CFP Special Issue J. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

[Gabriele Kotsis]

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                             Call for Papers
                        International Journal of 
              Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
                Special Issue on Software Visualisation for 
		    Parallel and Distributed Programming
                        http://www.ksi.edu/ijsk.html

                      Submission Deadline: June 1, 1998

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Developing parallel and distributed programs for high performance computers 
is much harder than developing serial programs.  Recent advance in high 
performance computing hardware and the internet has not been matched by the 
availability of effective supporting software. Consequently, software 
visualisation techniques have been increasingly used in the software tools 
that assist the development of parallel and distributed programs.

The term software visualisation refers to the graphical display of 
characteristics and behaviour of all aspects of software: design and 
analysis methods, systems, programs and algorithms. Visual programming and 
program visualisation have become important features of user-friendly and 
efficient programming tools and environments for parallel and distributed
systems. This special issue of IJSEKE aims at collecting and comparing wide 
range of software visualisation techiques and issues relating to the 
development of parallel and distributed programs. Although not limited to 
the following, manuscripts are sought from academia and industry on such 
topics as 

  * Visual programming for parallel/distributed software construction
  * Parallel performance visualisation
  * Visual debugging of parallel/distributed programs
  * Cognitive aspects of visual parallel/distributed programming 
  * Intelligent user interfaces for distributed softare development
  * Graphical formalisms for parallel and concurrent programs
  * Software visualisation tools for programming parallel and
    distributed systems
  * Knowledge-based systems supporting program visualisation and 
    performance tuning
  * Meta-tools for developing parallel/distributed visualisation software


Submission deadline:          1 June 1998  
Notification due:             1 October 1998
Tentative publication date:   April 1999 


Paper preparation guidelines can be found in any issue of the journal,
and also at http://www.ksi.edu/ijsk.html. 

Submissions should be sent by email in postscript format, or by post
with five hardcopies to either of the guest editors: 

   Kang ZHANG                    Guenter HARING  
   Department of Computing       Inst. of Applied Computer Science and 
   Macquarie University          Information Systems, University of Vienna
   Sydney, NSW 2109              Lenaugasse 2/8, A-1080 Wien
   Australia                     Austria

   Tel. +61-2-98509515           Tel. +43-1-4086366
   Fax. +61-2-98509551           Fax. +43-1-4080450
   Email: kang@mpce.mq.edu.au    Email: rodo@ani.univie.ac.at  
	
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