[C.CC USERS] Communicating Process Architectures 2011 - Second Call for Papers

[P.H.Welch]

Dear Concurrency.cc Members,

I'm afraid we didn't post our first call for papers for CPA 2011 to this list.

The "Communicating Process Architectures" conferences address some of the key
issues in modern computer science.  The conference themes are concurrency at
all levels of software and hardware granularity.

This is the second Call for Papers for Communicating Process Architectures 2011,
the 33rd. WoTUG conference on concurrent and parallel programming:

  Location:                     The University of Limerick, Ireland.

  Dates:                        19th. June, 2011 (Sunday evening)
				-> 22nd. June, 2011 (Wednesday lunch)

  Website:                      http://www.wotug.org/cpa2011/

  Paper submission deadline:    21st. February, 2011
  Notification of acceptance:   21st. March, 2011
  Final revised CRC due:        18th. April, 2011
  Author registration:          18th. April, 2011

  Co-located events:            FM 2011: the 17th. International Symposium
				  on Formal Methods
				http://www.lero.ie/fm2011

				SEW-34: the 34h. Annual IEEE Software
				  Engineering Workshop
				http://www.seworkshop.org/SEW-34/Home.html

  Enquiries:                    cpa2011 at wotug.org

The submission deadline is just 3 weeks away!  Term has started again ...  but
there is still time to put something good together for CPA 2011.  Please check
out the conference themes on the CPA 2011 website - there should be much there
of interest to members of this list (e.g. on education, robotics and embedded
applications).  Please consider submitting a paper.

The information below is taken from the first call for papers and gives general
information about CPA conferences.  If you've not attended before, ask someone
who has (there are many subscribed to this list) about their quality and feeling.
If you are not able this year to make a submission, please consider attending
anyway.  Many of those responsible for concurrency.cc, the Transterpreter and
occam-pi will be present and willing to argue - and there will be many users.

Thank you for your time in reading this far!  I hope to meet many of you in
Limerick in June, :).

Many thanks,

Peter Welch.


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Traditionally, concurrency has been experienced - and taught - as an advanced
and difficult topic.  A thesis underlying this conference is that this
tradition is wrong and that concurrency is (or should be) our friend.

The commercial reality of multicore processors means that concurrency issues
can no longer be ducked if applications are going to be able to exploit more
than an ever-diminishing fraction of their power.  This is a mean, but very
forceful, reason to take this subject seriously.

But we should not be fearful. Concurrency does not need be motivated and
employed only for performance - concurrency is our friend and too important
to ignore.

CPA 2011 comprises main conference presentations and debates over two and
a half days (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning) plus two Fringe sessions
(Sunday and Tuesday evenings).  There will be a Conference Banquet on Monday
evening.

The main conference papers will be refereed by an international panel
of academics and industrialists, with extensive feedback given to all
submitting authors.  The conference runs in a single stream, so there is
only space to accept around 25 half-hour presentations.  Accepted papers
will be printed in the CPA 2011 Proceedings, published by IOS Press
(Amsterdam) in their Concurrent Systems Engineering Series.

The Fringe sessions are to show off new products (for which papers are not
yet ready), to try out more speculative ideas to an interested and
knowledgeable audience and to report very recent work.  Abstracts of Fringe
presentations may be submitted for consideration at any time.

Registration for CPA 2011 (and all co-located events) will be managed though
the IEEE (details to be announced).  All accommodation (on campus) and meals
will be included in the CPA registration fee (which we hope to keep lower
than the fee for CPA 2009).

There is a poster to advertise CPA 2011.  Please download from the website:

  http://www.wotug.org/cpa2011/

and print and display prominently, :).

We're still not able to price the attendance fee, but remain hopeful it will be
less than the fee for CPA 2009.  The facilities at Limerick look excellent.

A lot has been happening since our last meeting at CPA 2009.  It's time to get
together and talk.  We have a great opportunity at Limerick to present good
things to the world.  Please submit lots of excellent papers and we look
forward to seeing you in Limerick in June, 2011!  :)

For convenience, these direct URLs may be useful:

  Conference themes:      http://www.wotug.org/cpa2011/index.shtml#theme
  Call for papers:        http://www.wotug.org/cpa2011/call.shtml
  Submission details:     http://www.wotug.org/cpa2011/authors.shtml
  Student bursaries:      http://www.wotug.org/cpa2011/registration.shtml

  Previous CPA conferences:    http://www.wotug.org/conference.shtml