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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2014 6th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures,
Algorithms and Programming (PAAP 2014)

Beijing, China, July 11-13, 2014
Web Site: http://www.paap2014.org

Paper Submission Page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paap2014
Submission Due: March 15, 2014

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society
and submitted to the indexing of EI. Selected papers will be invited to be extended
and published in special issues of some SCI/SCIE/EI Indexed journals, including
Computers and Electrical Engineering (SCI),
Computer Science and Information Systems (SCI), Fundamenta Informaticae (SCI),
Journal of Tsinghua University (EI), International Journal of Big Data Intelligence (EI).
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AIMS AND SCOPE
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Following the successful PAAP'08 in Hefei, PAAP'09 in Nanning, PAAP'10 in Dalian, and PAAP'11 in Tianjin,
PAAP'12 in Taipei, the Sixth International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming
(PAAP 2014) will take place in China's capital city Beijing during July 11-13, 2014. PAAP 2014 will provide
a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present their research results and development
activities in all aspects of parallel architectures, algorithms and programming techniques.

PAAP 2014 is sponsored by NSFC, Beijing Jiaotong University, IEEE Technical Committee for Parallel Processing.
We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:

-Architectures:
Multi/many-core architectures
Interconnection networks
Cluster, grid and cloud computing systems
Network-on-chip architectures
Survivable and safety-critical systems
Ubiquitous computing systems
Sensor, wireless and RFID systems
Reconfigurable architectures
Self-healing, self-protecting network systems

-Algorithms:
Combinatorial and graph algorithms
Numeric algorithms
Task mapping and job scheduling
Parallel/distributed databases and knowledge discovery
High-performance scientific computing
Resource allocation and management
Power-aware Computing
Secure distributed computing
Network routing and traffic control

-Parallel Programming:
Multi/many-core programming
Parallel programming theory and models
Formal methods and verification
Middleware for parallel systems
Parallel programming languages
Parallel compilers and runtime systems
Performance analysis, debugging and optimization
Parallel libraries and application frameworks

-High Performance System Design:
Operating systems for parallel/distributed systems
High-performance computer arithmetic
Memory hierarchy and caching
Performance tuning, optimization and profiling
Human-computer interaction in parallel/distributed systems
Photonic and quantum computing
Media computing in parallel/distributed systems
Software engineering for parallel/distributed systems

-Privacy and Security:
Cloud security
Data privacy protection
Cryptography
Intrusion detection
Copyright protection
Access control
Data provenance
Trusted computing

-Big Data Processing:
Mass data stream processing in clouds
Big data models and computation theory
Big data fusion
Dimension reduction for large data sets
Big data placement, scheduling and optimization
Big data mining
Multi-source data processing and integration
Big data workflow processing

Submission Information
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Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. Papers
will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of
presentation. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author,
and must not exceed 10 pages of single column, or 6 pages of double column, including tables and
figures. Submissions imply the willingness of at least one author to register, attend the conference,
and present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF/Word format through EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paap2014

Submissions should follow the template of IEEE conference proceedings available at
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting. The conference proceedings will be published by
IEEE Computer Society. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for submission to special
issues of international journals.


Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2014
Author notification: April 1, 2014
Camera-ready version due: April 20, 2014

For further details on the conference organization, please refer to the website: www.paap2014.org

Contact Us
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If you have any questions about the conference, please email to
paap2014@m.bjtu.edu.cn or paap2014info@gmail.com.