The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA-15)
http://comnet.aalto.fi/ISPA2015/

20-22 August 2015, Helsinki, Finland

Latest news:
6 Keynotes and 2 workshops announced

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015 -) extended to April 13, 2015 (FIRM)
Authors Notification: May 31, 2015
Final Manuscript Due: July 1, 2015


ISPA-15 (13th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines).
The 13th ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2014 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. ISPA-15 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. ISPA-15 is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to

Base Technologies and Tools Track
- Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC
- Parallel and distributed algorithms
- Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development
- Novel parallel programming paradigms
- Programming models for cloud services and applications
- Code generation and optimization
- Compilers for parallel computers
- Middleware and tools
- Scheduling and resource management
- Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations
- Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security

Parallel and Distributed Systems and Architectures Track
- Cloud computing and data center technology
- Virtualization of computing
- Migration of computations
- Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability
- Energy management and Green Computing
- Wireless and mobile networks
- Internet-Of-Things (IoT)
- Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems

Applications of Parallel and Distributed Processing Track
- High-performance scientific and engineering computing
- Grid and cluster computing
- Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
- Databases, data mining, and data management
- Big data and business analytics
- Scientific cloud systems and services
- Internet computing and web services
- Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing
- Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications
- Software Defined Networks and its applications


Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper at https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ISPA2015/paper_submission.html
Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to high quality international journals.


Keynotes (in alphabetical order)

Prof. Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Mr. Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure, Finland
Mr. Lauri Oksanen, VP Research and Technology, Nokia Networks
Prof. Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
Prof. Witold Pedrycz, IEEE fellow, EiC of Information Sciences, Canada Research Chair
Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, IEEE fellow, IEEE Vice President on Technical Activities, EiC of IEEE Systems Journal


General Chairs
Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland
Zhiyong Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Chairs
Simone Campanoni, Harvard University, USA
Antonio Fernández Anta, IMDEA, Spain
Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden

Technical Program Committee
Ittai Abraham, VMware Research, USA
Javier Alonso, Duke U., USA
Ivan Beretta, EPFL, Switzerland
Vicent Cholvi, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Albert Cohen, INRIA, France
Chryssis Georgiou, U Cyprus, Cyprus
Seth Gilbert, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Vincent Gramoli, NICTA and University of Sydney, Australia
Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland
Seif Haridi, KTH, Sweden
Ernesto Jimenez, U Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Timothy Jones, University of Cambridge, UK
Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Hanjun Kim , Postech University, Korea
Dejan Kostic, KTH, Sweden
Jae W. Lee, SungKyunKwan University, Korea
Shuaiwen Leon Song , Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA
Alessia Milani, ENSEIRB-MATMECA, France
Miguel A. Mosteiro, Kean University, USA
Nicolas Nicolaou, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain
Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos, Lund University, Sweden
Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers U, Sweden
Antoniu Pop, Manchester University, UK
Krishna Rangan, Intel, USA
Erven Rohou, INRIA, France
Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Mordo Shalom, Tel-Hai Academic College & Technion, Israel
Christopher Thraves, LAAS-CNRS, France
Johan Tordsson, Umea University, Sweden
Felix Winterstein, Imperial College, UK
Fa Zhang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Steering Co-Chairs
Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (Chair)
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Chair)

Publicity Chairs
Hsi-Ya Chang, National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), Taiwan
Matti Hämäläinen, Digile, Finland
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Workshop Chairs
Hannu-Matti Järvinen, TUT, Finland
Peng Zhang, XUPT, China

Finance Chair
Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland

Web Chair
Jesús Llorente Santos, Aalto University, Finland


Steering Committee
Please see http://comnet.aalto.fi/ISPA2015/


Workshops
- RePara 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ISPA2015/repara2015/)
The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Reengineering for Parallelism in Heterogeneous Parallel Platforms

- PBio (2015 https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ISPA2015/pbio2015/)
The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics