CALL FOR PAPERS

New journal:


	PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING PRACTICES
	    published by NOVA Science Publishers

Editorial Board

Marcin Paprzycki, U. of S. Mississippi,	M.Paprzycki@usm.edu
(editor-in-chief)

Peter Arbenz, ETH Zurich		arbenz@inf.ethz.ch
Dorothy Bollman, U. of Puerto Rico,	bollman@rummat3.upr.clu.edu
Luigi Brugnano, U. of Florence, 	brugnno@pontedera.pisoft.it
Bogdan Czejdo, Loyola, U. (New Orl.),	czejdo@beta.loyno.edu
Frederic Desprez, INRIA ENS Lyon,	Frederic.Desprez@ens-lyon.fr
David Du, U. of Minnesota,		du@cs.umn.edu
Yakov Fet, Novosibirsk Comp. Center,	fet@comcen.nsk.su
Len Freeman, Univ. of Manchester,	freeman@ma.man.ac.uk
Ian Gladwell, Southern Methodist U.,	gladwell@seas.smu.edu
John Gustafson, Ames Laboratory,	gus@ameslab.gov
Joanna Jozefowska, TU Poznan,		joanna@rose.man.poznan.pl
Peter Kacsuk, KFKI Research Inst,	kacsuk@sunserv.kfki.hu
David Keyes, Old Dominion U.,		keyes@cs.odu.edu
Vadim Kotov, HP Laboratories,		kotov@flute.hpl.hp.com
Thomas Ludwig, TU Munchen,		ludwig@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Veljko Milutinovic, U. of Belgrade,	emilutiv@etf.bg.ac.yu
Oscar Naim, U. Wisconsin-Madison,	naim@cs.wisc.edu
Lalit M. Patnaik, Indian Inst. of Sci,	lalit@micro.iisc.ernet.in
Viktor Prasanna, USC,	 		prasanna@halcyon.usc.edu
Stewart Reddaway, Cambridge Par. Procs, sfr@cppuk.co.uk
Siang Wun Song, U. of Sao Paulo,	song@ime.usp.br
Boleslaw Szymanski, Rensellaer Poly,	szymansk@cs.rpi.edu
Alex Teruel, Univ. S. Bolivar,		teruel@usb.ve
Kenji Toda, Electrotech. Laboratory,	toda@etl.go.jp
Daniela Todorowa, U. of Russe,		daniela@ami.ru.acad.bg
Roman Trobec, Josef Stefan Institute,	Roman.Trobec@ijs.si
Carl Tropper, McGill U.,		carl@magic.cs.mcgill.ca
Pavel Tvrdik, TU Prague,		tvrdik@sun.felk.cvut.cz
Jan van Katwijk, TU Delft,		J.vanKatwijk@twi.tudelft.nl
Sankait Vahie, U. of Arizona,		sankait@ece.arizona.edu
Mladen A. Vouk, NC State U.,		vouk@csc.ncsu.edu
Lonnie Welch, UT Arlington,		welch@cse.uta.edu
Janusz Zalewski, U. of Centr. Florida,	jza@ece.engr.ucf.edu


Statement of Purpose

The area of parallel and distributed computing has reached a point where
new issues and trends require a professional forum. PDCP will provide an
avenue for publication of original refereed papers addressing these issues
and trends. The areas of primary interest involve algorithm development,
implementation and execution on real-world parallel architectures,
application of parallel and distributed computing to the solution of
real-life problems. In addition, to recognize a clearly developing trends,
which suggest that the future of computing will have a parallel and/or
distributed form, PDCP will address the cosequences of these trends in the
following areas:

Expressiveness:
      - high level languages
      - object oriented techniques
      - compiler technology for parallel computing
      - implementation techniques and their efficiency  

System engineering:
      - programming environments
      - debugging tools
      - software libraries

Performance:
      - performance measurement
	   - metrics
	   - evaluation
	   - visualization
      - performance improvement
           - resource allocation and scheduling
           - I/O
           - network throughput

Applications:
	- database
	- control systems
	- embedded systems
	- fault tolerance
	- industrial and business
	- real-time
	- scientific computing
	- visualization

Future:
      - limits of different approaches
      - extrapolations of engineering trends and their consequences
      - novel parallel architectures


Taking into account the extremely rapid pace of changes in the field, PDCP
is commited to fast turnaround and publication time.


INITIAL ISSUES

January 1998  	--  initial issue based on invited refereed papers

April 1998 	--  L. Welch (ed.) - Special Issue based on invited
		    papers - "Software Engineering in Distributed 
		    Systems"

July 1998  	--  E. Kuehn (ed.) - Special Issue based on a Minitrack
		    from the HICSS-31 conference - "Virtual Shared 
		    Memory for Distributed Architectures"

October 1998    --  standard issue based on contributed papers

In 1999 Special Issues edited by: L. Patnaik and B. Szymanski are
scheduled.


To contribute, please contact one of the members of the Editorial Board,
or:

			Marcin Paprzycki
	Department of Computer Science and Statistics
	      University of Southern Mississippi
		  Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA
		      M.Paprzycki@usm.edu

     http://www.utpb.edu/scimath/paprzyck/pdcp/pdcp.htm