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WTC '95 CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Harrogate International Conference Centre, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK 4 - 6 September, 1995 The Transputer Consortium (TTC) is pleased to announce that the World Transputer Congress 1995 (WTC '95) will be held on 4 - 6 September 1995 at the Harrogate International Conference Centre, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK. WTC '95 is the leading international transputer conference and exhibition and is the third in a series sponsored by and run under the overall management of TTC. The Commission of European Communities is also sponsoring WTC '95. Each year WTC is held in conjunction with a local partner. WTC '93 was held at the Eurogress Conference Centre in Aachen, Germany, where the local partner was the German TAT (Transputer-Anwender-Treffen) conference and attracted delegates from 32 countries worldwide. WTC '94 was held in Cernobbio, Como, Italy in conjunction with the newly formed ItTUG (Italian Transputer User Group), attracting delegates from 31 countries. The local partner for WTC '95 will be WoTUG (World occam and Transputer User Group). With recent positive announcements from Inmos concerning their new T9000 transputer, WTC '95 will be the first major conference where the balance of papers will have shifted significantly towards T9000 applications. OBJECTIVES The objectives of WTC '95 are to:- * report on industrial applications of parallel systems * present 'state-of-the-art' research on all aspects of parallel computing based upon communicating process architectures; * demonstrate 'state-of-the-art' products and applications from as wide a range of fields as possible; * progress the establishment of international software and hardware standards for parallel computing systems; * provide a forum for the free exchange of ideas, criticism and information from a world audience gathered from Industry, Commerce and Academia; * promote an awareness of how transputer technologies may be applied and their advantages over other sequential and parallel processors; * establish and encourage an understanding of the new software and hardware technologies enabled by the transputer, especially the new T9000 processor and C104 packet router from INMOS, as well as communicating process architectures built around the parallel DSP engines from Texas Instruments, and new products from Intel and other manufacturers. The conference themes will include: applications (especially industrial), education and training issues, formal methods and security, performance and scalability, porting existing systems, parallelisation paradigms, tools, programming languages, support environments and standards. Applications include: embedded real-time control systems, workstations, super-computing, consumer products, artificial intelligence, databases, modelling, design, data gathering and the testing of scientific or mathematical theories. BACKGROUND The World Transputer Congress (WTC) series started in 1992 from the merger of the TRANSPUTING series of conferences, organised by the worldwide occam and Transputer User Groups, and the TRANSPUTER APPLICATIONS series of conferences, organised under the UK SERC/DTI Transputer Initiative. Both WTC '93 and WTC '94 attracted large and enthusiastic audiences from the majority of countries where transputer technology is accepted and parallel processing is seen as the key to meeting future computing demands. There is clearly a continuing, and growing, interest and commitment to this technology which will rely on the WTC series to maintain the vital information flow. It has already established itself as the leading conference in this important area. The successes of its predecessors have been a major factor in this. The continuing and vital support of TTC and the large number of User Groups from around the world will ensure a continuing success story for WTC. FORMAT The format adopted for WTC '93 and WTC '94 will be continued at WTC '95. There will be a mix of Plenary Sessions, with Keynote and Invited Speakers from around the world, and Parallel Sessions. The exact number of Parallel Streams will be dependent on the quality of papers submitted against this Call for Papers. LOCATION WTC '95 will be held at the Harrogate International Conference Centre, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK. Harrogate is now well-established throughout the world as an internatonal conference town. Harrogate is situated just 16 miles north of Leeds and is surrounded by the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. The modern complex offers unique conference and exhibition facilities providing a main conference hall, meeting rooms, exhibition halls and reception areas. Further conference facilities are immediately available in the Moat House Hotel which has direct access into the Conference Centre. ACCOMMODATION A range of hotel accommodation (2*, 3* and 4*) has been reserved for WTC '95 in Harrogate. All of these hotels are within a few minutes walking distance of the Conference Centre. Although the town has a large number of hotel rooms, early booking is still recommended. Details will be sent, as soon as they are available, to all people who register their interest in WTC '95 by returning the reply slip at the end of this announcement. GETTING THERE Harrogate has excellent air, rail and road access. There is a rail link to Manchester International Airport, and Leeds/Bradford airport is just 13 miles away. The main motorways are close at hand, and there is direct access to the comprehensive UK rail network. The approximate travelling time from Manchester Airport, for example, is 2 hours by rail and 90 minutes by road. There is a frequent rail service from London (journey time just over 2 hours) and other UK cities to Harrogate via Leeds. Fuller details will be sent as soon as they are available to those who register their interest in WTC '95. EXHIBITION An associated 3-day exhibition attracting the world's leading suppliers of transputer-based and other relevant hardware, software and application products will be held in one of the large Exhibition Halls. Companies and other organisations wishing to exhibit at the WORLD TRANSPUTER CONGRESS 1995 should contact Susan Hilton (full contact details at the end of this announcement). Opportunities will also exist for posters and demonstrations of academic achievements. CEC AWARD TTC has received an award under the CEC's Human Capital and Mobility (Euroconferences) Programme to fund young researchers to attend the Tutorial Programme, Conference and Exhibition. Financial help in the form of delegate fees, travel and accommodation costs are given to successful candidates. Those eligible to apply for an award must be either i) citizens of an EU Member State or ii) persons resident and have been working in research for at least one year in a European Community Member State. Generally, applicants should be under 35 years of age for men and 40 years of age for women, but what will be more important is that applicants be post-graduates with careers in the early stages of development. For information on CEC Awards and Application Forms please contact Pat Athawes (see below for details). CALL FOR PAPERS The conference programme will contain invited papers from established international authorities together with submitted papers. The International Programme Committee, whose members include Dr B M Cook (WoTUG), Professor D L Fielding (USA), Dr S C Hilton (TTC), Mr J Hulskamp (Australia), Dr M R Jane (TTC), Dr R Lins (Brazil), Dr K Tanno (Japan), Mr H C Webber (WoTUG) and Professor P H Welch (WoTUG), is now soliciting papers on all areas described above. Papers on industrial applications of parallel systems will be particularly welcomed. All papers will be fully refereed in their final form. Only papers of high excellence will be accepted. The proceedings of this conference will be published internationally by IOS Press and will be issued to delegates when they register at the meeting. BEST PAPER AWARD The SGS-THOMSON Award for the best paper (worth approximately #300) will be based on the refereeing scores for the submitted full paper. The Programme Committee will decide on the winner and its decision will be final. The winner will be announced and the presentation made during the Conference Banquet. REFEREEING PANEL MEMBERS The Refereeing Panel consists of invited experts from Industry and Academia, together with existing members from the joint organising user-groups based in Australia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Latin America, New Zealand, North America, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. The refereeing will be spread around the world to ensure that all points of view and expertise are properly represented and to obtain the highest standards of excellence. INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS Four copies of submitted papers (not exceeding 16 pages, single-spaced, A4 or US 'letter') must reach the Committee member on the contact list below who is closest to you by 1 March 1995. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 24 May 1995. Camera-ready copy must be delivered by 23 June 1995, to ensure inclusion in the proceedings. A submitted paper should be a draft version of the final camera-ready copy. It should contain most of the information, qualitative and quantitative, that will appear in the final paper i.e. it should not be just an extended abstract. CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS Before the World Transputer Congress 1995, we shall be holding a number of one-day tutorials on the fundamental principles underlying transputer technologies, the design paradigms for exploiting them, and workshops that will focus directly on a range of specialist themes. The tutorials will be held on 2 - 3 September 1995 in the Conference Centre. We welcome suggestions from the community of particular themes that should be chosen for these tutorials and workshops. In particular, we welcome proposals from any group that wishes to run such a tutorial or workshop. A submission should outline the aims and objectives of the tutorial, give details of the proposed programme, anticipated numbers of participants attending (minimum and maximum) and equipment (if any) needed for support. Please submit your suggestions or proposals to one of the Committee members listed below by 1 March 1995. DELIVERY AND CONTACT POINTS Dr Mike Jane, The Transputer Consortium, Informatics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK Phone: +44 235 445408; Fax: +44 235 445893; email: mrj@inf.rl.ac.uk Professor David Fielding, Chair, NATUG, Cornell Information Technologies, 502 Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA Phone: +1 607 255 9098; Fax: +1 607 255 9346 email: fielding@library.cornell.edu Dr Kuninobu Tanno, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Yamagata 992, JAPAN Phone: +81 238 22 5181; Fax: +81 238 26 2082 email: tanno@eie.yamagata-u.ac.jp Mr John Hulskamp, Department of Computer Systems Engineering, RMIT, G.P.O. Box 2476V, Melbourne, 3001 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 3 660 5310 ; Fax: +61 3 660 5340; email: jph@rmit.edu.au Dr Rafael Lins, Chair, OUG-LA, Department de Informatica, UFPE - CCEN, Cidade Universitaria, Recife - 50739 PE BRAZIL Phone: +55 81 2718430; Fax: +55 81 2710359; email: rdl@di.ufpe.br FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON WTC '95 PLEASE CONTACT: Dr Susan C Hilton Building R1 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory CHILTON, DIDCOT, OXON. OX11 0QX UK Phone: +44 235 446154 Fax: +44 235 445893 email sch@inf.rl.ac.uk FOR INFORMATION ON THE CEC AWARDS PLEASE CONTACT; Mrs Pat Athawes Building R1 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory CHILTON, DIDCOT, OXON. OX11 0QX UK Phone: +44 235 446188 Fax: +44 235 445893 email pda@inf.rl.ac.uk