chairs

* Saman Amarasinghe, MIT
* Richard Vuduc, Georgia Tech


# Program Committee

* Kunal Agrawal, Washington University in St. Louis
* Chris Batten, Cornell University
* Martin Burtscher, Texas State University
* Calin Cascaval, Qualcomm
* Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University
* Yifeng Chen, Peking University
* Brian Demsky, UC Irvine
* Dave Dice, Oracle
* Isaac Gelado, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
* Phil Gibbons, Intel
* Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah
* Naga Govindaraju, Microsoft
* Govindjaran, IISc Bangalore
* Ziang Hu, Huawei
* Laxmikant Kale, UIUC
* Duane Merrill, NVIDIA
* Mayur Naik, Georgia Tech
* Ryan Newton, Indiana University
* Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast
* Jens Palsberg, UCLA
* Yoonho Park, IBM
* Vijay Reddi, UT Austin
* Michael Scott, University of Rochester
* Nathan Tallent, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
* Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University
* Peng Wu, IBM
* Binyu Zhang, Fudan University
* Rajeev Barua, University of Maryland
* Paul H.J. Kelly, Imperial College London

Please visit [ppopp.org] for the latest up-to-date information.