Workshop on Streaming Systems: From Web and Enterprise to Multicore
    http://people.csail.mit.edu/rabbah/conferences/08/micro/wss/

                           November 8, 2008
                           Lake Como, ITALY
 in conjunction with the 41st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium
                    on Microarchitecture (MICRO).
                  http://www.microarch.org/micro41/


This goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss the impact
of stream computing on the entire computing stack, from applications
to architectures. Stream programming and streaming systems are gaining
increasing attention because they ease the burden associated with the
design and implementation of complex, large-scale, and scalable
applications that run on parallel and distributed computing platforms.

Streaming systems in various domains may appear to address the many
challenges of delivering high-performance in contrasting ways, but in
reality there are many similarities in philosophy, engineering, and
implementation. This workshop aims to highlight the commonalities and
contrast the differences in the context of stream computing on Web and
Enterprise platforms, and stream computing on Multicores.

The workshop is a half day session and will feature invited talks from
leading researchers in the field, as well as presentations selected
from the submissions.

Call for Position Papers
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The workshop provides a venue to bring together researchers and
practitioners working on streaming systems for Web, Enterprise, and
Multicores. Position statements are solicited in areas including but
not limited to the following:

    * Real streaming scenarios and applications from Web and Enterprise
    * Streaming applications for Multicore
    * Types of parallelism exposed by streaming applications
    * Application design methodologies
    * Programming language principles and implementation
    * Opportunities for stream-aware compiler optimizations
    * Scheduling and orchestration of computation
    * Streaming runtime systems for heterogeneous architectures
    * Architectural design space for streaming

Position statements should not exceed 2 pages.

Important Dates
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    * Submission: September 8, 2008 (Monday), 5:00PM Eastern
    * Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2008 (Monday)

Submission guidelines
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Please send submissions by the deadline to streamingsystems@gmail.com. 
Include a complete list of authors, their affiliations and contact
information (e.g., address, telephone number, and email address), and
please identify the corresponding author with your submission.

Organizers
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Saman Amarasinghe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rodric Rabbah, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Xiaowei Shen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and IBM China Research