PDP 2010 - The 18th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing

Call for papers (PDF)

We invite you to consider submitting papers to the 18th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, that will be held at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy from 17th to 19th of February, 2010.

Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone impressive change over recent years. New architectures and applications have rapidly become the central focus of the discipline. These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of parallel and distributed technologies with other rapidly evolving technologies such as telecommunications and multimedia. It is of paramount importance to review and assess these new developments in comparison with recent research achievements in the well-established areas of parallel and distributed computing, from industry and the scientific community.

The PDP 2010 aims to provide a forum for the presentation of these and other issues through original research presentations and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and new ideas at the highest technical level. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Distributed Systems: Distributed databases, distributed object-oriented systems, distributed operating systems, heterogeneous distributed systems, distributed algorithms, distributed shared memory systems
• Network-based Computing: Web computing, cluster computing, cloud computing, computational grids, data grids, semantic grid, mobile agents, distributed web services, security in distributed systems
• Parallel Computer Systems: massively parallel machines, interconnection networks, embedded parallel and distributed systems, fault-tolerance, memory organization, support for parallel I/O, multi/many core systems, GPU and FPGA based parallel systems
• Models and Tools for Parallel Programming Environments: performance prediction and analysis, simulation, knowledge-based parallel program development, visualization tools
• Advanced Applications: multi-disciplinary applications, parallel databases, computations over irregular domains, numerical applications with multi-level parallelism, real time distributed applications, distributed business applications
• Languages, Compilers and Runtime Support Systems: task and data parallel languages, functional and logic languages, object-oriented languages, dependability issues, scheduling and load balancing, task and object migration

Special Sessions

The following special sessions will be organized within the conference (list to be completed):

• Next Generation of Web Computing , chair Konrad Klockner
• Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Peer-to-peer environments, chair Didier El Baz
• Grid, Parallel and Distributed Bioinformatics Applications, chairs Ivan Merelli and Daniel D'Agostino
• Grid and High Performance Computing for Nuclear Fusion Applications, chair Rainer Stotzka and Jan Westerholm
• On-chip Parallel and Network-based Systems , chairs Sarbazi-Azad and N. Bagherzadeh
• Virtualisation in Distributed Systems , chair Thierry Delaittre
• Parallel algorithms and software for sparse linear algebra computations chairs P. D'Ambra and D. Di Serafino
• Scalable Data Intensive Applications chairs S. Orlando and R. Perego
• Security in Networked and Distributed Systems (SNDS 2010) chair Igor Kotenko

Papers can be submitted either to conference main track or to one of these Special Sessions. All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings. Links to web pages relative to the Special Sessions will be avaialable soon.

Venue

PDP 2009 will take place at the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, one of the most ancient university in Italy, with the most ancient Computer Science Dept. in Italy. We invite you to submit your papers and to join the conference in Pisa, the town of Galileo and of the leaning tower.

Paper submission is closed (referee process ongoing now)

Important dates:

(special sessions may have a different deadline for paper submission, please check the special session home pages listed at the PDP2010 CFP page)

Program Co-Chairs:

Marco Danelutto, University of Pisa

Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar

Julien Bourgeois, University of Franche-Comte