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From: unido!unidocv.!dettmer@uunet.UU.NET (Thomas Dettmer)
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Subject: Re: concurrent program visualization
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Date: 23 May 89 14:36:29 GMT
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Hi,

what follows is a summary of literature hints I got on my 
request about concurrent program visualisation (I'm still interested).
There are no special articles of Proceedings specified, because 
most they include more than one interesting thing - the list would grow 
too big and I'm not the master for your choise. 

I could not read all until today, my time for the project is strictly 
limited at the moment. Naturally, the articles have some interesting 
literature lists also. Comments represent only my personal opinions.

        T. A. Cargill
        The Feel of Pi
        Proceedings of USENIX '86 Winter
        have not seen it yet, but seems to be interesting.
        see also:

        OOPSLA '86 Proceedings, September 1986 in
        ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 21, Number 11, November 1986
        has some interesting articles

        OOPSLA '87 Proceedings, October 1987 in 
        ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 23, Number 5, May 1988
        only listed for completeness

        Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN and SIGOPS Workshop on
        Parallel and Distributed Debugging
        University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, Mai 1988
        includes most good articles on this and related topics

        Wentong Cai
        Graphical Monitoring and Debugging of Parallel Systems
        University of Exeter, W177, GB Exeter, Januar 1989
	and
        Wentong Cai, Stephen Turner
        Highly Transparent Monitoring of Parallel Systems using 
        'Logical Clocks'
        University of Exeter, R168, GB Exeter, Januar 1989
        interesting for synchronized debugging, 
        less for visalisation (they will take about 3 pound sterling)

        ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 24, Number 4, April 1989
        again very interesting articles

        There was a tip to look for J. E. Cuny in INSPEC, I couldn't find
        her (?).

	Another interesting work on the topic seems to be PARET, 
	an integrated Visual tool for study of parallel systems.
	I will get an article from the authors soon, so for information
	send mail to me or the author:
                John Edmark
                AT&T Bell Laboratories
                Room 4G-626
                Crawfords Corner Road
                Holmdel, NJ 07733
                EMAIL: edmark@vax135.att.com

Related Work

        Andreas M\:*unzner, Joseph Thobe
        EXDIS - Computer Aided Simulation Analysis [in german]
        from University of Hannover
        GMD-Studien Nr. 155, 4. E.I.S.-Workshop,
        Bonn, Februar 89

        R. Buschke, K. Lagemann
        SIMUEVA; parts 3 and 4: From error 
        indication to error cause [in german]
        from University of Hamburg
        GMD-Studien Nr. 155, 4. E.I.S.-Workshop,
        Bonn, Februar 89

Thank's for any help. For those who asked fo special things or email 
answers - it will arrive the next day's, otherwise your mail was 
lost. If somebody is further interested - send mail (see below).

         Ciao
            tom.

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