*** Last Mile ***

The 14th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed
Computing (ISPDC 2015)

29 June - 2 July, 2015, St. Raphael Resort 5*, Limassol, Cyprus

http://www.cyprusconferences.org/ispdc2015/

*** Submission Deadline: 22 February 2015 ***


Following very successful previous editions since 2002, the 14th ISPDC
conference will be hosted in Limassol, a beautiful coastal Mediterranean city
on the south coast of Cyprus. The conference will be devoted to a highly
selective program with papers describing original and unpublished research
advancing the state of the art in the field of Parallel and Distributed
Computing paradigms and applications. The goal is to provide an interactive
and friendly, yet professional forum, for original research contributions
describing novel ideas, groundbreaking results and/or experiences.

We kindly invite you to submit original contributions to ISPDC 2015 on topics
including, but not limited to:

System Architectures for Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Multi-Cores, Virtualization
- Clusters and Grid Computing
- Methods and Tools for Parallel and Distributed Programming
- Embedded, Mobile and Networking Environments
- System Architecture and System Software for In-Memory Computing
- Innovative System Architecture for Big Data Processing
- System Architecture for Graph Computing/Processing
- Interconnect Architecture for HPC and Data Centers

High Performance Computing and Large Scale Applications
- Tools and Environments for Parallel Program Design/Analysis
- Scalable Algorithms and Applications
- Urban Networks and Applications, Vehicular Networks
- Parallel, Distributed and Mobile big-Data Management

Parallel Computing and Algorithms
- Parallel Programming Paradigms and APIs
- GPU Programming
- Bio-inspired Parallel Algorithms
- Big Data and Graph Analytics
- Algorithms, Models and Formal Verification

Cloud Computing
- Cloud Resource Provisioning and Allocation
- Pricing of Cloud Resources
- Cloud Performance, and Capacity Management
- Green Cloud Computing
- Mobile Clouds
- Security and Privacy in Clouds
- Cloud Computing Techniques for Big Data
- Storage Architectures for Clouds and Big Data Processing

Distributed and Embedded Computing
- Collaborative Computing, P2P Computing
- Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
- Web Services and Internet Computing
- Distributed Software Components, Multi-agent Systems
- Parallel Embedded Systems Programming
- Highly Embedded Parallel Systems Support for Programming
- FPGA and SoC Solutions

Performance Modeling, Management and Optimization
- Scheduling and Load Balancing
- Performance Modeling, Analysis and Evaluation
- Optimisation, Security and Dependability

Interactivity
- Real-time Distributed and Parallel Systems
- Visualisation of Massively Parallel Data
- IoT, Social Networks

You are invited to submit original papers of up to 10 pages, written in English
and compliant with the IEEE standard (8.5"x11", two-column). The IEEE
Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings. A best paper award will
be presented to paper(s) receiving the highest quality rating from the
reviewers and the PC.

Key Dates
Submission of full papers: 22 February, 2015 (firm extended deadline)
Notification of authors: 31 March, 2015
Camera ready papers: 6 April, 2015
Authors and early registration deadline: 6 May, 2015
Symposium dates: 29 June - 2 July, 2015

General Chair
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Steering Committee
Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University, USA
Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technische Universität München, Germany
Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Bertil Folliot, University of Paris, France
Dan Grigoras, University College Cork, Ireland
John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland
Traian Muntean, Aix Marseille University, France
Dana Petcu, Western Univ. of Timisoara and e-Austria, Timisoara, Romania
Marek Tudruj, Polish Acad. of Sciences and PJIIT, Warsaw, Poland

Program Committee
http://www.cyprusconferences.org/ispdc2015/committees.html