[ posting on behalf of Richard Jones [R.E.Jones@kent.ac.uk] ] ********************************************** * Call for Contributions * * 6th Memory Management Network Workshop * * Cambridge UK, Friday 10th November 2006 * ********************************************** We are pleased to announce the sixth UK MM-NET workshop, a day for talks on: - recent memory management research; - issues and experiences using memory management; - future demands and directions for study. where we define memory management broadly to include topics such as: - garbage collection of main-memory, persistent and distributed systems, - explicit dynamic memory allocation/de-allocation, - measurement of memory system workloads, such as access patterns and object demographics, - interactions between programming languages, operating systems and hardware. We aim to strengthen the network of researchers and developers, as a resource to improve all our results -- be they in research or commercial application. If you have a new result, tool, or war-story, the workshop is an ideal informal setting to spread the word about it. The following subjects are of particular interest for this workshop: - language VMs; - improving adoption of better memory management practice. To contribute a talk or demonstration, please contact the Programme Co-chairs. Slots can be from as little as 20 minutes up to 1 hour. The day will run from 10am to 5pm. Researchers and developers are welcome to attend; there is no attendance fee, but registration is required. The workshop will be held at the University Centre, Cambridge, UK, and is sponsored by Ravenbrook Limited. CONTRIBUTIONS Talks on all memory management topics will be considered. Please contact the Programme Co-chairs: Richard Jones of the University of Kent, and Richard Kistruck of Ravenbrook Limited, at: mmw06@ravenbrook.com. Presentation of recent and ongoing work is welcomed: workshop presentations are not considered to be publications of original research (thus do not present a bar to submissions to other conferences or journals). Informal demonstrations of working systems and tools are also welcomed. REGISTRATIONS Ravenbrook Limited is acting as registration secretary. Please email mmw06@ravenbrook.com to register. FURTHER INFORMATION <http://www.mm-net.org.uk/> MM-NET is a network of researchers, interested in memory management for programming languages. The project's mission is to strengthen collaboration between UK industry and academia to further research and development of advanced memory management systems. MM-NET's previous workshops have been highly successful in this respect, bringing together researchers with interests ranging from logics for reasoning about memory use to developers of embedded systems. <http://www.mm-net.org.uk/> Ravenbrook Limited is a software engineering consultancy with expertise in memory management, programming language implementation, and wider software engineering issues. Ravenbrook develops the MPS (Memory Pool System), a flexible open-source memory management and garbage collection framework. Ravenbrook is based in Cambridge, UK. <http://www.ravenbrook.com/> Richard Jones Richard Kistruck Workshop co-chairs