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
sitehttp://ppopp18.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.gross@xxxxxxxxxxx>.
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
