The 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2012)

http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/ispa2012

Madrid, Spain, 10-13 July 2012


** Important Dates **
==================================
Papers due: January, 31, 2012
Notification: March, 15 2012
Camera ready: April, 15 2012
Conference dates: July, 10-13, 2012


Context
=================================
ISPA-12 follows the traditions of previous successful ISPA conferences, ISPA-03 (Aizu, Japan), ISPA-04 (Hong Kong), ISPA-05 (Nanjing, China), ISPA-06 (Sorrento, Italy), ISPA-07 (Niagara Falls, Canada) and ISPA-08 (Sydney, Australia), ISPA-09 (Chengdu, China), ISPA-10 (Taipei, Taiwan) and ISPA-11 (Busan, Korea).

The objective of ISPA 2012 is to provide a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, research results, and applications about all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and networking. It will feature session presentations, workshops, tutorials, and keynote speeches. ISPA-12 is sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and IEEE Computer Society.

Topics of interest
=================================
* Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, and Applications.
* High-performance scientific and engineering computing.
* Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, SoC
* Architectures and Virtualization.
* Middleware and tools.
* Network and pervasive computing.
* Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations.
* Reliability, fault tolerance, and security.
* Database, data mining, and data management.
* Virtualization techniques, tools, and applications.
* Parallel/distributed system architectures.
* Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development.
* Novel parallel programming paradigms.
* Code generation and optimization.
* Compilers for parallel computers
* Distributed systems and applications.
* Wireless networks, mobile, and pervasive computing.
* Energy management and power optimization.
* Green Computing and Energy-aware computing.
* Grid and cluster computing.
* Cloud systems and services.
* Programming models for Cloud services and applications.
* Internet computing and web services.
* Database applications, data mining, and data management.
* Data intensive applications and Internet-Of-Things.
* IoT and Ubiquitous computing: application scenarios.


Submissions
=================================
* Submissions should not exceed 8 pages in IEEE CS proceedings paper format, including tables and figures. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submissions will be conducted electronically on the conference website.


Workshop proposals
=================================
Please, submit workshop proposals (according to the guidelines available at ISPA-12 web site) before Nov, 15, 2011 to Prof. Florin Isaila (florin.isaila [at] uc3m.es) with the subject "ISPA-12 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL".


Journal publications
==================================
Extended versions of distinguished selected papers accepted and presented in ISPA 2012, after further revisions, will be published in issues of following indexed international journals:

- Cluster computing, Springer.
- The Computer Journal, Oxford.
- Int. Journal of Parallel Programming, Springer.
- Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer.
- Computer & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier.


Best paper awards
=================================
An award will be given to the best paper of the conference and to the best student paper.


Steering Chairs
=================================
Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jia Tong University, China)
Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)


General Chairs
=================================
David Abramson (Monash eScience and Grid Lab, Australia)
J. Daniel Garcia (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Thomas Ludwig (German Climate Computing Center and University of Hamburg, Germany)


General Vice-Chairs
=================================
Felix Garcia (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Ruppa K. Thulasiram (University of Manitoba, Canada)


Program Chairs
=================================
Nelson Amaral (University of Alberta, Canada)
Jesus Carretero (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Mitsuhisa Sato (University of Tsukuba, Japan)


Workshop Chairs
=================================
Florin Isaila (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Avery Ching (Yahoo, USA)


Tutorial Chair
=================================
Robert Latham (Argonne National Labs, USA)


International Advisory Committee
=================================
Hamid R. Arabnia (The University of Georgia, USA)
Alok Choudhary (Northwestern University, USA)
Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA)
Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago, USA)
Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Eleni Karatza (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Victor C.M. Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA)
Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA)
Stephen S. Yau (Arizona State University, USA)
Albert Y. Zomaya (The University of Sydney, Australia)


Program Vice-Chairs
=================================
Edson Borin (University of Campinas, Brasil)
Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy)
Christian Engelmann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Akihiro Inokuchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Raffaele Montella (University of Napoli Parthenope, Italy)
Rainer Keller (HLRS, Germany)
Parimala Thulasiraman (University of Manitoba, Canada)


International Program Committee
=================================
**Please visit the conference web site (http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/ispa2012/)