Below
please find the first CALL FOR PAPERS of NPC 2007 (IFIP International Conference
on Network and Parallel Computing). Please feel free to distribute this CFP to
those who might have interest.
Best
regards,
NPC
2007 Secretariat
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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
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and the work must not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere.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,
IMPORTANT
Dates
Submission
deadline:
Author
notification:
Camera-ready
version due:
Conference:
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,
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,
Program
Co-Chairs
Chris
Jesshope,
Keqiu Li,
DLMU,
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
Mingyu Lu, DLMU,
Publicity
Co-Chairs
Wenbin
Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Alex Shafarenko,
University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Organization
Co-Chairs
Zhan
Yang, DLMU,
Weishi
Zhang, DLMU,
Bo
Jiang, DLMU,
Finance
Chair
Ruixue
Xu, DLMU,
Registration
Chair
Zhenjun
Du, DLMU,
Industry
Sponsorship Co-Chairs
Bo
Jiang, DLMU,
Local
Arrangement Chair
Guanyu
Li, DLMU,
Internet
Chairs
Zhihuai
Li, DLMU,
Jianping
Jiang, DLMU,
Conference
Secretariat (npc2007@dlmu.edu.cn)
Zhiying
Cao, DLMU,
Hong Ye,
DLMU,
Program
Committee Members
Ajith
Abraham,
Ishfaq
Ahmad,
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
Renato
J. Figueiredo, University of Maribor, USA
Bjoern Franke, University of
Edinburgh, UK
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
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
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
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
Xicheng Wang, Dalian University of Technology,
China
Xingwei Wang, Northeastern University, 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,
Hai Zhuge,
Institute of Computing Technology, CAS,
Albert Y. Zomaya, The
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