The 8th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing will take place in Daegu, Korea. GPC 2013 is the top place to meet professionals in grid, cloud and pervasive computing, sensor networks, mobile computing, and service oriented computing. GPC 2013 is the place to get the latest information and meet researchers working in these fields.

In the last seventh years the conference has established itself as an international forum for providers and practitioners of, and researchers into, grid and pervasive computing. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of grid and pervasive systems for a variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions, panel discussions and social events. Participants will include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government organizations interested in furthering the development of grid and pervasive computing.


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Topics
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We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:


- Cloud, cluster and grid computing
- Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive computing
- Sensor and Ad hoc networks
- Mobile agents and networking
- Service-oriented computing
- Middleware, resource management, and runtime environments
- Programming models, tools and environments for distributed and pervasive computing
- Grid and pervasive applications, including eScience and eBusiness applications
- Creation and management of virtual enterprises and organizations
- Grid and cloud computing economy and business models
- Semantic web, semantic grid, metadata and ontology related to pervasive and distributed computing
- Distributed multimedia analysis and processing
- Security and privacy in grid, pervasive and cloud computing
- Middleware Frameworks and Toolkits
- Virtualization techniques, tools, and applications
- Parallel programming models and languages
- Parallel language compiler and run-time support
- Parallel and distributed systems
- Performance modeling, prediction, and tuning
- Multi-core and cluster computing
- Ubiquitous Communications and Networks
- Embedded and Pervasive Computing
- Social Network and Services
- Multimedia Communications
- Machine to Machine Communications



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**Call for Workshop Proposals**

In conjunction with GPC-13, we will organize some workshops.

The workshop proposals should be submitted to the Leading Workshop Chair,
Prof. Joon-Min Gil (jmgil@cu.ac.kr) , by **Oct. 30, 2012**.

It is expected that the accepted and presented papers in the workshops be included in GPC-13 proceeding -LNCS
(indexed by EI, ISTP, and SCOPUS) series published by Springer (Pending).

In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-days and half-day workshops are welcome.

Financial Supports for Workshop Organizer: We will provide workshop organizers to some honorariums based on
their contribution (at least 6 registed papers).



**Important Dates **
Workshop Proposal Submission Due Oct. 30, 2012
Workshop Acceptance Notification Dec. 15, 2012
Camera-ready paper Due Jan. 1, 2012
Registration Due Jan. 15, 2013
Conference/Workshop Dates May 9-11, 2013
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Organization
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== Organizing Committee ==


Honorary Chairs
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Kim Bum-il, Mayor of Daegu Metropolitan City, Korea


General Chairs
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James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, SeoulTech, Korea
Hong Shen, University of Adelaide, Australia
Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA


General Vice-Chairs
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Martin Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea
Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea


Program Chairs
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Cheonshik Kim, Sejong University, Korea (Leading Chair)
Weisong Shi, Wayne State U., USA
HeonChang Yu, Korea University, Korea
George Roussos, University of London, UK


Workshop Chairs
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Joon-Min Gil, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea (Leading Chair)
Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA
Mohamed Gaber, University of Portsmouth, UK


Publication Chair
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Hwa Young Jeong, Kyung Hee University


Steering Committee
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Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (Chair)
Nabil Abdennadher, Univ. of applied Sciences, West. Switzerland
Christophe Cerin, University of Paris XIII, France
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Univ. of California - Irvine, USA
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China
Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan


Publicity Co-chairs
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Jaehwa Chung, Korea National Open University, Korea
Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Chun-Cheng Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Julio Sahuquillo, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Akihiro Fujiwara, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan


Keynote Speakers
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C.S. Raghavendra, University of Southern California, USA


== Program Committee ==
- See http://www.ftrai.org/gpc2013/program_committe.html



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Important Dates
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Workshop Proposal Due Oct. 30, 2012
Paper Submission Due Oct. 30, 2012
Accept Notification Dec. 15, 2012
Camera-ready paper Due Jan. 1, 2012
Registration Due Jan. 15, 2013
Conference/Workshop Dates May 9-11, 2013



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Submission and Publication
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There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers. Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentations in any of the areas of interest for this conference. Authors should submit a paper with 6-8 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. If you want to submit more than page limitation, you can add up to 2 extra pages with the appropriate fee payment.
Papers must strictly adhere to page limits - a paper with 8 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost).
Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

Please use the Springer Proceedings format for submission. Template is available here:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as one of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series published by Springer (indexed by EI & SCOPUS).
Submission system: http://www.editorialsystem.net/gpc2013

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in GPC 2013, after further revisions, will be
published in the special issues of the following international journals (Pending):
- The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
- Cluster Computing (CC) - Springer (SCI-E)
- Human-centric Computing and Information Science (HCIS) - Springer (Open Access)
- International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
- Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing


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Registered Workshops
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Ubiquitous and Multimedia Application Systems (UMAS 2013)

Abstract
The Ubiquitous and Multimedia Applications Systems covers challenges and advances for presenting research in the design, development, deployment, evaluation and understanding of ubiquitous systems and multimedia application. UMAS 2013 is an interdisciplinary field of research and development that utilizes and integrates pervasive, wireless, embedded, wearable and/or mobile technologies to bridge the gaps between the multimedia digital and physical worlds. UMAS 2013 will bring together researchers and practitioners who are interested in both the technical and applied aspects of Ubiquitous and Multimedia Application Systems. This workshop is in conjunction with GPC-13 conference. The workshop will follow UMAS 2013 instructions for paper submission, review, and session construction. Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of Ubiquitous and Multimedia Application Systems are solicited for submission to the symposium. GPC-13 (http://www.ftrai.org/gpc2013/).

Site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Umasworkshop

Submission System: http://www.editorialsystem.net/umas2013/
Submission Due:
?Full paper submission due: December 15, 2012
Contact:Cheonshik Kim,Sejong University, Korea (mipsan@paran.com)




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Workshop on Future ScienceTechnologies and Applications (FSTA 2013)

Abstract
The Internet, the cellular and the wireless systems are converging now, thus giving birth to the future convergence Internet.The International Workshop on FSTA 2013 brings together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information science, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The workshop on ??future science technologies and applications?? aims to serve as an international forum for researchers and practitioners willing to present their early research results and share experiences in the field of future science and computer, centered on the topics highlighted in the following list.

Call for papers: PDF

Submission System: mail to Prof. Namje Park(namjepark@jejunu.ac.kr)
Submission Due:
?Full paper submission: Nov.15, 2012
Contact:Namje Park, Jeju National University, Korea (namjepark@jejunu.ac.kr)



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The 2013 International Workshop on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (SOFIA 2013)

Abstract
Soft computing (SC) has driven a variety of practical industrial applications, such as advanced manufacturing, smart grids, renewable energy systems, intelligent control systems, decision support system, etc. As main SC technologies include evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy logics, Bayesian network, knowledge based systems and other machine learning and search heuristic algorithms that resemble biological processes, it has received much attention from a variety of areas in electrical engineering and computer science. It is anticipated that SC will continue to play an important role in the future and to stimulate the creation of many interesting and novel applications.

Call for papers: PDF

Submission System: mail to Chun-Cheng Lin(cclin321@nctu.edu.tw)

Submission Due:
?Full paper submission: Nov.15, 2012
Contact:Chun-Cheng Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
(cclin321@nctu.edu.tw)



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The 3rd International Workshop on Cloud and Grid Interoperability (Cloud&Grid 2013)

Abstract
"Cloud" is a common metaphor for an Internet accessible infrastructure, hiding most of the implementation and deployment details in the field of ICT. Cloud Computing is becoming a scalable services delivery and consumption platform. The backbone behind Cloud Computing includes Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualization of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. Cloud computing has been envisaged to be one of the main stream powering technologies of future ICT and next generation network. The Cloud&Grid-13 focus on Interoperability issues of grid and computing domain. It mainly focus on designing interoperable components, experiences and lessons learnt from developing interoperable services in the cloud and grid environment. This workshop aims at providing a forum to bring together researchers for sharing and exchanging cloud and Grid computing related research, technologies, experience, and lessons for building clouds of interoperability and coordination capabilities and services. We believe this workshop will be a place to help the research community to define their novel ideas in the current state of grid-cloud interoperability issues. In addition the workshop will help to define the future goals and services that cloud needs to support in various intensive commercial and enterprise application.

Site: http://web.ftrai.org/cloudgrid2013

Submission System: http://www.editorialsystem.net/cloudgrid2013/

Full paper submission: Nov.5, 2012
Contact:James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, SeoulTech, Korea (parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com)



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Workshop on Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems-GPC 2013 (DATICS-GPC 2013)

Abstract
DATICS Workshops were initially created by a network of researchers and engineers both from academia and industry in the areas of Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems. Recently, DATICS has been extended to the fields of Communication, Computer Science, Software Engineering and Information Technology. The main target of DATICS-GPC 2013 is to bring together software/hardware engineering researchers, computer scientists, practitioners and people from industry to exchange theories, ideas, techniques and experiences related to all aspects of DATICS.

Site: http://datics.org/datics-gpc-2013

Submission System: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daticsgpc2013
Paper Submission Due: October 30, 2012
Contact:info@datics.org




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Venue
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Daegu Metropolitan City
http://english.daegu.go.kr
http://www.lifeinkorea.com/travel2/Taegu


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Contact Information
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If you have any questions about the CFPs and papers submission,
please email to Prof. James J. Park (parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com) and
Prof. Cheonshik Kim (mipsan@paran.com)


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