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CALL FOR PAPERS PDP 2010 - 18th Euromicro
International Conference on Parallel, Distributed
and network-based Processing

Pisa, Italy, February 17-19 2010.
http://www.pdp2010.org
Paper submission: July 20th, 2009.
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Scope
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Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone
impressive change over recent years. New architectures and
applications have rapidly become the central focus of the
discipline. These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of
parallel and distributed technologies with other rapidly evolving
technologies such as telecommunications and multimedia. It is of
paramount importance to review and assess these new developments in
comparison with recent research achievements in the well-established
areas of parallel and distributed computing, from industry and the
scientific community.

The PDP 2010 aims to provide a forum for the presentation of these and
other issues through original research presentations and to facilitate
the exchange of knowledge and new ideas at the highest technical
level. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
* Distributed Systems: Distributed databases, distributed
object-oriented systems, distributed operating systems,
heterogeneous distributed systems, distributed algorithms,
distributed shared memory systems
* Network-based Computing: Web computing, cluster computing, cloud
computing, computational grids, data grids, semantic grid, mobile
agents, distributed web services, security in distributed systems
* Parallel Computer Systems: massively parallel machines,
interconnection networks, embedded parallel and distributed
systems, fault-tolerance, memory organization, support for
parallel I/O, multi/many core systems, GPU and FPGA based parallel
systems
* Models and Tools for Parallel Programming Environments:
performance prediction and analysis, simulation, knowledge-based
parallel program development, visualization tools
* Advanced Applications: multi-disciplinary applications, parallel
databases, computations over irregular domains, numerical
applications with multi-level parallelism, real time distributed
applications, distributed business applications
* Languages, Compilers and Runtime Support Systems: task and data
parallel languages, functional and logic languages,
object-oriented languages, dependability issues, scheduling and
load balancing, task and object migration

Special Sessions
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The following special sessions will be organized within the conference:

* Next Generation of Web Computing, chair Konrad Klockner
* Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Peer-to-peer
environments, chair Didier El Baz
* Grid, Parallel and Distributed Bioinformatics Applications, chairs
Ivan Merelli and Daniel D'Agostino
* Grid and High Performance Computing for Nuclear Fusion
Applications, chair Rainer Stotzka and Jan Westerholm
* On-chip Parallel and Network-based Systems, chairs Sarbazi-Azad
and N. Bagherzadeh
* Virtualisation in Distributed Systems, chair Thierry Delaittre
* Parallel algorithms and software for sparse linear algebra
computations, chairs P. D'Ambra and D. Di Serafino
* Scalable Data Intensive Applications, chairs S. Orlando and R. Perego

Papers can be submitted either to conference main track or to one of
these Special Sessions. All accepted papers will be included in the
unique IEEE proceedings book. Links to web pages relative to the
Special Sessions will be available soon.

Important dates
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Deadline for paper submission: July 20th, 2009
Acceptance notification: October 5th, 2009
Camera ready paper due: October 30th, 2009
Conference: February 17-19th, 2010

Venue
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PDP 2010 will take place at the Dept. of Computer Science of the
University of Pisa, one of the most ancient university in Italy, with
the most ancient Computer Science Dept. in Italy. We invite you to
submit your papers and to join the conference in Pisa, the town of
Galileo and of the leaning tower.

Paper submission
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Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 5000
words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract. To facilitate
an anonymous reviewing process, the first page of the paper should
contain only the title and abstract; moreover, the name of the authors
of the paper must not appear in the reference section.

Program Co-Chairs
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Marco Danelutto, University of Pisa

Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar

Julien Bourgeois, University of Franche-Comte