SEPS 2014 - First Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel Systems (SEPS)

The First Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel Systems (SEPS) co-located with SPLASH 2014.
The increased complexity of parallel applications on modern parallel platforms (e.g. multicore/manycore, distributed or hybrid) requires more insight into development processes, and necessitates the use of advanced methods and techniques supporting developers in creating parallel applications or parallelizing and reengineering sequential legacy applications. We aim to advance the state of the art in different phases of parallel software development, covering software engineering aspects such as requirements engineering and software specification; design and implementation; program analysis, profiling and tuning; testing and debugging.
Goals
The goal of the workshop is to present a stimulating environment where topics relevant to parallel software engineering can be discussed by members of the SPLASH community and software and languages researchers. The intention of the workshop is to initiate collaborations focused on solving challenges introduced by ongoing research in the parallel programming field. Through Q&A sessions, presenters have the opportunity to receive feedback and opinions of other domain experts as well as to discuss obstacles and promising approaches in current research. Both authors and attendees can discover new ideas and directions to solve software engineering issues related to parallel programming.
Call for Papers
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Process models for parallel software development
Requirement engineering of parallel software
Design and build of parallel programs
Parallel design patterns
Parallel software architectures
Modeling techniques for parallel software
Parallel programming models and paradigms
Profiling and program analysis
Dynamic and static analysis
Refactoring and reengineering for parallelism
Performance tuning and auto-tuning
Testing and debugging of parallel applications
Tools and environments for parallel software development
Case studies and experience reports