News:
WDDD Final Program now available!
Call for Papers [PDF]
Important Deadlines
Abstract due:
Submission:
Acceptance:
Final version:
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April 16
April 23 (11:59PM EST)
May 4th
May 11th
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Workshop Overview
WDDD provides the computer systems research
community a forum for work that validates or duplicates earlier results;
deconstructs prior findings by providing greater, in-depth insight into causal
relationships or correlations; or debunks earlier findings by describing
precisely how and why proposed techniques fail where earlier successes were
claimed, or succeed where failure was reported.
Traditionally, computer systems conferences and workshops focus almost
exclusively on novelty and performance, neglecting an abundance of interesting
work that lacks one or both of these attributes. A significant part of research-in
fact, the backbone of the scientific method-involves independent validation
of existing work and the exploration of strange ideas that never pan out.
This workshop provides a venue for disseminating such work in our community.
Published validation experiments strengthen existing work, while thorough
comparisons provide new dimensions and perspectives. Studies that refute
or correct existing work also strengthen the research community, by ensuring
that published material is technically correct and has sound assumptions.
Publishing negative or strange or unexpected results will allow future researchers
to learn the hard lessons of others, without repeating their effort.
This workshop will set a high scientific standard for such experiments,
and will require insightful analysis to justify all conclusions. The workshop
will favor submissions that provide meaningful insights and point to underlying
root causes for the failure or success of the technique under investigation.
Acceptable work must thoroughly investigate and clearly communicate why the
proposed technique performs as the results indicate.
Submission Topics
- Independent validation of earlier results with meaningful analysis
- In-depth analysis and sensitivity studies that provide further insight
into earlier findings, or identify key parameters or assumptions that affect
the results
- Studies that refute earlier findings, with clear justification and
explanation
- Negative results for ideas that intuitively make sense and should
work, along with explanations for why they do not
Workshop Scope
Computer Architecture
- Processor architecture/microarchitecture
- Memory hierarchy
- Multiprocessor systems
- Power-efficient architectures
- Dependable architectures
- Compiler/architecture interaction
- Application-specific, reconfigurable, and embedded architectures
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Code generation and Optimization
- Feedback-driven optimization
- Phase-based optimization
- Dynamic compilation, adaptive/continuous optimization
- Modulo/trace scheduling
- Efficient profiling techniques
- Binary translation/optimization
- Parallel compilation/compiler support for thread level speculation
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Submission Guidelines
- Submit a 200-word abstract plus title and list of authors in plain
text email by April 16th to tcain@us.ibm.com.
- Submit a 5000-word or less double-spaced manuscript by 11:59
PM EST, April 23rd using the online submission
form.
Organizers
Program Committee
- David August (Princeton University)
- Bryan Black
- Mauricio Breternitz (Intel)
- Harold Cain (IBM Research)
- Rich Hankins (Nokia)
- Mike Hind (IBM Research)
- Stephen Keckler (University of Texas)
- Mikko Lipasti (University of Wisconsin)
- Gabriel Loh (Georgia Tech)
- Ryan Rakvic (United State Naval Academy)
- Eric Rotenberg (NC State University)
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