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[boost] Time Series review - 7/30-8/8
by John Phillips 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

My apologies for the delay in this posting, but the review period for the Time Series library submitted by Eric Neibler runs from Monday, July 30 until Wednesday, August 8. From the documentation: The purpose of the Boost.Time_series library is to provide data structures, numerical operators and algorithms to operate on time series. A time series is a series of data points, sampled at regular intervals. The library provides numerous time series containers, each with different time/space trade-offs, and a hierarchy of concepts which allow the time series to be manipulated generically. The library also provides operators and algorithms which use the generic interfaces to perform calculations on time series and accumulate various statistics about them. Boost.Time_series does not yet contain all the algorithms one might want in order to perform full time series analysis. However, the key contribution of Boost.Time_series is the framework and the rich hierarchy of concepts with which such algorithms can be written to efficiently and generically process series of data with widely divergent in-memory representations and performance characteristics. Boost.Time_series provides several such series containers, as well as mechanisms for defining additional series types and algorithms that fit within the framework. Some examples of series types that are provided are: dense, sparse, piecewise constant, heaviside and others, as well as adaptors for providing shifted, scaled and clipped series views. Please notice that the Time Series library uses some features of boost that will be part off the 1.35 release, but are not I the 1.34.1 release. For testing, you will need to either test against CVS Head (Which will not be available for much of Tuesday.) or use backports provided in the time series download files to update your 1.34.x installation. The library is available from http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?directory=Math%20-% 20Numerics or by following the link provided on the review schedule. Thanks to all for your time and effort on this review. John Phillips Review Manager _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/ listinfo.cgi/boost

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Extended deadline - LCSD 2007 (CFP)
by Jeremy Siek 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

Extended deadline August 5, 2007 for research paper submissions. ACM SIGPLAN SYMPOSIUM ON LIBRARY-CENTRIC SOFTWARE DESIGN - LCSD'07 http://lcsd.cs.tamu.edu/2007 on October 21st, 2007 at Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'07) conference in Montreal, Canada, October 21-25, 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS Libraries are central to all major scientific, engineering, and business areas, yet the design, implementation, and use of libraries are underdeveloped arts. This symposium is one of the first steps in the process of placing all aspects of libraries on a sound technical and scientific basis through research into fundamental issues and documentation of best practices. A software library is an organized collection of code with associated tools supporting programming in general or in specific domains, usually united by a specified set of principles and conventions. Most libraries are aimed for use by several people and in different environments. The areas of software library research include * Design and implementation of libraries * Program and system design based on libraries * Libraries supporting specific application domains, such as biology or banking * Evolution, refactoring, and maintenance of libraries * Empirical studies of library use * Performance of libraries, including benchmarking and library-based optimizations * Design of language facilities and tools in support of library definition and use * Validation, debugging, and testing of libraries * Extensibility, parameterization, and customization * Distribution of libraries * Specification of libraries and their semantics * Usability for library users and developers * Assessing quality of libraries * Documentation and teaching of libraries * Creating and supporting communities of library users * Using several libraries in combination We invite the submission of papers on software library research, including, but not limited to, the above list of topics. The papers should address issues important to libraries as a field, i.e., describe ideas or techniques that can be reused for libraries across problem domains and/or languages. Authors should use the latest ACM SIGS conference style file (option 1) at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Submissions should be limited to 12 pages in this style. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM proceedings for the symposium. IMPORTANT DATES Aug 5 Submission of papers (new deadline) Sep 5 Notification of acceptance Sep 19 Submission of final versions of the papers Oct 21 Symposium SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submit papers using the START system at the following URL: https://www.softconf.com/starts/lcsd07/submit.html ORGANIZERS * Jaakko Jarvi, Texas A&M University * David Musser, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Sibylle Schupp, Chalmers University of Technology * Jeremy Siek, University of Colorado (Co-Chair) * Frank Tip, IBM T.J. Watson Research (Co-Chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Matthew Austern, Google * Antonio Cisternino, University of Pisa * Sean Parent, Adobe Systems Incorporated * Brian Goetz, Quiotix Corp. * Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University * Oege de Moor, Oxford University * Lawrence Rauchwerger, Texas A&M * Peter Sestoft, University of Copenhagen * Bjarne Stroustrup, AT&T Labs, Texas A&M * Michelle Strout, Colorado State University * Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich * Todd Veldhuizen, University of Waterloo In addition, the organizers will serve as program committee members. Primarily, the email address lcsd07(a)cs.tamu.edu should be used for questions addressed to the organizers. KEYNOTE ADDRESS There will be an invited talk by Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego. Doug Lea is the author of the book "Concurrent Programming in Java", and co-author of the text "Object-Oriented System Development". He is the author of several widely used software packages and components, as well as articles, reports, and standardization efforts dealing with object oriented software development including those on specification, design and implementation techniques, distributed, concurrent, and parallel object systems, and software reusability. SYMPOSIUM GOALS AND ACTIVITIES The symposium is a scientific forum for presenting original research in the design, implementation, and evaluation of software libraries. Other major activities include the identification of open questions specific to library research and the discussion of a strategic plan for establishing library research as a field. The outcome of the symposium is a combination of research contributions and specific next steps for improving the infrastructure for library research. Participants are expected to read the accepted submissions beforehand. The technical presentations, although based on the accepted papers, should not provide mere summaries of the papers. Instead, authors are encouraged to use their presentation slots (20 + 10 mins) to bring up topics for discussion. The technical presentations are mixed with scientific and organizational discussions. The discussions aim at furthering the topics of the presentations, thus their agenda will be publicly discussed among the participants and then posted on the website of the symposium. All participants are expected to come prepared with their tentative answers or thoughts. The full-day symposium starts with a keynote talk for the stimulation of discussion and concludes with a plenary discussion that decides the specific next steps for improving the infrastructure for library research. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND UPDATES please visit the symposium's Web site, http://lcsd.cs.tamu.edu/2007 _________________________________________________ Jeremy Siek <jeremy.siek(a)colorado.edu> http://ece.colorado.edu/~siek/ Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Colorado at Boulder

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Boost 1.34.1 Released
by Thomas Witt 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

http://www.boost.org Boost 1.34.1, the latest version of peer-reviewed, portable C++ libraries, has been released. This is a bug fix release addressing many problems with the 1.34.0 release. It is a recommended upgrade for all users of Boost 1.34.0. For a complete list of fixes see the Boost Trac at: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=closed&milestone=Boost +1.34.1 Supported Compilers: New in this release is improved support for the IBM XL C/C++ compiler. Boost is tested on a wide range of compilers and platforms. Since Boost libraries rely on modern C++ features not available in all compilers, not all Boost libraries will work with every compiler. The following compilers and platforms have been extensively tested with Boost, although many other compilers and platforms will work as well. For more information, see the regression test results. * Apple GCC 4.0.1 on Mac OS X. * Borland C++ 5.8.2 on Windows. * GNU C++ o 3.2.x., 3.3.x, 3.4.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x on Linux o 4.1.x on Solaris o 3.4.x on Windows * HP C++ for Tru64 UNIX 7.1. * HP aC++ A.06.14. * Intel C++ 9.1 on Windows, 9.0 on Linux. * Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9.4 on Windows. * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (sp5, with and without STLport), 7.0, 7.1, 8.0. Note: Boost does not support the non-standard "Safe" C++ Library shipping with Visual C++ 8.0, which may result in many spurious warnings from Boost headers and other standards-conforming C++ code. To suppress these warnings, define the macro _SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE. * Sun Studio 11 on Solaris. Acknowledgements Thomas Witt managed this release. A great number of people contributed their time and expertise to make this release possible. Special thanks go to Kim Barrett consolidating Boost.Iostreams changes from various branches and Rene Rivera for general build and installation support. -- Thomas Witt witt(a)acm.org

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