Workshop on GC and runtimes for mobile devices

The interactions between memory management and virtual machines are a particular challenge on modern mobile devices. Both language and runtime-system support need to be integrated with highly optimised memory management policies in order to provide a high-level programming model. This one-day workshop aims to bring together UK academia and industry with the aim of establishing new links and enhancing existing collaboration within the framework of the UK Memory Management Network.

The UK Memory Management Network provides researchers from academia and industry with a unique opportunity to meet, to discuss challenges, state-of-the-art techniques and solutions, and to exchange ideas and experiences. This workshop will take place at Google, London on Friday 6th December 2013. We call for contributions on memory management or virtual machines including the topics below. Talks relating to mobile devices are particularly welcome.

• virtual machine implementation

• garbage collection algorithms

• performance tuning techniques

• empirical studies of dynamic behaviour

• abstractions and models for memory management

• runtime or language support

• transactional memory

Note that since this is an informal workshop, an MMNet presentation will not prevent publication elsewhere. Event registration is free, thanks to generous sponsorship from Google. We also thank the EPSRC for their support for the UK Memory Management Network.

A list of previous workshops gives an indication of topics covered in this series.