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CALL FOR
PAPERS
EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline:
April 6, 2013
PDPTA'13
The 2013 International Conference
on Parallel
and Distributed Processing Techniques
and Applications
July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas,
USA
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You are invited
to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published
in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available
online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track
citation frequency/data for each paper. Like prior years, extended versions of
selected papers (about 35%) will appear in journals and edited research books
(publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others).
In addition to
the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers
(Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with
Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational
Intelligence). After the conference, a significant number of authors of
accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the
extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books.
The web sites for the two book series will be made available after the logistics
are finalized between our committee and the publishers (both book series
projects have been approved.) We anticipate having between
10 to 20 books a
year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be
subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes:
Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...).
PDPTA'13 is
composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials, sessions, workshops,
posters, and panel discussions. All tutorials are free to registered conference
attendees - for a partial list of approved tutorials,
The conference
will be held July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.
SCOPE: Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
O Parallel/Distributed applications:
Numerical computations/methods, neural
networks and fuzzy logic,
medicine, remote sensing, computer vision,
computer graphics and
virtual reality, parallel/distributed
databases, banking,
financial markets, high-performance
computational biology, ...
O Parallel/Distributed architectures:
Clusters and parallel systems of various
topologies, supercomputers,
shared memory, distributed memory, general-
and special-purpose
architectures, instructional level and
thread level parallelism,
petascale and exascale systems design.
O Networks and interconnection networks:
Scalable networks, reconfigurable networks,
routing issues,
general-purpose network performance for
distributed applications,
network protocols, internet technology,
optical interconnections and
computing, novel network topologies, ...
O Reliability and fault-tolerance:
Software and hardware fault-tolerance
(system- and application-level),
fault diagnosis, fault-tolerance
measurement.
O Building block processors:
Applications of processors that can be used
as basic building blocks
for multicomputer systems.
O Real-time and embedded systems:
Small-scale parallel systems for high-performance
control,
data acquisition, and analysis;
configuration, routing, scheduling,
performance guarantees, ...
O Parallel and Distributed algorithms:
Stability, scalability, and fault-tolerance
of algorithms and data
structures, scheduling, and load balancing.
Algorithms exploiting
clusters and general-purpose distributed and
parallel systems, new
vector/pipeline issues, shared memory,
distributed memory,
virtual memory, ...
O Multimedia communications, systems, and
applications:
High-speed networking, multimedia
architectures and protocols,
multimedia applications, quality of service
support, operating system
and networking support, internet tools and
applications, audio/video
delivery over the internet, ...
O Software tools and environments for parallel
and distributed platforms:
operating systems, compilers, languages,
debuggers, monitoring tools,
software engineering on parallel/distributed
systems, ...
O High-performance computing in computational
science:
intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
research applications.
O Big Data and Applications:
Massively parallel-processing (MPP)
databases, Data-mining grids,
distributed file systems, distributed
databases, Cloud based
infrastructure, Big Data cluster analysis,
Crowdsourcing, data fusion
and integration, machine learning, neural
networks, pattern recognition,
anomaly detection, predictive modeling,
simulation, time series
analysis and visualisation, Search-based
applications.
O Performance evaluation and management of
wireless networks and
distributed systems.
O FPGA, multicore, GPU, SOC and applications.
O Ultra low power data-driven systems.
O Performance analysis, evaluation, prediction,
...
O Nanotechnology in HPC.
O RAID systems.
O Petri Nets: theory, analysis, tools and
applications.
O Web-based simulation and computing
(planetlab, ...) O Grid and Cloud
computing.
O Other aspects and applications relating to
HPC O Emerging technologies
IMPORTANT DATES:
April 6,
2013: Submission of full/regular
papers (about 7 pages)
April 27,
2013: Notification of acceptance (+/-
two days)*
May 14,
2013: Final papers + Copyright +
Registration
July 22-25,
2013: The 2013 International Conference
on Parallel & Distributed
Processing Techniques and
Applications (PDPTA'13)
*Authors who
submitted their papers early (between January 19th through March 19th), will receive their papers'
status report (notification) by April
18, 2013.
MEASURABLE
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of March 14,
2013, papers published in Congress proceedings that PDPTA is part of, have
received 27,591 citations (includes 3,342 self-citations). Citation data
obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .
SUBMISSION OF
REGULAR PAPERS:
Prospective
authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation
web site at: http://world-comp.org .
Submissions must
be uploaded by April 6, 2013 and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (about
7 pages including all figures, tables, and references - single space, font size
of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the
authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page
of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal
address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify
the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would
best represent the content of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, PDPTA)
must also be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a 100 to 150-word
abstract. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.
Each paper will
be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance,
clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a
member of the conference program committee would be charged to make the final
decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from
additional referees. Papers whose authors include a member of the conference
program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process.
(Papers deemed to be philosophical, essay type, or about controversial
topics/applications will not be refereed but may be considered for
discussion/panels/presentation).
The proceedings
will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made
available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases
that track citation frequency/data for each published paper. Science citation
databases include: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering &
Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST
databases, PASCAL (accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID,
Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others. Though, there is no
guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in SCI EI
Compendex/Elsevier indexings; in the past, the proceedings were included in
these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for
indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books
will be available for distribution on site at the conference - online/soft
versions will also be made available world-wide.
In addition to
the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers
(Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with
Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational
Intelligence). After the conference, a significant number of authors of
accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the
extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books.
We anticipate having between 10 to 20 books a year in each of these book series
projects. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer
science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...).
SUBMISSION OF
POSTER PAPERS:
Poster papers
can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions that appear
above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the submission is limited
to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper is
being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be
published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.
CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being
prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offering of PDPTA (2012) included
research labs and centers affiliated with:
University of
Minnesota, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; George Mason University,
Virginia, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; North
Carolina A & T State University, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), Massachusetts, USA; Texas A&M University, USA; UMIT, Institute of
Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; University of Iowa, USA;
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Medical Image HPC and Informatics
Lab, Iowa, USA; P3P8PCTD58443 and many others.
Sponsors
At-Large included (corporate, associations, organizations):
Intel Corporation;
Super Micro Computer, Inc., California, USA; Altera Corporation; The
International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; International Society of
Intelligent Biological Medicine; US Chapter of World Academy of Science; High
Performance Computing for Nanotechnology; Luna Innovations; World Academy of
Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Manx Telecom; Computer Science Research,
Education, and Applications Press; HoIP Telecom; Hodges Health; Leading
Knowledge; OMG; Science Publications and others.
MEMBERS OF
PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being
finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of The
2012 Congress
that PDPTA was (and will be) part of included: Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly:
Chief Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation, USA) Senior Business Leader
& Chief Architect, Visa Corporation, USA; Prof.
Babak Akhgar,
PhD, FBCS, CITP, Professor of Informatics, Sheffield Hallam University,
Sheffield, UK; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor of Computer Science, Elected
Fellow of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science,
Director of Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs, Department of
Mathematics, Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Detroit
Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Gerry Vernon Dozier, Professor of Computer
Science, Chair of Department of Computer Science and Director of Center for
Advanced Studies in Identity Sciences, Center for Cyber Defense, North Carolina
A&T State University, North Carolina, USA; Dr. Michael R.
Grimaila,
Associate Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Systems Engineering,
Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, Editorial Board of ISSA Journal, Air
Force Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the Prince of Wales Fellows
& Prince Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard Universities and PC member of
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE); Prof. Kun Chang
Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Business School
and Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South
Korea; Prof., Dr., Dr.h. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software
Department (SSD), Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical
Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. George Markowsky,
Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Associate Director of School of
Computing and Information Science, Chair of International Advisory Board of
IEEE IDAACS and Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition,
Chair Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, Cooperating Professor of Mathematics & Statistics
Department UMaine, Cooperating Professor of School of Policy &
International Affairs UMaine, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof.
Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP, Director of HoIP Telecom, UK, Secretary-General
of WABT, Vice- president of ICET, Visiting Professor, University of
Westminster, UK; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer Science
and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
(SeoulTech), Korea, President of KITCS, Presidentof FTRA, Editor-in-Chiefs of
HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Ashu M. G. Solo (Publicity Chair), Fellow of
British Computer Society, Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and
Mathematician, Maverick Technologies America; Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and
Professor of Computer Science, Vice President, of Society for Design and
Process Science (SDPS), Director of Intelligent Cyberspace Engineering Lab
(ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com., Texas, USA; Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE
Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of
Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Virginia, USA
The 2013 Program
Committee for PDPTA conference is currently being finalized. Many who have
already joined the committees are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers,
scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of
research labs., fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments,
program directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans and provosts.
GENERAL
INFORMATION:
PDPTA is an
international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals,
students, and academicians who are looking to both foster working relationships
and gain access to the latest research results.
It is being held
jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences;
namely, The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP). The Congress is the largest annual gathering of
researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We
anticipate to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 85 countries.
The 2013
Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited
presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In
recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A.
Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric
Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as
Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as
Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
(pioneer, VR, U.
of California,
Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim
Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John
Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D.
Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna
(pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director
and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's
JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of
Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief
Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Rutgers
University, New Jersey, USA and former director of Division of Information and
Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre
(Vice- President, HPCC Systems), and many other distinguished speakers. To get
a feeling about the Congress's atmosphere, see the 2012 delegates photos
available at: http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp
An important
mission of the Congress is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse
community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers,
educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out
to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities,
institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs)
from all over the world. The Congress also attempts to connect participants
from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are
affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The
Congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity
objectives."
One main goal of
the Congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences,
workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers
in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, and applied
computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased
opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should
be sent to: sc@world-comp.org