Call for Papers: The 2008 International Conference on Parallel andDistributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'08), USA, July 2008

Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with
those who might be interested.

Best regards,

A. M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, PDPTA'08
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Extended Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2008

C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
PDPTA'08

Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

Academic Sponsors include research labs at: Harvard University,
MIT, UCLA, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas
at Austin, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emory University,
University of North Dakota, PSU/Saudi, Russian Academy of Sciences,
European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics, and others
(see below). Corporate sponsors include Google, Salford Systems,
and NIIT.

You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

PDPTA'08 will be held in Las Vegas, USA, July 14-17, 2008. The
conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates)
with WORLDCOMP'08 (The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

O Parallel/Distributed architectures:
Clusters and parallel systems of various topologies,
supercomputers, shared memory, distributed memory,
general- and special-purpose architectures,
instructional level parallelism, ...
O Parallel/Distributed applications:
Numerical computations/methods, neural networks and
fuzzy logic, medicine, remote sensing, computer
vision, computer graphics and virtual reality,
parallel/distributed databases, banking, financial
markets, high-performance computational biology, ...
O Networks and interconnection networks:
Scalable networks, reconfigurable networks, routing
issues, general-purpose network performance for
distributed applications, network protocols, internet
technology, optical interconnections and computing,
novel network topologies, ...
O Reliability and fault-tolerance:
Software and hardware fault-tolerance (system- and
application-level), fault diagnosis, fault-tolerance
measurement.
O Building block processors:
Applications of processors that can be used as basic
building blocks for multicomputer systems.
O Real-time and embedded systems:
Small-scale parallel systems for high-performance
control, data acquisition, and analysis; configuration,
routing, scheduling, performance guarantees, ...
O Parallel/Distributed algorithms:
Algorithms exploiting clusters and general-purpose
distributed and parallel systems, new vector/pipeline
issues, shared memory, distributed memory, virtual memory, ...
O Multimedia communications, systems, and applications:
High-speed networking, multimedia architectures and
protocols, multimedia applications, quality of service
support, operating system and networking support,
internet tools and applications, audio/video delivery
over the internet, ...
O Software tools and environments for parallel and
distributed platforms: operating systems, compilers,
languages, debuggers, monitoring tools, software
engineering on parallel/distributed systems, ...
O High-performance computing in computational science:
intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research
programs and applications.
O Performance Evaluation and Management of Wireless Networks
and Distributed Systems
O FPGA-based design
O Performance analysis, evaluation, prediction, ...
O Nanotechnology in HPC
O High-performance mobile computation and communication.
O Object oriented technology and related issues.
O Scheduling and resource management.
O Petri Nets: theory, analysis, tools and applications.
O Web-based simulation and computing.
O Other aspects and applications relating to high-performance
computations.
O Emerging technologies

Web site of PDPTA'08:
http://www.world-academy-of-science....rences/pdpta08
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org


PURPOSE / HISTORY:

PDPTA'08 is part of WORLDCOMP'08. WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
and applied computing; it is composed of a number of joint
conferences.
Many of these joint conferences are the premier conferences for
presentation of advances in their respective fields. We anticipate
to have over 2,600 attendees from over 80 countries participating
in
the 2008 event. PDPTA'08 will be composed of research
presentations,
keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions,
and poster presentations.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
(about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
Prof. H. R. Arabnia by March 10, 2008 (hra@cs.uga.edu). email
submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable. All
reasonable
typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
to prepare their papers for publication.)

The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
to
7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously
published
or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page
of
the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name,
affiliation,
postal address, and email address of each author as well as the
name
of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, PDPTA'08).
The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
content of the paper.

Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
independent of the conference program committee. The referees'
evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program
committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the
track.
The track chairs will make the final decision.


IMPORTANT DATES:

March 10, 2008: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 7, 2008: Notification of acceptance
April 28, 2008: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
July 14-17, 2008: The 2008 International Conference on Parallel
and Distributed Processing Techniques and
Applications (PDPTA'08)


GENERAL CO-CHAIR / COORDINATOR:

Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
The University of Georgia
Department of Computer Science
415 Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

Tel: (706) 542-3480
Fax: (706) 542-2966
E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu


LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

PDPTA will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada,
USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is a mega
hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and
from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions,
including: spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool,
lighted tennis courts, nightly shows, a number of restaurants, ...
The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
reasonable.
The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions.


MULTICONFERENCE SPONSORS (this is a partial list):

Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

--> Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
--> International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
--> Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
USA
--> Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota,
USA
--> Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
--> BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia
Institute
of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
--> Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory,
University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
--> Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University
and
MIT, USA
--> Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
--> Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
--> Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
--> Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
--> The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
--> PSU - Prince Sultan University
--> Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
--> NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and
Geometry, TU Vienna

Corporate Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

--> Google, Inc.
--> Salford Systems
--> NIIT Technologies

Other Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

--> High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
--> International Technology Institute (ITI)
--> GridToday - enewsletter focused on Grid, SOA, Virtualization,
Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented IT
--> HPCwire - The Leading Source for Global News and Information
Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing
--> Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK