CFP: Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP)
Anthony Sloane
PPoPP 2018: 23rd ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium
on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
Vienna, Austria, Feb 24 -- 28, 2018
(collocated with HPCA-2018 and CGO-2018)
Full paper submission: August 25, 2017
Author response period I: October 13--17, 2017
Author response period II: November 14--17, 2017
Author Notification: December 6, 2017
Artifact Evaluation by AE committee: December 6, 2017 -- January 14, 2018
Final paper due: January 15, 2018
PPoPP is the premier forum for leading work on all aspects of parallel programming,
including theoretical foundations, techniques, languages, compilers, runtime systems,
tools, and practical experience. In the context of the symposium, "parallel programming"
encompasses work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multi-threaded,
heterogeneous, clustered, and distributed systems; grids; datacenters; clouds; and large
scale machines). Given the rise of parallel architectures in the consumer market
(desktops, laptops, and mobile devices) and data centers, PPoPP is particularly interested
in work that addresses new parallel workloads and issues that arise out of extreme-scale
applications or cloud platforms, as well as techniques and tools that improve the
productivity of parallel programming or work towards improved synergy with such emerging
architectures.
Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
+ Compilers and runtime systems for parallel and heterogeneous systems
+ Concurrent data structures
+ Development, analysis, or management tools
+ Fault tolerance for parallel systems
+ Formal analysis and verification
+ Libraries
+ Middleware for parallel systems
+ Parallel algorithms
+ Parallel applications and frameworks
+ Parallel programming languages
+ Parallel programming theory and models
+ Parallelism in non-scientific workloads: web, search, analytics, cloud
+ Performance analysis, debugging and optimization
+ Programming tools for parallel and heterogeneous systems
+ Software engineering for parallel programs
+ Software for heterogeneous architectures
+ Software productivity for parallel programming
+ Synchronization and concurrency control
Papers should report on original research relevant to parallel programming and should
contain enough background materials to make them accessible to the entire parallel
programming research community. Papers describing experience should indicate how they
illustrate general principles or lead to new insights; papers about parallel programming
foundations should indicate how they relate to practice.
PPoPP submissions will be evaluated based on their technical merit and
accessibility. Submissions should clearly motivate the importance of the problem being
addressed, compare to the existing body of work on the topic, and precisely state the
paper’s key contributions and results towards addressing the problem. Submissions should
strive to be accessible to both, broad audiences, as well as experts in the area.
Paper Submission:
All submissions are due August 25, 2018 and must be made electronically
through the conference web site and include an abstract (100--400 words), author contact
information, the full list of authors and their affiliations. Full paper submissions must
be in PDF formatted printable on A4 and US letter size paper. No extensions will be granted.
Papers should
contain a maximum of 10 pages of text or figures, NOT
INCLUDING references. There is no page limit for references and they must include the name
of all authors (not {et. al.}). Submission is double blind and authors will need to
identify any potential conflicts of interest with PC and Extended Review Committee
members, as defined here: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Review/
(ACM SIGPLAN policy). Detailed instructions for electronic submission and other important
ACM SIGPLAN Policies will be posted on the PPoPP conference web siteppopp18.sigplan.org
PPoPP'18 uses two review rounds. Authors of papers that are not considered for Round II
will be informed by October 25. All submissions that are not accepted for regular
presentations will automatically be considered for posters. Two-page summaries of posters
will be included in the conference proceedings (authors must decide by December 15 if they
want to submit a poster).
For additional information regarding paper submissions, please contact the Program Chair,
Thomas R. Gross <thomas...@inf.ethz.ch <mailto:thomas...@inf.ethz.ch>>.
Artifact evaluation has been included in recent PPoPP conferences
and will be continued in PPoPP 2018. Authors of accepted papers will
be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation
process. The Artifact Evaluation process is run by a separate committee whose task is to
assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. This submission is
voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go
through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval
printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not
obliged) to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings,
by including them as source materials in the ACM Digital Library.
AUTHORS TAKE NOTE:
The titles of all accepted papers are typically announced shortly after the
author notification date (around mid-December 2017). Note, however, that this is not
the official publication date. The official publication date is the date the proceedings
are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to one month prior to
the first day of the conference. Therefore, the official publication date, also known as
the official public dissemination date, may be as early as January 2018.
The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent
filings related to published work.
Organizing Committees
General Chair: Andreas Krall, TU Wien
Program Chair: Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich
Workshops & Tutorials Chair: Siegfried Benkner, Universität Wien