APL98 Conference Call for Papers
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- Subject: [mg9842] APL98 Conference Call for Papers
- From: Paolo Di Chio <mc0307 at mclink.it>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 05:35:55 -0500
- Organization: Faculty of Economy, University of L'Aquila
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ItApl, the Italian SIGAPL chapter, is announcing the 1998 Annual APL
Conference that will be held in Rome from July 27th, to July 31th, at
the Faculty of Economics of University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
The conference is devoted to present the state of the art in the
development and applications of array processing languages, with
particular attention on computational environments and marketplace
languages such as APL, J, Mathematica, Fortran90, Matlab, Gauss, and
others.
APL98 Rome
July, 27th-31st, 1998
University of Rome "Tor Vergata" - Faculty of Economics
The Array Processing Languages Conference
"New gems from old roots"
Call for Papers
The landscape of computing is continually changing. New achievements
bring new possibilities to the users and pose new challenges to both
practitioners and theoreticians.
On new frontiers of computing are such issues as distributed computing,
location-independence, remote programming, interaction and smart
agents.
Are APL, J and in general array processing languages (APLs) still able
to live up to these challenges? Are APLers brave enough to come out of
their niches and once again take their place on the leading edge of
computer
science?
Consider how APL on its inception set the agenda for modern computing:
interpretation, standard set of primitives designed for machine
independence, inter process communication, parallelism, typed I/O.
In the following years developers of APLs have come out with a wealth of
enrichments of the original environment: full screen editors,
object-oriented extensions, new control flow primitives, interfaces
with
other languages, environments and operating systems.
The time has come to promote a new and central role for array processing
languages in the new territories of end-user computing through their
expressiveness, of INTERNET computing through the possibility of
encapsulating data and programs, of high performance computing through
their native management of parallelism.
Contributions are sought which will emphasize how array processing
languages are a significant response to the new exigencies, how they
allow the rapid development of significant applications both in
classical and in new fields of use, how they provide adequate settings
for users to
develop their own applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. State of the art of APLs:
Present situation and future directions
2. Computer Science:
Human Computer Interaction, Object-Oriented Programming,
Parallel Architectures, Parallelism and Concurrency,
Distribution,
Meta-level Programming, INTERNET Computing
3. Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and new computing paradigms
(Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, DNA computing)
4. Applications:
Finance and Financial Maths
Economics and Social Sciences
Insurance and Actuarial Maths
Statistics and Operational Research
Image Processing
Simulation of physical, biological and social phenomena
Others
5. Education: Teaching APLs, Teaching with APLs
Types of contributions:
Several types of contributions are welcome, namely:
1. Papers 30/45 minutes
scientificcommunication
2. Tutorials 60/90 minutes knowledge dissemination
(single or multiple
sessions)
3. Workshops 90 minutes technical hands-on
(single or multiple
sessions)
4. Poster/panel sessions
5. Birds-of-a-feather sessions
For each of them the following time schedule is provided
----------------------------------------------------------- Papers:
January 15th 1 page abstract, indicating the
main topic and the subcategory
of the
contribution and the time requested (30/45 minutes) February 15th
first acceptance April 15th first draft
May 15th acceptance notification June
15th final version
----------------------------------------------------------- Tutorials:
March 1st 2 page abstract, indicating
the topic/category of the tutorial,
the time
requested (60/90 minutes), if single or multiple
session and the
availability to possibly replicate the tutorial April 15th
acceptance notification June 15th
final version
----------------------------------------------------------- Workshops:
March 1st 2 page abstract, indicating
the topic/category of the workshop,
if single or
multiple session, hardware and software
requirements
and the availability to possibly replicate
the workshop
April 15th acceptance notification
June 15th final version
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Panel-Posters:
March 1st 1 page description May
1st acceptance notification
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Birds-of-a-feather:
On site
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Submission:
Abstracts should be submitted on plain ASCII file and sent by e-mail
(preferred), fax, or ordinary mail at the following addresses:
----------------------------------------------------------- E-mail:
mc0307 at mclink.it
apl98_abstract at poeco.utovrm.it
---------------------------------------------------------- Fax:
(+39)-862-432403 (Attn. Prof. Antonio Annibali)
----------------------------------------------------------- Ordinary
mail:
Paolo Di Chio
Via Casetta Mattei 413,
00148 Rome, Italy
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Proceedings:
Contributions will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
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For more informations and updates on the Conference visit our web site
at
http://ibmaix.economia.utovrm.it
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