First Call for Papers
ISPDC 2010 July 7-9 Istanbul, Turkey
9th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing
http://www.ispdc.org

We are proud to announce the 2010 edition of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC'2010), which on its 9th year will take place in Istanbul, Turkey - designated as the 2010 European Capital of Culture by the European Union.
The increasing computational requirements of many applications require the development of new algorithms and architectures for parallel and distributed computing. The ISPDC conference serves as a forum for engineers and researchers to present and discuss new ideas and system technology, with an interactive and friendly, but strongly professional atmosphere.
The previous symposia were held with success in: Iasi, Romania (2002), Ljubljana, Slovenia (2003), Cork, Ireland (2004), Lille, France (2005), Timisoara, Romania (2006), Hagenberg, Austria (2007) , Krakow, Poland (2008) and Lisbon, Portugal(2009).
Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers (not being considered for publication elsewhere) describing new theoretical and/or experimental research. The conference scope will be focused on but not limited to the following topics:

• Parallel Computing
• Cluster Computing
• Grid and Cloud Computing
• Multicore Architectures and Algorithms
• GPU Programming
• Web Services and Internet Computing
• Cooperative and Collaborative Computing
• Peer-to-peer Computing
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
• New Parallel System Concepts and Architectures
• Distributed Systems Methodology and Networking
• Software Agents and Multi-agent Systems
• Algorithms, Models and Formal Verification
• Parallel Programming Paradigms and APIs
• Tools and Environments for Parallel Program Analysis
• Operating Systems for Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Task Scheduling and Load Balancing
• Performance Management in Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Parallel, Distributed and Mobile Databases
• Distributed Software Components
• Real-time Distributed and Parallel Systems
• Security in Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Fault Tolerance in Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Bio-inspired Parallel Algorithms
• Parallel Scientific Computing and Large Scale Simulations
• Parallel and Distributed Applications
• Network convergence
• Urban networks and applications
• Vehicular networks

Authors are invited to electronically submit papers of up to 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society style (instructions in DOC/PDF format). The proceedings will be published by the Conference Publishing Services. A set of the best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming published by Springer.

Important Dates
• Paper Submission Date: Feb. 15, 2010
• Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2010
• Camera Ready Papers: April 5, 2010
• Conference Date: July 7-9, 2010

Conference Co-Chairs
• Can Ozturan - Bogazici Univ., Turkey
• Alper Sen - Bogazici Univ., Turkey

Program Chair
• Cevdet Aykanat – Bilkent Univ., Turkey

Finance Chair
• Arda Yurdakul – Bogazici Univ., Turkey

Organizing Committee
• Ali Ecder - Bogazici Univ., Turkey
• Ali Vahit Sahiner – Bogazici Univ., Turkey
• Erhan Turan - Bogazici Univ., Turkey
• Turgay Altilar – Istanbul Technical Univ. Turkey

Steering Committee
• Bertil Folliot - Univ. of Paris, France
• Dan Grigoras - Univ. College Cork, Ireland
• Dana Petcu - Western Univ. of Timisoara and Inst. e-Austria, Timisoara, Romania
• Isaac Scherson - Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
• John Morrison - University College Cork, Ireland
• Leonel Sousa - INESC-ID/IST, Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
• Marek Tudruj - Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish Japanese Institute Information Technology,Warsaw, Poland