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CALL FOR
PAPERS - Extended Deadline: June 2, 2012
The 2012
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques and Applications
PDPTA'12
July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
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INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a full paper (max of 7 pages)
for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in printed
conference books/proceedings
(ISBN) and will also be made available online. Abstract
submissions (1 to 2
pages) will be considered for poster presentations. The
conference proceedings
will be made available in printed book as well as online.
The proceedings
will be indexed in science citation databases that track
citation frequency/
data for each paper. The proceedings of the congress that
PDPTA is part of
enjoys a high number of citations; about 26,000 citations
have been made (so
far) to papers published in the proceedings. The
conference is co-sponsored
by various associations and groups as well as centers,
large labs, and
institutes affiliated with University of Iowa, George
Mason University,
Texas A&M University, Harvard University and MIT,
University of Minnesota,
US national labs, and many others. Corporate sponsors
include, Intel
Corporation, Super Micro Computer, Inc., and others.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the
opportunity to submit
their papers in response to earlier "Call For
Papers". Therefore, authors
who have already submitted papers in response to earlier
"Call For Papers"
should IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been
notified that their
papers have been accepted, MUST still follow the
instructions that were
emailed to them; including meeting the deadlines
mentioned in the
notifications that were sent to them).
IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES:
Please note that the conference web site refers to
different deadlines; those
who receive this announcement should ignore the deadlines
mentioned on the
web (we are not updating the deadlines on the conference
web site because we
would like to control the number of submissions - we can
only manage a limited
number of additional submissions at this late date). What
appears below are
the current deadlines.
June 2, 2012:
Submission of papers for evaluation
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them to the following general evaluation web site:
June 14, 2012:
Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
June 22, 2012:
Registration
July 16-19, 2012:
The 2012 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'12)
July 30, 2012:
Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication
(papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement
will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which
will go to press soon after the conference.)
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/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 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 High-performance
mobile computation and communication.
O Object oriented
technology and related issues.
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
SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS AND INDEXING INFORMATION:
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 June 2, 2012 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 that the paper is being submitted for
consideration must
be stated on the first page of the paper (ie, PDPTA) 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.
Authors whose papers are ACCEPTED will be instructed to
upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers
to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct
typesetting.
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 such as:
Inspec / IET / The
Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French
National Center for
Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL
(covers the core
scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions
are journals;
only about 9% are proceedings; the set of proceedings
that PDPTA is part
of has been selected to be among the 9% - 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
EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the
proceedings that PDPTA
was part of were included in these databases. Therefore,
we will also be
sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI
Compendex/Elsevier.
In addition to the publication of the proceedings,
selected authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for
publication in a
number of research books contracted with various
publishers. These books
will be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs
of tracks will be
forming journal special issues to be published after the
conference.
Note that authors who submit papers in response to this
announcement, will
have their papers evaluated for publication consideration
in the Final
Edition of the conference proceedings which will go to
press soon after the
conference (the conference would then make the necessary
arrangements to ship
the printed proceedings/books to such authors). The Final
Edition of the
conference proceedings will be identical to earlier
edition except for a
number of sections/chapters appended to the
proceedings/book. 4043
Submission of Poster Papers:
Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow
the same instructions
that appear above. On the first page, the author should
state that "This paper
is being submitted as a poster for PDPTA". Poster
papers (if accepted) will
be published if and only if the author of the accepted
poster wishes to have
his/her poster published as a 2-page extended abstract.)
GENERAL INFORMATION:
PDPTA conference is being held jointly (same location and
dates) with a
number of other federated research conferences (World Congress
in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing).
This federated congress
is the largest annual gathering of researchers in
computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. The 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),
Broad Institute of MIT
and 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.), and many other distinguished
speakers. To get a
feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011
delegates photos available
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.
The list of co-sponsors of 2012 meeting is Currently
being prepared;
for the 2011 list of sponsors, refer to:
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:
The congress proceedings enjoy a high number of
citations. In total, about
26,000 citations have been made (so far) to papers
published in the proceedings
of the federated congress. The link below contains the
url's to the citation
data for each track (each link is a live search and so it
may take a few
seconds for the data to pull up):
USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. PDPTA 2012 web site:
2. To see the caliber of the past offering of worldcomp,
see the 2011 congress web site:
3. The 2011 delegates photos are available at:
CONTACT:
Any inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org