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Program -
2nd IASTED European Parallel and Distributed Systems Conference (Euro-PDS'98)


Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 11:45:15 -0600
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Subject: (SEWORLD) Euro-PDS'98

PROGRAM
Second IASTED European Parallel and Distributed Systems Conference
(Euro-PDS'98)
July 1-3, 1998 - Vienna, Austria

Sponsor
The International Association of Science and Technology for Development -
IASTED

Location
Hotel Schloss Weikersdorf
Schlossgasse 9-11
A-2500 Baden bei Wein
Austria
Tel: +43-2252-48301
Fax: +43-2252-48301150

General Chairman
Prof. M. Jazayeri, Austria

Program Co-Chairs
Prof. O. Bukhres, USA
Prof. H. El-Rewini, USA

Technical Vice-Chairs
Algorithms & Applications - Prof. A. Ghafoor, USA
Software - Prof. E. Kuehn, Austria
Architecture & Networking - Prof. E. Luque, Spain

Tutorials Chair - Prof. Y. Kambayashi, Japan

Publicity & Coordination Chairs
Europe - Prof. A. Bouabdallah, France
Americas - Prof. R. Raje, USA
Asia-Pacific - Prof. A. Bouguettaya, Australia

International Program Committee
K. Aberer, Germany
O. Abou-Rabia, Canada
I. Ahmad, Hong Kong
M. Atiqullah, USA
F. Baiardi, Italy
N. Belkhatir, France
A. Bellaachia, Morocco
B. Bentallah, Australia
A. Bertolino, Italy
E. Bertino, Italy
R. Chin, USA
C. Collet, France
S. Cook, U.K.
F. De Paoli, Italy
M. El-Sharkawi, Kuwait
I. Jelly, U.K.
P. Kacsuk, Hungary
Y. Kambayashi, Japan
J.P. Kitijama, Brazil
M. Kitsuregawa, Japan
W. Klas, Germany
G. Kotsis, Austria
M.A. Langston, USA
J.C. Machado, Brazil
J. Miguel-Alonso, Spain
Z. Ben Miled, USA
P. Muth, Germany
R. Nassif, USA
K. Nahrstedt, USA
P. Nixon, Ireland
S. Orlando, Italy
F. Plasil, Czech Republic
J. Pokorny, Czech Republic
P. Ram, USA
L. Russell, USA
S. Russo, Italy
V. Singh, USA
A. Somani, USA
P.K. Srimani, USA
Z. Tari, Australia
A. Yacine, Singapore
K. Yokota, Japan
Y.-I. Yoon, S. Korea
P.S. Yu, USA
A. Zaky, USA
A. Zomaya, Australia

JUNE 30, 1998

18:00 - 21:00 - Registration (Wappenbar)

JULY 1, 1998

08:30 - 17:30 - Registration (Wappenbar)

09:00 - 10:30 - Tutorial (Kleiner Rittersaal)
                Workflow Management
                C. Bussler

09:00 - 10:30 - Session 1 (Herrensalon)
                Parallel and Distributed Processing with Java
                Chairperson:   G. Transmuth, Austria

BeanChannel: Java Distributed Event Model
J. Kleindienst (Czech Republic)

Parallel Programming on the Internet using Mobile Agents
J.A.P. Diaz, J.M.C. Lovelle, B.L. Perez, S.I.G. Baron (Spain)

Extending Java Library Designs to Better Support Concurrency
G. Trausmuth (Austria)

11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee Break (Wappenbar)

11:30 - 12:30 - Session 2 (Herrensalon)
                Software Development Environments
                Chairperson:   G. Kotsis, Austria

REBELS: Remote Execution BasEd Load-balancing System
A. Puliafito, O. Tomarchio, G. Haring, G. Kotsis (Austria)

Modeling and Simulation of Error Recovery in Concurrent Processing Systems
S. Heubach, R. Pamula (USA)

A Concurrent Object-oriented Real-time Programming Language
R. Ramirez (Singapore)

12:30 - 14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 - Session 3 (Kleiner Rittersaal)
                Distributed Information Systems
                Chairperson:   T. Kunz, Canada

Understanding Distributed Executions through Communication Patterns
T. Kunz, M.F.H. Seuren (Canada)

Region-based Updates Propagation in Distributed Shared Memory
Z. Huang, C. Sun, A. Sattar, W.-J. Lei (Australia)

Implementing Distributed Services with Mobile Code: The Case of the
Messenger Environment
M. Muhugusa (USA)

14:00 - 15:30 - Session 4 (Herrensalon)
                Parallel Architecture I: Multithreading and Design
                Chairperson:   B. Lee, USA

Simulation Study of Multithreaded Virtual Processor
B. Lee, H. Kwak, R. Carlson, S.H. Yoon, W.J. Han (USA)

Estimating an Optimal Number of Processors and Message Vector Size for
Special Classes of Computations
W. Shang, M. Ghanta, O. Hellwig, E. Hodzic (USA)

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break (Wappenbar)

16:00 - 17:30 - Session 5 (Kleiner Rittersaal)
                Networks
                Chairperson:   S. Sahni, USA

Performance of Toroidal Deflection Networks
N. Nezu, H. Lu (USA)

Randomized Routing, Selection, and Sorting on the OTIS-Mesh
S. Rajasekaran, S. Sahni (USA)

Broadcast for Peer-to-Peer Networks
S. Basagni, I. Chlamtac (USA)

16:00 - 17:30 - Session 6 (Herrensalon)
                Parallel Architecture II: Instruction Level Parallelism and
Modules
                Chairperson:   D. Radhakrishnan, Singapore

JAViR: Exploiting Instruction Level Parallelism for JAVA Machine by using
Virtual Registers
Y. Li, S. Li, X. Wang, W. Chu (Japan)

One-Cycle Zero Offset Loads
E. Morancho, J.M. Llaberˇa, A. Oliv‚, M. Jim‚nez (Spain)

A 32-bit Multiplier Architecture using Galois Fields
D. Radhakrishnan, A.P. Preethy (Singapore)

JULY 2, 1998

09:00 - 10:30 - Keynote Address (Kleiner Rittersaal)
                Dr. Alois Ferscha
                Technical University of Vienna

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee Break (Wappenbar)

11:00 - 12:30 - Session 7 (Kleiner Rittersaal)
                Networking
                Chairperson:   K.R. Pattipati, USA

Dynamically Adaptable m-best 2D Assignment and Multi-Level Parallelization
R.L. Popp, K.R. Pattipati, Y. Bar-Shalom (USA)

Data Flow Petri Nets Scheduling
F. Lafont, J.-F. Balmat, P. Abellard (France)

A Comparison of Parallel Search-based Algorithms for Multiprocessor Scheduling
Y.-K. Kwok, I. Ahmed (Hong Kong)

11:00 - 12:30 - Session 8 (Herrensalon)
                Parallel Processing Techniques
                Chairperson:   G. Abuelrub, Jordan

Models and Programming Abstractions for Efficient Synchronization and
Communication
A.E. Doroshenko (Ukraine), A. Godlevsky, L. Hluchy (Slovakia)

Handling Interprocess Communication during Process Migration in T4
M. Maly, J. Yaghob, F. Zavoral (Czech Republic)

Embedding Quad Trees into Twisted Hypercubes
E. Abuelrub (Jordan)

12:30 - 14:00 - Conference Luncheon (Restaurant Rosenkavalier)

14:00 - 15:30 - Session 9 (Kleiner Rittersaal)
                Interconnection Networks I: Routing
                Chairperson:   K. Nahrstedt, USA

Maxmin Fair Routing in Connection-Oriented Networks
S. Chen, K. Nahrstedt (USA)

2D-dBPN: Self-routing Permutation Networks based on De Bruijn Digraphs
A. Samsudin, K.Y. Lee (USA)

A Parallel Scheduling Policy for the R-replicated Banyan based Switch
Y.C. Ouyang, H.P. Lin (Taiwan)

14:00 - 15:30 - Session 10 (Herrensalon)
                Applications                       
                Chairperson:   E. Trichina, Australia

Case Study in Systolizing Programming: Derivation of FIR Program from
Declarative Specification
E. Trichina (Australia)

Evaluation of Filtering-Overwritten-Label Method for Vector Processing of
Symbolic Data
S. Meki, Y. Kambayashi (Japan)

CORBA-based Interoperable Geographic Information Systems
H.-A. Jacobsen, A. Voisard (USA)

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break (Wappenbar)

16:00 - 17:30 - Session 11 (Kleiner Rittersaal)
                Interconnection Networks II: Performance and Analysis
                       
                Chairperson:   A. Chandra, USA

A High Performance and Reliability Adaptable Chordal Network Architecture
A. Chandra (USA)

Performance Analysis of Mobile IP extended with Routing Agents
Y. Wang, W. Chen, J.S.M. Ho (USA)

16:00 - 17:30 - Session 12 (Herrensalon)
                Parallelism
                Chairperson:   C.  Leon, Spain

Automatic Loop Parallelization in the BSP Model
R. Calinescu (U.K.)

Parallel Incremental Attribute Evaluation
J. Han, K. Lee (Korea)

Extending Processor Assignment Statements
C. Rodriguez, F. Sande, C. Leon (Spain)

JULY 3, 1998

09:00 - 10:30 - Session 13 (Kleiner Rittersaal)
                Load Balancing
                Chairperson:   D. Hensgen, USA

High-performance Airline Crew Pairing Optimization
C. Goumopoulos, P. Alefragis, E. Housos (Greece)

Determining the Accuracy Required in Resource Load Prediction to
Successfully Support Application Agility
J. Kresho, D. Hensgen, T. Kidd, G. Xie (USA)

Load Balancing on Heterogeneous Clusters using an Heuristic Index for
Machine Rating
J.L. Bosque Orero, L. Pastor (Spain)

09:00 - 10:30 - Session 14 (Herrensalon)
                Systems
                Chairperson:   F. Belkouch, France

An Easy Scheme to Construct Optimal k-Coteries
S. Azimi, A. Bouabdallah, M. Yagoubi (France)

Evaluating Self-stabilizing Quorom Systems
F. Belkouch, L. Chen, M. Bui (France)

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee Break (Wappenbar)

11:00 - 12:30 - Session 15 (Kleiner Rittersaal)
                Performance Analysis
                Chairperson:   M. Philippsen, Germany

Improving Performance in Distributed Database Systems using Speculative
Transaction Processing
P.K. Reddy, M. Kitsuregawa (Japan)

Comparison and Performance Study of Parameter-passing Semantics and
Implementations of Remote Method Invocation
K. Kono, K. Kato, T. Masuda (Japan)

Static Optimization of Distributed Tuplespace Message Communications
J.B. Fenwick Jr., L.L. Pollock (USA)

Is Java Ready for Computational Science?
M. Philippsen (Germany)

11:00 - 12:30 - Session 16 (Herrensalon)
                Algorithms
                Chairperson:   A. Youssef, USA

A Fault Tolerant Cyclic Garbage Collection Scheme
X. Ye, J. Keane (New Zealand)

Parallel Algorithms for Entropy Coding Techniques
A. Youssef (USA)

A Parallel Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Global Design Optimization
M.M. Atiqullah, F. Ahmad (USA)

12:30 - 14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 - Session 17 (Kleiner Rittersaal)
                Database Systems
                Chairperson:   A.R. Hurson, USA

Adaptive Views: Adapting to Changing Network Conditions in Optimistic
Groupware
G. Banavar, K. Miller, M. Ward (USA)

A Scheme to Maintain Global Serializability in Multidatabase Systems
V. Desai, A.R. Hurson, B. Lee (USA)

14:00 - 15:30 - Session 18 (Herrensalon)
                Algorithms
                Chairperson:   E.J. Haunschmid, Austria

An Efficient Algorithm for Multi-indexes Recurrence Relations with
Applications to Compression of Multidimensional Signals
A. Youssef (USA)

Architecture Adaptive FFT Algorithms
H. Karner, C.W. Ueberhuber (Austria)

Hierarchically Blocked Cholesky Factorization
E.J. Haunschmid, C.W. Ueberhuber (Vienna)

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break (Wappenbar)

16:00 - 17:30 - Concluding Remarks (Kleiner Rittersaal)

AUTHORS PLEASE NOTE
The registration fee for IASTED/ISMM Members is $490.00 and for non members
$550.00.   Extra page and extra paper charges are $90.00 per page. The
registration fee includes one copy of  the proceedings, refreshments during
the conference and the conference luncheon on 02 July 1998. Cheques are to
be made payable to IASTED. Visa and Mastercard are accepted.

PRESENTATION
Presentations are expected to take approximately 30 minutes with an
additional 5-minute question and answer period.

EXTRA COPIES OF THE PROCEEDINGS
Extra copies of the proceedings may be ordered separately from the
Secretariat.

SECRETARIAT
IASTED Secretariat
#80, 4500 - 16 Avenue NW
Calgary, Alberta T3B 0M6
Canada
Tel: 403-288-1195
Fax: 403-247-6851
Email: iasted@cadvision.com
URL: http://www.iasted.com

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