CALL  FOR  PAPERS

                              PDPTA'12
             The 2012 International Conference on Parallel
         and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

                  July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each paper. The proceedings of the congress that PDPTA is part of,
enjoys a high number of citations; over 25,000 citations so far.


IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 26, 2012:    Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012:  The 2012 International Conference on Parallel and
                   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
                   (PDPTA'12)


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

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  Parallel/Distributed architectures:
   Clusters and parallel systems of various topologies, supercomputers,
   shared memory, distributed memory, general- and special-purpose
   architectures, instructional level and thread level parallelism,
   petascale and exascale systems design.
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:
   Stability, scalability, and fault-tolerance of algorithms and data
   structures, scheduling, and load balancing. 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 applications.
O  Performance evaluation and management of wireless networks
   and distributed systems.
O  FPGA, multicore, GPU, SOC and applications.
O  Ultra low power data-driven systems.
O  Performance analysis, evaluation, prediction, ...
O  Nanotechnology in HPC.
O  RAID systems.
O  High-performance mobile computation and communication.
O  Object oriented technology and related issues.
O  Petri Nets: theory, analysis, tools and applications.
O  Web-based simulation and computing (planetlab, ...)
O  Grid and Cloud computing.
O  Other aspects and applications relating to HPC
O  Emerging technologies


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by March 12, 2012 and they must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures,
tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
author. 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. The name of the conference (ie, PDPTA) that the paper is
being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of the
paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final
Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE
style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be
charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve
seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review
process. In addition, all papers whose authors include a member of the
conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded
review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be
considered for discussion/panels).

Authors whose papers are accepted will be instructed to upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting. At this
point, authors will be required to attest to the originality of their work
(ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized and the paper does not
suffer from any acts of plagiarism.)

Proceedings of PDPTA will be published in printed conference books (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each
published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The
Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for
Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core scientific
literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals; only about 9%
are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among the 9% - accessable
from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN
International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings
will also be included in EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, PDPTA
proceedings were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be
sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier.
The printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at
the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a
number of research books contracted with various publishers. These books
will be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will
be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference.

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions
that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the submission
is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This
paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be
published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

PDPTA is one of the premier research conferences in parallel and distributed
processing. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest
annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more attendees from
over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed of research presentations,
keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have
included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California,
Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology),
Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of
Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of
Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California,
Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC),
Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.),
Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K.
Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program
Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT &
Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster
U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director,
CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice
President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), and many
other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos available at:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for
cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. 39581


CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC co-sponsors of the last offering of
the congress (2011) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; University
of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; University of Naples
Federico II, Italy; University of Naples Parthenope, Italy; Second
University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M University Com.; University
of North Dakota; and others. CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large
included (a partial list): Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera
Corporation; Pico Computing; SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High
Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano); International Society
of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences
and Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; UK
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Scientific
Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without Boundaries; and others.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

The proceedings of WORLDCOMP enjoys a high number of citations (PDPTA
is an important part of WORLDCOMP. As of February 28, 2012, papers published
in each track of the proceedings have received the following number of
citations: 252 citations to BIOCOMP papers; 116 to CDES papers; 65 to CGVR
papers; 55 to CSC papers; 271 to DMIN papers; 69 to EEE papers; 1289 to
ERSA papers; 504 to ESA papers; 176 to FCS papers; 9416 to FECS papers; 157
to GCA papers; 75 to GEM papers; 2277 to ICAI papers; 1539 to ICOMP papers;
1247 to ICWN papers; 571 to IKE papers; 255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV
papers; 5239 to PDPTA papers; 496 to SAM papers; 1390 to SERP papers; and
177 to SWWS papers. In total, over 25,000 citations have been made (so far)
to papers published in the proceedings of WORLDCOMP conferences.

USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. Web site of PDPTA'12:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/pdpta12
2. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at:
   http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
3. This announcement contains updated and current information (correct
   as of the date of this message). The information that appears in this
   announcement supersedes earlier ones.

CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: editor@world-comp.org