[hpc-announce] Euro-EDUPAR Workshop 2018 - Call for Papers

[Felix Wolf]

*Euro-EDUPAR Workshop 2018 - Call for Papers*

August 27, 2018
Turin, Italy
http://www.euroedupar.tu-darmstadt.de

held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2018
https://europar2018.org

*Scope and objectives*
Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) is nowadays omnipresent. It is 
in all the computational environments, from mobile devices, laptops and 
desktops to clusters, large-scale data centers and supercomputers, often 
comprising CPUs and/or coprocessors of different types (GPU, MIC, FPGA). 
It becomes now vital to train new generations of scientists and 
engineers in the use of these computational systems: parallelism-related 
topics must be incorporated in Computer Science (CS) and Computer 
Engineering (CE) programs.

In 2010 the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel 
Processing launched the Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and 
Distributed Computing, with Core Topics for Undergraduates, and in 2011 
started the workshop EduPar, dedicated to Parallel and Distributed 
Computing Education. Given the differences in education in different 
parts of the world, the Euro-EDUPAR workshop aims to analyze PDC 
Education in a European context, taking into account the structure and 
organization of European education.

In this context, the 4th European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed 
Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR) invites 
unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, 
industry, and other educational and research institutes on topics 
pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and 
Engineering curriculum as well as in Computational Science with PDC 
and/or High Performance Computing (HPC) concepts, with emphasis on 
European undergraduate teaching. The workshop especially seeks papers 
that report on experiences incorporating PDC topics into undergraduate 
core courses taken by the majority of students on a degree course. 
Methods, pedagogical approaches, tools, and techniques that have 
potential for adoption across the European teaching community are of 
particular interest.

*Topics*
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) teaching in the European space
2. Pedagogical issues in PDC, educational methods and learning mechanisms
3. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning 
environments
4. Curriculum design, models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE 
curriculum
5. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses
6. Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other 
applications learning
7. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC
8. e-Learning, e-Laboratory, online courses related to PDC
9. PDC teaching experiences at non-university levels: secondary school, 
industry, etc
Submission guidelines

*Submission*
The submissions will follow the Euro-Par guidelines, in PDF format, and 
should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be 
downloaded from the Springer Web site.
ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip

Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair).
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2018ws

The 12-page limit is comprehensive (text, figures, references). Complete 
LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. Short papers and 
work-in-progress papers can be submitted and presented at the workshop, 
but they will not be eligible for the post-conference proceedings 
published by Springer where only full papers between 10 and 12 pages 
long will be published. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 
members of the Program Committee and will be assessed according to 
impact at European level, the novelty of contributions, impact on 
broader undergraduate curriculum, relevance to the goals of the 
workshop, results and methodology.The workshop proceedings will be 
published in a LNCS Euro-Par 2018 Workshops volume after the conference. 
Only full papers between 10 and 12 pages long which were presented at 
the workshop will be included.
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**Important dates*
May 4, 2018: Paper submission deadline
June 15, 2018: Author notification
July 6, 2018: Paper due, for informal workshop proceedings
August 27, 2018: Workshop (full day)
October 2, 2018: Camera-ready paper (including LaTeX sources) deadline

*Travel support*
Authors of accepted papers may apply for travel support - typically 
granted in the form of a free registration.

*Organization*

*General Co-Chairs*
Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts, USA

*Steering Committee*
Henri E. Bal, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands
Alexey Lastovetsky, Univesity College Dublin, Ireland
Christian Lengauer, University of Passau, Germany
Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium
Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA
Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts, USA
Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Paul G. Spirakis, University of Liverpool, UK
Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia

*Program Co-Chairs*
Felix Wolf, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK

*Program Committee*
Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal
Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow PL and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA
Gennaro Cordasco, Universita' della Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Italy
Efstratios Gallopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia, Spain
Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland
Vania Marangozova-Martin, Grenoble University, France
Tomas Margalef, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Lena Oden, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Geppino Pucci, Universita' di Padova, Italy
Erven Rohou, INRIA, France
Emil Slusanschi, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Juan Tourino, University of A Coruña, Spain
Jesper Larsson Träff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia

*Sponsorship*
This workshop is supported by SPPEXA, the DFG Program 1648 Software for 
Exascale Computing.

*Contac**t*
Felix Wolf <wolf at cs.tu-darmstadt.de>
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