PDCAT-11 Call for Papers
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The 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT-11)
20-22 October, 2011, Gwangju, Korea

http://www.ftrai.org/pdcat2011
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Introduction
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The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT) is a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest research, results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of parallel and distributed computing.
Following PDCAT’00 in Hong Kong, PDCAT’01 in Taipei, PDCAT’02 in Kanazawa, Japan, PDCAT’03 in Chengdu, China, PDCAT’04 in Singapore, PDCAT’05 in Dalian, China! , PDCAT’06 in Taipei, Taiwan, PDCAT’07 in Adelaide, Australia, PDCAT’08 in Dunedin, New Zealand, PDCAT’09 in Hiroshima, Japan, PDCAT’10 in Wuhan, China, PDCAT’11 will be held in Gwangju, Korea.


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Topics
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Networking and Architectures:
- Interconnection networks 1-01
- Parallel/distributed architectures
- Heterogeneous and multimedia Systems 1-02
- ATM networks 1-03
- Reliability, and fault-tolerance 1-04
- Ubiquitous computing systems 1-05
- Computer networks 1-06
- Communication and telecommunication 1-07
- Wireless networks and mobile computing 1-08
- Optical networks 1-09
- Cloud/Grid computing system! s 1-10
- Reconfigurable architecture 1-11

2. Software Syst ems and Technologies:
- Formal methods and programming languages 2-01
- Internet computing 2-02
- Image processing and computer vision 2-03
- Agent technologies 2-04
- Operating systems 2-05
- Software tools and environments 2-06
- Parallelizing compilers 2-07
- Web services 2-08
- Component-based and OO Technology 2-09
- Simulation and Visualization 2-10

3. Algorithms and Applications:
- Parallel/distributed algorithms 3-01
- Task mapping and job scheduling 3-02
- Distributed data and knowledge based systems 3-03
- Image processing and computer graphics 3-04
- High-performance scientific computing 3-05
- Reconfigurable high-performance computing 3-06
- Resource allocation and management 3-07
- Network routing and communication algorithms 3-08
- Bioinformatics 3-09
- Database applications and data mining 3-10
- Intelligent computing and neural networks 3-11

4. Security and Privacy:
-Access control and authorization 4-01
-Authentication, biometrics, smartcards 4-02
-Distributed systems security 4-03
-Mobile code and mobile agent security 4-04
-RFID applications 4-05
-Privacy preserving computation 4-06
-Applied cryptography 4-07
-Database security 4-08
-Intrusion detection and survivability 4-09
-P2P & ad hoc networks 4-10
-Security protocols 4-11

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Important Dates
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Workshop Proposal: 5, April, 2011
Submission Deadline: 20, May, 2011
Authors Notification: 10, July, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: 1, August, 2011
Conference: 20-22, October, 2011

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Submissions an Proceedings
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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 t! he areas of interest for this conference. Authors should submit a pape r with 4-6 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.
Please use the IEEE Conference Proceedings format (US letter size, available for download here: IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings) for submission. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Press (IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing group) and all papers of the proceedings will be included in the IEEE Xplorer™ (indexed in EI).
Submission system: http://www.editorialsystem.net/pdcat2011

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in PDCAT-11, after further revisions,
will be published in the special issues of the following international journals (TBA).


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Organization (TBA)
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==Steering Chair==
Hong Shen, University of Adelaide, Australia

==General Chairs==
James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
Mark Baker, The University of Reading, UK

==Program Chairs==
Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea
Binod Vaidya, University of Ottawa, Canada
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CYPRUS

==Workshop Chairs==
Jongsung Kim, Kyungnam University, Korea
Weigang Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Stephen Jarvis, University of Warwick, UK

==Publicity Chairs==
Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Teruo Matuzawa, JAIST, Japan
Simon See, Nanyang Techology University, Singapore
Julio Sahuquillo, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

==Invited Speakers==
Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

==International Advisory Committee==
Richard P. Brent, Australian National University, Australia
Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China
Koji Nakano, University of Hiroshima, Japan
Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan
Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea
Raj Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

==Local Arrangement Chairs==
Hang-Bae Chang, Daejin University, Korea
Malrey Lee, ChonBuk National University, Korea

==Registration / Finance Chair==
Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea

==Web and System management Chair==
Yang Sun Lee, Chosun University, Korea


==Program Committee: TBA ==

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Contacts
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If you have any questions about the CFPs and papers submission, please email to Prof. Jong Hyuk Park (parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com) and Prof. Sang-Soo Yeo (ssyeo@msn.com).