CALL FOR PAPERS: IDPT 2002 Session: Generative Techniques and Architectures for Distributed Systems and Algorithms

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The Sixth Biennial World Conference on
Integrated Design & Process Technology

IDPT 2002

Doubletree Hotel, Pasadena, California

June 23-28, 2002

The 6th World Conference on Integrated Design & Process Technology (IDPT 2002) will be held in

This conference is organized by the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) and traditionally covers all topics of integrated design and process technology in software development as well as mechanical and other areas of engineering. IDPT is certainly one of the most challenging conferences combining different communities from Computer Science and Engineering. The IDPT 2002 conference will be chaired by Bernd Kraemer (Germany) and John C. Peterson (CA) and cosponsored by NASA. Program Chairs are Hartmut Ehrig (Germany) and Atila Ertas (TX).

A special session on

is being organized within this conference.

In the last years, generative techniques have already succesfully been used within a large number of software development projects. They have shown to be especially useful in applications where certain patterns of system architecture and/or implementation structures can be identified and used as possible starting points for automatically generating system parts from more abstract descriptions. This session focusses on - but is not limited to - the presentation of the development and/or use of these techniques for distributed/parallel systems and algorithms. In this field, the use of generative techniques seems to be particularly useful in order to abstract from the overall communication overhead ubiquitous in this kind of applications.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

• Synthesis and transformational technology
• Constraint-based generation techniques
• Generative techniques for distributed network systems
• Generative techniques for networked embedded real-time applications
• Self-stabilizing algorithms in distributed systems
• Scalability issues of distributed algorithms
• Software architecture and system properties for distributed applications
• Patterns and meta models
• Component-based approaches in networked embedded real-time applications
• Theorectical results in the field of distributed algorithms
• Application and Case Studies
• Tool Support for generative techniques

SUBMISSION

1. a 200-word abstract which includes title, author's full name(s), affiliations and addresses, e-mail address, fax, and telephone,
2. the full paper (of up to 10 pages),

According to the conference rules, each submitted paper will be reviewed and evaluated by the program committee based on at least three referee reports. The PC will make a decision by March 1, 2002, and the final version of the full paper is due by March 15, 2002. All accepted papers should be prepared in Microsoft Word, postscript (ps) or PDF and e-mailed as attachments to the session organizer.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Abstracts will be published in hard copy and the full papers on CD. Furthermore, competitively selected papers will be reviewed for publication in the

DEADLINES

Asuman Suenbuel & Matthias Anlauff
Kestrel Institute
3260 Hillview Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA

Email:	asu@kestrel.edu
	ma@kestrel.edu
Phone:	(+1) 650-493-6871
Fax:	(+1) 650-424-1807