APL98 - Conference Information

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About the Event¶

The APL98 conference will take place from 27th to 31st July 1998 at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". This Faculty offers excellent conference facilities like a four hundred plus seats main conference room, several two hundred plus secondary conference rooms, computer room facilities, plenty of space both inside and outside and excellent parking facilities.

The conference is devoted to present the state of the art in the development and applications of array processing languages, with particular attention on computational environments and marketplace languages such as APL, J, Mathematica, Fortran90, Maple, Gauss, and others.

The conference topics focus on (but are not limited to):

languages and environments — state of art, future prospectives, relation among languages
computer science — human-computer interaction, object oriented programming, parallel architectures,parallelism and concurrency, networking
applications — discrete mathematics, new computing paradigms (neural nets, genetic programming), finance, economics and social science, insurance and actuarial mathematics, statistics and operational research, simulation
education — teaching APL(s), teaching with APL(s)

For more information, please contact:

Antonio Annibali, Faculty of Economy, University of L'Aquila
tel: (+39)-862-432401
fax: (+39)-862-432403
tel: [home telephone number omitted]

Paolo Di Chio, Faculty of Economy, University of L'Aquila
tel: (+39)-862-432428
fax: (+39)-862-432403
tel: [home telephone number omitted]
e-mail: [e-mail address omitted]

or send an e-mail to apl98@poeco.utovrm.it

Call for Papers¶

The landscape of computing is continually changing. New achievements bring new possibilities to the users and pose new challenges to both practitioners and theoreticians. On new frontiers of computing are such issues as distributed computing, location-independence, remote programming, interaction and smart agents.

Are APL, J and in general array processing languages (APLs) still able to live up to these challenges? Are APLers brave enough to come out of their niches and once again take their place on the leading edge of computer science? Consider how APL on its inception set the agenda for modern computing: interpretation, standard set of primitives designed for machine independence, inter process communication, parallelism, typed I/O. In the following years developers of APLs have come out with a wealth of enrichments of the original environment: full screen editors, object-oriented extensions, new control flow primitives, interfaces with other languages, environments and operating systems. The time has come to promote a new and central role for array processing languages in the new territories of end-user computing through their expressiveness, of INTERNET computing through the possibility of encapsulating data and programs, of high performance computing through their native management of parallelism.

Contributions are sought which will emphasize how array processing languages are a significant response to the new exigencies, how they allow the rapid development of significant applications both in classical and in new fields of use, how they provide adequate settings for users to develop their own applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

State of the art of APLs:
Present situation and future directions
Computer Science:
Human Computer Interaction
Object-Oriented Programming
Parallel Architectures
Parallelism and Concurrency
Distribution
Meta-level Programming
INTERNET Computing
Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and new computing paradigms:
Neural Networks
Genetic Algorithms
DNA computing
Applications:
Finance and Financial Maths
Economics and Social Sciences
Insurance and Actuarial Maths
Statistics and Operational Research
Image Processing
Simulation of physical, biological and social phenomena
Others
Education:
Teaching APLs
Teaching with APLs

Types of Contributions¶

Several types of contributions are welcome, namely:

Papers: 30/45 minutes scientific communication

Tutorials: 60/90 minutes knowledge dissemination (single or multiple sessions)

Workshops: 90 minutes technical hands-on (single or multiple sessions)

Poster/panel sessions

Birds-of-a-feather sessions

For each of them the following time schedule is provided:

Papers¶

February 7th: 1 page abstract, indicating the main topic and the subcategory of the contribution and the time requested (30/45 minutes)

February 28th: first acceptance
April 15th: first draft
May 15th: acceptance notification
June 15th: final version

Tutorials¶

March 1st: 2 pages abstract, indicating the topic/category of the tutorial, the time requested (60/90 minutes), if single or multiple session and the availability to possibly replicate the tutorial

April 15th: acceptance notification
June 15th: final version

Workshops¶

March 1st: 2 pages abstract, indicating the topic/category of the workshop, if single or multiple session, hardware and software requirements and the availability to possibly replicate the workshop

April 15th: acceptance notification
June 15th:final version

Panel-Posters¶

March 1st: 1 page abstract
May 1st: acceptance notification

Submission¶

Abstracts should be submitted on plain ASCII file and sent by e-mail (preferred), fax, or ordinary mail at the following addresses:

E-mail: [e-mail address omitted]
apl98_abstract@poeco.utovrm.it

Fax:(+39)-862-432403 (Attn. Prof. Antonio Annibali)

Ordinary mail:
Paolo Di Chio
Faculty of Economics, University of L'Aquila
Via Assergi, 6
67100 L'Aquila, Italy

Proceedings¶

Contributions will be published in the Conference Proceedings.