The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in programming languages, systems, and hardware to support transactions, speculation, and related alternatives to classical lock-based concurrency. In the last year alone, significant progress has been made toward integrating transactional memory support into mainstream programming languages, like C++ and Scala, and hardware transactional memory support has been announced for a next-generation microprocessor.
This workshop, the seventh in its series, will provide a forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of transactional computing. The scope of the workshop is intentionally broad, with the goal of encouraging interaction across the languages, architecture, systems, database, and theory communities. Papers may address implementation techniques, foundational results, applications and workloads, or experience with working systems. Environments of interest include the full range from multithreaded or multicore processors to high-end parallel computing.
- Run-time systems
- Hardware support
- Memory models
- Language mechanisms and semantics
- Formal verification
- Speculative concurrency
- Conflict detection and contention management
- Debugging and tools
- Static analysis and compiler optimizations
- Checkpointing and failure atomicity
- Persistence and I/O
- Nesting and exceptions
- Applications, workloads, and test suites
- Experience reports
Please use this link to access the submission website.
Papers must be submitted in PDF, and be no more than 7 pages in standard two-column SIGPLAN conference format, excluding bibliography (but including all figures, appendices, etc.). Submissions must be made through the on-line submission site. Final papers will be available to participants electronically at the meeting, but to facilitate resubmission to more formal venues, no archival proceedings will be published, and papers will not be sent to the ACM Digital Library.
Authors will have the option of having their final paper accessible from the workshop website. Authors must be familiar with and abide by SIGPLAN's republication policy, which forbids simultaneous submission to multiple venues and requires disclosing prior publication of closely related work.
At the discretion of the program committee and with the consent of the authors, particularly worthy papers may be recommended for a special journal issue.
- Submission Deadline: December 1, 2011 December 8, 2012 (Final Extension)
- Author Notification: January 20, 2012
- Final Copy Due: February 12, 2012
- Workshop: February 26, 2012
- Konstantin Busch (LSU)
- Dave Dice (Oracle)
- Faith Ellen (Toronto)
- Justin Gottschlich (Intel)
- Maurice Herlihy (Brown)
- Eshcar Hillel (Yahoo)
- Mikel Lujan (Manchester)
- Alessia Milani (LABRI, University of Bordeaux I)
- Torvald Riegel (Red Hat)
- Tatiana Shpeisman (Intel)
- Arrvindh Shriraman (Simon Fraser)
- Michael Spear (Lehigh) (Program Committee Chair)
- Babak Falsafi, CMU & EPFL
- Pascal Felber, Univ. of Neuchatel
- Dan Grossman, Univ. of Washington
- Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL
- Tim Harris, Microsoft Research
- Maurice Herlihy, Brown Univ.
- Tony Hosking, Purdue Univ.
- Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue Univ.
- Doug Lea, SUNY, Oswego
- Maged Michael, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Eliot Moss, UMass
- Jan Vitek, Purdue Univ.
- Michael Scott, Univ. of Rochester
- Michael Swift, Univ. of Wisconsin
- Craig Zilles, UIUC