Euro-EDUPAR 2015 - 1st European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR)

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES : Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) is nowadays omnipresent. It is in all the computational environments, from mobile devices, laptops and desktops to clusters of multicore nodes and supercomputers, comprising in most cases one or several coprocessors of different types (GPU, MIC, FPGA). In this context, it is vital to train new generations of scientists and engineers in the use of these computational systems, so parallelism topics must be incorporated in Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs.
In 2010 the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing launched the Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing, with Core Topics for Undergraduates, and in 2011 started the workshop EduPar, dedicated to Parallel and Distributed Computing Education. Given the differences in education in different parts of the world, the Euro-EDUPAR workshop starts with the aim of analyzing PDC Education in a European context, i.e. the structure and organization of European education.
So, the 1st European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR) invites unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, industry, and other educational and research institutes on topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Engineering curriculum as well as in Computational Science and with PDC and high performance computing (HPC) concepts, with emphasis on European undergraduate teaching, and the workshop especially seeks papers that report on experiences incorporating PDC topics into undergraduate core courses taken by the majority of students on a degree course. Methods, pedagogical approaches, tools, and techniques that have potential for adoption across the European teaching community are of particular interest.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Parallel and Distributed Computing teaching in the European space
Pedagogical issues in PDC, educational methods and learning mechanisms
Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning environments
Curriculum design, models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum
Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses
Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other applications learning
Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC
e-Learning, e-Laboratory, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), Small Private Online Courses (SPOC)
PDC experiences at non-university levels; secondary school, postgraduate, industry, diffusion of PDC
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES : The submissions will follow the Euro-Par guidelines, in PDF format, and should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site. Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair). The 12-page limit is comprehensive (text, figures, references). Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. Short papers and work-in-progress papers can be submitted and presented at the workshop, but they will not be eligible for the post-conference proceedings. Submissions will be reviewed according to impact at European level, the novelty of contributions, impact on broader undergraduate curriculum, relevance to the goals of the workshop, the results and methodology.
The workshop proceedings will be published in a LNCS workshop volume after the conference. Only long papers (10-12 pages) positively reviewed by at least 3 referees and presented at the workshop will be considered for inclusion in the workshops proceedings.