The 1998 International Symposium on Memory Management
 

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
October 17-19 (Note change of dates)

Sponsored by SIGPLAN
Co-located with OOPSLA

ISMM '98 will be held in Ballroom C of the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre, across the stree from Waterfront Center (the recommended hotel). A Continental Breakfast will be available in Ballroom C from 7:30 to 8:30. The program will start at 8:30 on Saturday. You will be able to register in Ballroom C.

The ISMM '98 Programme is now available. Further details will be added soon.

You may REGISTER for ISMM either using the electronic registration form or by printing and mailing or faxing a plain text form.

Conference attendees should utilize the OOPSLA Housing Bureau to make HOTEL RESERVATIONS, preferably at the Waterfront Center. You may use the other hotels but there will be no busing on Saturday. The Accommodation Reservation Form should be used to reserve a room at the conference rates. Note: The OOPSLA Housing Bureau information makes no mention of ISMM (at the time this is being written), but they will arrange ISMM housing.

The International Symposium on Memory Management is a forum for research in several related areas of memory management, especially garbage collection and dynamic storage allocators. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: garbage collection, dynamic storage allocation, storage managemeent implementation techniques and their interactions with language and OS implementation, and empirical studies of programs' memory allocation and referencing behavior.

ISMM '98 continues the tradition of the successful to the International Workshops on Memory Management held in 1992 (St. Malo, France) and 1995 (Kinross, Scotland). Proceedings of these conferences are available from Springer-Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science no. 637 and no. 986).

The 1998 Symposium Proceedings will be published by ACM. Authors should read the ACM Author Guidelines and related information.

Conference Committee

Simon Peyton Jones, general chair
Richard Jones, program chair and proceedings
J. Eliot B. Moss, treasurer
F. Warren Burton, local arrangements

Program Committee

Hans-Juergen Boehm, Silicon Graphics Inc.
Peter Dickman, University of Glasgow
Georges Gonthier, INRIA Rocquencourt
Antony L. Hosking, Purdue University
Richard Jones, University of Kent at Canterbury
J. Eliot B. Moss, University of Massachussetts
Scott Nettles, University of Pennsylvania
Marc Shapiro, INRIA Rocquencourt
Guy L. Steele Jr., Sun Microsystems Laboratories

Related Web Pages

Contents of IWMM '95 proceedings

Contents of IWMM '92 proceedings

Wilson et al.'s OOPS Group Home Page . (Contains extensive surveys on garbage collection and memory allocators).

Richard Jones's GC page .

David Chase et al.'s GC FAQ .

Harlequin's Memory Management Reference page.

Collected papers from the (unrefereed) OOPSLA workshops on garbage collection and memory management, from 1990 , 1991 , 1993 and 1997.

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Maintained by Warren Burton