Best regards,

NPC 2007 Secretariat

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The goal of IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2007) is to establish an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present their excellent ideas and experiences in all system fields of network and parallel computing. NPC 2007 will be held in Dalian, China. You can find more information from the conference homepage (http://www.dlmu.edu.cn/npc2007/).

 

 

PAPER Submission Guidelines

 

Papers are solicited reporting original results and experience. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF, PostScript, or MS Word format, and the work must not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Detailed submission instructions will be posted on the conference web site. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work.

 

It is planned that the conference proceedings of NPC 2007 will be published in English by LNCS (approval pending), which is indexed by SCI and extended versions of some selected papers are to be published in a special issue of international journals (International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES)). For more information, please contact the program co-chair Dr. Keqiu Li (Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, China) by email at keqiu@dlmu.edu.cn

or npc2007@dlmu.edu.cn..

 

 

IMPORTANT Dates

Submission deadline:          March 31, 2007

Author notification:           May 26, 2007

Camera-ready version due:   June 16, 2007

Conference:                      September 18-21, 2007

 

 

TOPICS of Interest include the following tracks, but are not limited to:

 

Track I: Network applications

Peer-to-peer computing

Cluster and Grid computing

Wireless computing

Ubiquitous computing

Internet Computing

Optical networks

Multimedia services and applications

 

Track II: Network technologies

Communication technology

Web technology

Network storage

Network reliability, security, and dependability

Network algorithms

Scheduling and load balancing

 

Track III: Network and parallel architectures

Shared and distributed memory

Nontraditional processor technologies

Network and interconnect architecture

Parallel I/O and storage systems

System design issues for low power and energy efficiency

Performance modeling and evaluation

Multicore design issues

OS support in hardware

 

Track IV: Parallel and distributed software

Parallel programming models, languages and compilers

Runtime systems

Operating systems

Resource management

Middleware

Data mining

Programming environments and tools

 

 

BEST Paper Award

The NPC 2007 program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award and two winners for the Excellent Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible), one winner for the Best Student Paper Award and two winners for the Excellent Student Paper Award (only the regular papers whose first author is a full-time student are eligible). The winner of each award will be presented at the conference with an award certificate, a cheque of US $200 and an invitation to submit an extended version of the award-winning paper for the consideration of publishing in an international journal.

 

 

ORGANIZING Committees

 

Honorary Chair

Zuwen Wang, President, Dalian Maritime University (DLMU), China

 

General Co-Chairs

Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California, Irvine, USA

Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

 

Steering Committee Chair

Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing Corporation, USA

 

Program Co-Chairs

Chris Jesshope, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Keqiu Li, DLMU, China (keqiu@dlmu.edu.cn)

 

Program Vice-Chairs

Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, USA

Skevos Evripidou, the University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Susumu Horiguchi, Tohoku University, Japan

 

Publication Co-Chairs

Minyi Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan

Mingyu Lu, DLMU, China

 

Publicity Co-Chairs

Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Alex Shafarenko, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Yang Xiang, Central Queensland University, Australia

Organization Co-Chairs

Zhan Yang, DLMU, China

Weishi Zhang, DLMU, China

Bo Jiang, DLMU, China

 

Finance Chair

Ruixue Xu, DLMU, China

 

Registration Chair

Zhenjun Du, DLMU, China

 

Industry Sponsorship Co-Chairs

Bo Jiang, DLMU, China

 

Local Arrangement Chair

Guanyu Li, DLMU, China

 

Internet Chairs

Zhihuai Li, DLMU, China

Jianping Jiang, DLMU, China

 

Conference Secretariat (npc2007@dlmu.edu.cn)

Zhiying Cao, DLMU, China

Hong Ye, DLMU, China

 

 

Program Committee Members

Ajith Abraham, Chun-Ang University, Korea

Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Shoukat Ali, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan

Ramon Beivide, University of Cantabria, Spain

Jacir L. Bordim, University of Brasilia, Brazil

Luc Bouge, IRISA/ENS Cachan, France

Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Wentong Cai,  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Ralph Castain, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Rong Chen, DLMU, China

Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China

Zhongxian Chi, Dalian University of Technology, China

Jong-Deok Choi, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Alain Darte, LIP, France

Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan

Chen Ding, University of Rochester, USA

Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China

Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College, UK

Christine Eisenbeis, INRIA, France

Jianping Fan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Renato J. Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA

Bjoern Franke, University of Edinburgh, UK

Kei Hiraki, University of Tokyo, Japan

Wen Gao, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China

Cecile Germain, University of Paris Sud, France

Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chuang Hua University, Taiwan

Zhiyi Huang, The University of Otago, New Zealand

Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University, USA

Cruz Izu, Adelaide University, Austraia

Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State Univeristy, USA

Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Paul H. J. Kelly, Imperial College, UK

Jin Suk Kim, University of Seoul, Korea

Mario Koppen, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany

Viktor Korneev, R&D Institute "Kvant", Russia

Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Ricky Kwok, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Deok-Gyu Lee, Soonchunhyang University, Korea

Myungho Lee, Myongji University, Korea

Deying Li, Renmin University of China, China

Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA

Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan

Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Xingsi Li, Dalian University of Technology, China

Xiuqi Li, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Fangai Liu, Shan Dong Normal University, China

Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Weijiang Liu, DLMU, China

Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China

Geyong Min ,University of Bradford, UK

Soo-Mook Moon, Seoul National University, Korea

John Morris, Auckland University, New Zealand

John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland

Yoichi Muraoka, Waseda University, Japan

Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan

Jun Ni, The University of Iowa, USA

Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA

Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea

Andy Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Depei Qian, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Wenyu Qu, University of Tokyo, Japan

Felix Rauch, NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia

Wolfgang Rehm, TU Chemnitz, Germany

Arnold Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

Ulrich Rude, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway

Stanislav G. Sedukhin, University of Aizu, Japan

Selvakennedy Selvadurai, University of Sydney, Australia

Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Xiaowei Shen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

Sven-bodo Sholz, Hertfordshire University, UK

Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada

Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto University, Japan

Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France

Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy

Guozhen Tan, Dalian University of Technology, China

David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Guoku Teng, DLMU, China

Mitchell D. Theys, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Xinmin Tian, Intel Corporation, USA

Theo Ungerer, University fo Augsberg, Germany

Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Guojun Wang, Central South University, China

Xiangyang Wang, Liaoning Normal University, China

Xicheng Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China

Xingwei Wang, Northeastern University, China

Xingyuan Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China

Ian Watson, Manchester University, UK

Paul Werstein, The University of Otago, New Zealand

Weng-Fai Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Di Wu, Dalian University of Technology, China

Nong Xiao, National University of Defense Technology, China

Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA

Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA

Lixin Zhang, IBM Austin Research Laboratory, USA

Zixiang Zhao, DLMU, China

Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China

Si Qing Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Bing Bing Zhou, University of Sydney, Australia

Hai Zhuge, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China

Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

 

ABOUT Dalian

Dalian, a well-known city with a longstanding history and civilization, lies in the Northeast of China. Dalian, named as “Northern Hong Kong of China”, has a world-class reputation for its seafood, shopping, and sightseeing. September is the best season for tourism and enjoying seafood in one year. Dalian is also well connected to major cities in the world via air.