1995 Area Report
Parallelism and Implementation Technologies
Manuel Hermenegildo (Coordinator).
CLIP Group.
Facultad de Informatica.
Technical University of Madrid (UPM).
Area activities in 1995 continued along the lines set up in the previous
years:
- organization of the area meeting
- updating the area description information
- information gathering from centers working in computational logic
implementation and parallelism inside and outside the EU
- providing area input to the newsletter
- management of the area mailing list and WWW information
- participation in executive committee meetings
- other activities coordinated by the executive committee
A summary of the main activities/results in these areas is given
below.
Special emphasis has been put on completing the Area WWW pages, as
well as provinding input regarding the organization of the general
pages.
Plans for next year include continuation of the 1995 activities,
including the organization of the area meeting. The date/place of the
meeting has not been fixed yet but it will be either in conjunction
with PLILP'96 in Aachen (Germany), or in Madrid, earlier in the
year.
1.- WWW Area Info
WWW is becoming one of the main information exchange forums worldwide
and the network is not oblivious to this. Given that one of the
central objectives of the area is to improve information flow within
the network in matters related to the area, we have made in this
period an effort at the coordinating node towards providing some
central area pages with relatively extensive area information. This
information is intended to complement the general network info in the
central pages, by being more specific to the issues of interest in the
area. Information available at this point includes an area
description, all past area reports, and information on all past area
meetings (including on-line versions of the papers presented).
Pointers are also provided to area nodes with WWW pages (including of
course our node at UPM) as the information becomes available to us, to
the central pages, to the EU info on Compulog-net, etc. In addition,
the "compulog-parimp@dia.fi.upm.es" mailing list is of course still
being maintained. The area WWW address is
http://www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Projects/COMPULOG/compulog.html
2.- 1995 Area Meeting Report
The 1995 COMPULOG-NET Workshop and Area Meeting on Parallelism and
Implementation Technology was held in Utrecht, September 23, 1995,
immediately after LOPSTR and PLILP 1995. The meeting followed the line
of the previous two workshops in Madrid in September 1993 and
September 1994 (the latter in conjunction with PLILP/ALP'94). Papers
were invited describing work on any topic related to Implementation
Techniques, Foundations of Parallelism and Concurrency, Abstract
Machines, Compilation methods, Program Optimization, Sequential and
Parallel Execution Models, Automatic Parallelization,
Concurrent/Parallel Languages, Performance Evaluation Methodologies
and Studies, Experiences in the Implementation of Systems, etc.
The papers presented at the meeting are also
available online.
3.- Basic Area Information Update
The objective of the area is to serve as a communications vehicle for
members interested in subjects related to the implementation of
Computational Logic systems, from basic technologies to practical
issues. The transfer to and exploitation of such technology by
industry and the general application of Computational Logic are also
issues of central interest of the area. Topics include:
Implementation techniques, Foundations of parallelism and concurrency,
Abstract Machines, Compilation methods, Program Optimization, Parallel
Execution Models, Automatic Parallelization, Concurrent/Parallel
languages, Performance Evaluation methodologies and studies, etc.
Activities that are specific to the area include an annual meeting,
the "compulognet-parimp@dia.fi.upm.es"
mailing list, and a repository
of WWW information. Our main objective with these activities is to
improve information flow in the area. If you would like to to have
your node included in the official roster of the Area and the mailing
list, please simply send a message to "compulognet-parimp-request@dia.fi.upm.es"
with relevant data (email address at the minimum, but, preferably,
also WWW address, phone number, physical address, and a brief
description of your node, activities, and interests).
3.- Input to the newsletter
Area information was provided for the issues of the newsletter in this
period including area updates, area meeting report, node descriptions,
conference reports, project reports, meeting plans, recent PhD
updates, etc. The newsletter is expected to also be available on-line shortly.
webmaster@clip.dia.fi.upm.es