CALL FOR
PAPERS
EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline:
April 20, 2013
PDPTA'13
The 2013 International Conference
on Parallel
and Distributed Processing Techniques
and Applications
July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas,
USA
Indexing: Scopus, SCI Compendex,
Engineering Village, ...
INDEXING:
The
proceedings/books of this conference have been evaluated and approved for
inclusion into science citation index / SCI databases. We are happy to report
that the evaluation board of science citation index databases have APPROVED the
indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the PDPTA proceedings into relevant
Elsevier indexing databases (Elsevier indexing databases include, among others:
Scopus, www.info.scopus.com;
SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others). In addition, the proceedings
will also be indexed by a number of other science citation databases that track
citation frequency/data for each paper.
INVITATION:
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. 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, ...). 58443
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
- EXTENDED:
April 20,
2013: Submission of full/regular
papers (about 7 pages)
May 11,
2013: Notification of acceptance
(+/- two days)*
May 25,
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, will receive their papers'
status report
(notification) much sooner than May 11, 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 20, 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: relevant Elsevier indexing products (SCI Elsevier products
include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others); 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.
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.
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