SPAA

This volume consists the 35 regular papers and 10 brief announcements selected for presentation at the 22nd ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'10),, held June 13-15, 2010, in Santorini, Greece. It contains abstracts of the two keynote talks given by Anastasia ("Natassa") Ailamaki and Geoffery Fox. At the end, there is a corrigendum by Srikanth Sastry, Scott Pike, and Jennifer Welch for their paper "Weakest Failure Detector for Wait-Free Dining under Eventual Weak Exclusion," which appeared last year in SPAA'09.

The program committee selected the 35 regular and 10 brief presentations after an initial electronic discussion, a nearly all-day telephone conference on March 11, 2010, and a final round of electronic discussion on March 11 and 12, 2010. There were 110 submissions, of which 108 survived the first day after the submission deadline. Of these, 104 were long submissions and 4 were short submissions. The paper "Basic Network Creation Games" by Noga Alon, Erik Demaine, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, and Tom Leighton was selected the best paper.

The mix of selected papers reflects SPAA's intention to bring together the theory and practice of parallel computing. Thus this year's paper include strong theory papers, as well as papers containing strong experimental analysis. SPAA defines parallelism broadly to encompass any computational device or scheme that can perform multiple operations or tasks simultaneously or concurrently. Thus papers in this volume consider multithreading, multicore platforms, streaming, network algorithms, energy-aware computing, software tools, and more.

The technical papers in this volume are to be considered preliminary versions, and authors are generally expected to publish polished and complete versions in archival scientific journals. The committee selected the 10 brief announcements based on perceived interest to the SPAA attendees and their potential to seed new research in parallel algorithms and architectures. Extended versions of the SPAA brief announcements may be published later in other conferences or journals.