TRANSACT20094th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional

Computing

February 15, 2009

Dan Grossman

Program Chair

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Welcome!

• Vibrant venue bringing together “transactions researchers”– Full range: theory, semantics, benchmarks, hw, sw, …

• Follows 3 successful prior workshops – PPoPP 2008, PODC 2007, PLDI 2006

• Strong submissions means a pretty packed program– 15 talks at 20 minutes + 5 minute discussion– But didn’t skimp on breaks: want an active workshop

• A little on submission data, logistics, etc. before we start…

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Growing interest

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Accepted 10 11 13 15

Submitted 19 23 27 38

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Who submitted

Note: Did not ask for “topic area”Note: Numbers exceed 38 due to co-authorship

Industry: 14Academia: 27

United States: 20 Belgium: 1Germany: 3 China: 1India: 3 The Netherlands: 1Switzerland: 3 New Zealand: 1Canada: 2 Portugal: 1England: 2 Turkey: 1Israel: 2Spain: 2

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Program selection

• Each paper reviewed by 3 PC members– Plus 24 external reviews (folded in)

• One week on-line discussion– Message board for each paper– Worked well: thoughtful, led to consensus

• No room for many strong submissions

• PC submissions held to a higher standard– 3 accepted out of 6

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Papers

“It is the expressed intent of the organizers to avoid any obstacle to subsequent publication of presented work

in other refereed forums”

• Informal program includes copies of papers– This is not a publication

• Workshop website http://transact09.cs.washington.edu has copies of most papers (author preference)– This is not a publication

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Thank you!General Chair: Craig Zilles

Program Committee:Hans-J. BoehmSandhya DwarkadasFaith EllenRob EnnalsChristof FetzerMilo MartinTom HenzingerMaged MichaelMark MoirKevin MooreTatiana ShpeismanMichael SwiftSerdar TasiranMichal Young

Steering Committee:Babak FalsafiPascal FelberRachid GuerraouiTim HarrisMaurice HerlihyTony HoskingSuresh JagannathanDoug LeaMaged MichaelEliot MossMichael ScottJan Vitek

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Feedback?

How can we make TRANSACT better?

What’s working? What’s not?

Let me or a Steering Committee member know– Today– Or by email

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Logistics / Schedule

Full schedule is in your program

Session 1: 8:30-10:10 (Craig Zilles)

Break: 10:10-10:40

Session 2: 10:40-Noon (Michael Swift)

Lunch: Noon-1:00

Session 3: 1:00-2:40 (Tatiana Shpeisman)

Break: 2:40-3:10

Session 4: 3:10-5:00 (Milo Martin)