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2013 MMnet Workshop

MMnet'13: Language and Runtime Support for Concurrent Systems

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/events/mmnet13.html

Wednesday 8th May 2013, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Call for participation ----------------------

The interaction between memory management and concurrency poses a particular challenge in exploiting modern, increasingly parallel hardware. Both language support and runtime-system support for concurrency needs to be integrated with highly optimised memory management policies in order to provide a high level programming model to the programmer. This one-day workshop aims to bring together UK academia and industry with the aim of establishing new links and enhancing existing collaboration within the framework of the UK Memory Management Network.

The UK Memory Management Network provides researchers from academia and industry with a unique opportunity to meet, to discuss challenges, state-of-the-art techniques and solutions, and to exchange ideas and experiences. MMNet'13 will take place at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, on Wednesday 8th May 2013.

Participation is welcomed from both academic and industrial sectors. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* virtual machine implementation * garbage collection algorithms * performance tuning techniques * empirical studies of dynamic behaviour * abstractions and models for memory management * runtime support for concurrency * language support for concurrency * transactional memory

As with previous workshops, the day will include a mixture of presentations and time for discussion of ongoing work and future research directions. Note that since this is an informal workshop, an MMNet presentation will not prevent publication elsewhere.

A list of previous workshops gives an indication of topics covered in this series: http://www.mm-net.org.uk/

Workshop venue --------------

When: Wednesday 8th May 2013, 10:30-17:30

Where: Room 1.82 (1st floor, near the School Office), Earl Mountbatten Buildings, School of Mathemtical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS

Registration ------------

Attendance of MMnet'13 is free thanks to sponsorship of MMnet by EPSRC. Lunch and light refreshments will be provided. However, participants must make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.

You can register for the workshop through the MMnet'13 web page.

Talk slots will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. If you would like to give a talk, please indicate this when registering for the workshop, and indicate whether you want to offer a short (15 min) or normal (30 min) slot. We will collect presentations from the workshop to form an informal online proceedings. We do not consider these to be a formal (citable) publication so that any work in progress presented here may be submitted later for formal publication.

Contact details ---------------

If you have any questions about the workshop or the MMnet network (http://www.mm-net.org.uk/) please contact:

* Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~hwloidl/) * Richard Jones, University of Kent (http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/)