================================== IPDPS 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS APRIL 25-29, 2006 RHODES ISLAND, GREECE SPONSORED BY IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY ================================== ==================================

20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium Tuesday, 25 April . Saturday, 29 April 2006 Rodos Palace Resort Hotel & Convention Center Rhodes Island, Greece www.ipdps.org

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing In cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing Hosted by Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (CTI, Greece)

IPDPS 2006 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

IPDPS serves as a forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in the fields of parallel processing and distributed computing. The five-day program will follow the usual format of contributed papers, invited speakers, panels, and commercial participation mid week, framed by workshops held on the first and last days; this year in Greece that will be Tuesday and Saturday. Visit this Web site for regular updates, including the advance program, registration, and accommodations. Send general email inquiries to info@ipdps.org.

================================== ================================== IMPORTANT DATES FOR IPDPS 2006 October 7, 2005 . Final Deadline for Manuscripts December 9, 2005 . Review Decisions Mailed January 21, 2006 . Camera-Ready Papers Due

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Paul Spirakis, CTI & University of Patras, Greece H.J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA

GENERAL VICE-CHAIRS Sotiris Nikoletseas, CTI & University of Patras, Greece Charles Weems, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

PROGRAM CHAIR Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed processing, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Work focusing on emerging technologies is especially welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

o Parallel and distributed algorithms, focusing on issues such as: stability, scalability, and fault tolerance of distributed systems, communication and synchronization protocols, network algorithms, and scheduling and load balancing.

o Applications of parallel and distributed computing, including web applications, peer-to-peer computing, grid computing, scientific applications, and mobile computing.

o Parallel and distributed architectures, including shared memory, distributed memory (including petascale system designs, and architectures with instruction-level and thread-level parallelism), special-purpose models (including signal and image processors, network processors, other special purpose processors), nontraditional processor technologies, network and interconnect architecture, parallel I/O and storage systems, system design issues for low power, design for high reliability, and performance modeling and evaluation.

o Parallel and distributed software, including parallel programming languages and compilers, runtime systems, operating systems, resource management, middleware, libraries, data mining, and programming environments and tools.

----------------- BEST PAPER AWARDS

Awards will be given for one best paper in each of the four conference technical tracks: algorithms, applications, architectures, and software. The selected papers also will be considered for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

-------------------- WHAT/WHERE TO SUBMIT

Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 15 single-spaced pages using 12-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Authors may submit additional material as an appendix to their submission, but there is no guarantee that this material will influence the review process. Files should be submitted in PDF format. Authors must ensure that electronically submitted files are formatted for 8.5x11 inch paper.

Submission procedures will be available via web access at www.ipdps.org sometime after August 1, 2005. Return here after that date for instructions.

Authors who have e-mail access, but not web access, should send an e-mail message to cfp@ipdps.org for an automatic reply that will contain detailed instructions for submission of manuscripts. They should also contact the Program Chair at: ipdps06@ipdps.org.

Authors who have no electronic access (e-mail or web) should contact the Program Chair at: Department of Computer Science; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Amherst, MA 01003, USA.

--------------------- REVIEW OF MANUSCRIPTS

All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in, nor be under consideration for, another conference or workshop, nor for a journal.

Manuscripts must be received by October 7, 2005, by 5 p.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Time. This is a final, hard deadline; to ensure fairness, no extensions will be given.

Notification of review decisions will be mailed by December 9, 2005 (typically electronically).

Camera-ready papers will be due January 21, 2006.

------------- PROGRAM CHAIR Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS --ALGORITHMS Mikhail J. Atallah, Purdue University, USA

--APPLICATIONS David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

--ARCHITECTURES Allan Gottlieb, New York University, USA

--SOFTWARE Laxmikant Kale, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

----------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Gagan AGRAWAL (Ohio State) USA Ishfaq AHMAD (U. Texas/Arlington) USA Shoukat ALI (U. Missouri/Rolla) USA Nancy AMATO (Texas A&M) USA Hagit ATTIYA (The Technion) Israel Eduard AYGUAD. (U. Polit.cnica de Catalunya) Spain Olivier BEAUMONT (U. Bordeaux) France Pete BECKMAN (Argonne National Lab.) USA Michael BENDER (SUNY/Stony Brook) USA Azzedine BOUKERCHE (U. Ottawa) Canada David BROOKS (Harvard) USA Doug BURGER (U. Texas/Austin) USA Rajkumar BUYYA (U. Melbourne) Australia Franck CAPPELLO (INRIA) France Nikos CHRISOCHOIDES (Coll. of William & Mary) USA Guojing CONG (IBM TJ Watson Research Center) USA Toni CORTES (U. Polit.cnica de Catalunya) Spain Karen DEVINE (Sandia National Lab.) USA Guy EVEN (Tel-Aviv U.) Israel Rainer FELDMANN (U. Paderborn) Germany Wu-chun FENG (Los Alamos National Lab.) USA John FEO (Cray Inc.) USA Alfredo FERRO (U. Catania) Italy Pierre FRAIGNIAUD (U. Paris-Sud) France Mark A. FRANKLIN (Washington U.) USA Efstratios GALLOPOULOS (U. Patras) Greece Guang GAO (U. Delaware) USA John GAROFALAKIS (U. Patras & CTI) Greece James R. GOODMAN (U. Auckland) NZ Ananth GRAMA (Purdue) USA Manish GUPTA (IBM) USA Attila GURSOY (Koc U.) Turkey Kei HIRAKI (U. Tokyo) Japan Hiroshi IMAI (U. Tokyo) Japan Mary Jane IRWIN (Penn State) USA Emmanuel JEANNOT (U. H. Poincar. Nancy-l & INRIA) France Christos KAKLAMANIS (U. Patras) Greece Vijay KARAMCHETI (NYU) USA George KARYPIS (U. Minnesota) USA Bradley C. KUSZMAUL (MIT) USA Konrad LAI (Intel Labs) USA Hyunyoung LEE (U. Denver) USA Kai LI (Princeton) USA Keqin LI (SUNY/New Paltz) USA David LOWENTHAL (U. Georgia) USA Paul LU (U. Alberta) Canada Andrew LUMSDAINE (Indiana U.) USA Xiaosong MA (North Carolina State & ORNL) USA Grzegorz MALEWICZ (U. Alabama) USA Allen D. MALONY (U. Oregon) USA Bernard MANS (Macquarie Univ.) Australia Satoshi MATSUOKA (Tokyo Inst. of Technology) Japan Tim MATTSON (Intel) USA Sally A. MCKEE (Cornell) USA Celso MENDES (U. Illinois) USA Ulrich MEYER (Max Planck Inst.) Germany Russ MILLER (SUNY/Buffalo) USA Michael O'BOYLE (U. Edinburgh) UK Kunle OLUKOTUN (Stanford) USA Marios PAPAEFTHYMIOU (U. Michigan) USA Manish PARASHAR (Rutgers) USA Kunsoo PARK (Seoul National U.) Korea Yale N. PATT (U. Texas/Austin) USA Fabrizio PETRINI (Los Alamos National Lab.) USA Cynthia A. PHILLIPS (Sandia National Lab.) USA Beth PLALE (Indiana U.) USA C. Greg PLAXTON (U. Texas/Austin) USA Sushil K. PRASAD (Georgia State) USA Geppino PUCCI (U. Padova) Italy Patrice QUINTON (U. Rennes) France Sanguthevar RAJASEKARAN (U. Connecticut) USA Partha RANGANATHAN (HP Labs) USA Sanjay RANKA (U. Florida) USA Lawrence RAUCHWERGER (Texas A&M) USA Alexander REINEFELD (Zuse Inst.) Germany Adi ROS.N (The Technion) Israel Larry RUDOLPH (MIT) USA P. SADAYAPPAN (Ohio State) USA Subhash SAINI (NASA Ames) USA Pascal SAINRAT (U. Paul Sabatier) France Christian SCHEIDELER (Johns Hopkins) USA Christian SCHINDELHAUER (U. Paderborn) Germany Karsten SCHWAN (Georgia Inst. Technology) USA Peter SLOOT (U. Amsterdam) The Netherlands Per STENSTROM (U. Chalmers) Sweden Quentin F. STOUT (U. Michigan) USA Michela TAUFER (U. Texas/El Paso) USA Patricia J. TELLER (U. Texas/El Paso) USA Denis TRYSTRAM (U. Grenoble) France Dean TULLSEN (U. California/San Diego) USA Mateo VALERO (U. Polit.cnica de Catalunya) Spain Jeffrey VETTER (Oak Ridge National Lab.) USA Uzi VISHKIN (U. Maryland) USA Charles WEEMS (U. Massachusetts) USA Uri WEISER (Intel) Israel Li XIAO (Michigan State) USA Zhiwei XU (Chinese Academy of Sciences) China Yuanyuan YANG (SUNY/Stony Brook) USA Albert Y. ZOMAYA (U. Sydney) Australia

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IPDPS 2006 LOCATION

The 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, hosted by the Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (CTI, Greece), will be held on the Isle of Rhodes in Greece at the Rodos Palace Resort Hotel & Convention Center. Considered a premier European conference site, the hotel tower provides spectacular views of gardens and the blue Aegean Sea alongside its modern conference facilities. Situated on the Mediterranean Sea at the crossroads of two continents, Rodos combines the worldliness of Europe with the mystery of the Orient in an atmosphere that allows visitors to discover ancient Greek cities, a medieval town with its own castle, charming small villages, and sun drenched beaches. Rodos is also one of the most developed islands in the Mediterranean, providing every holiday amenity, including a yachting harbor, entertaining night life, and casino and sports facilities. The Rodos airport has direct flights to major international cities and other Aegean islands as well as many daily flights from Athens International Airport. With 300 sunny days per year, the island holds the Greek record for sunshine, and its remarkably rich legacy in archaeological treasures and developed tourism infrastructure make Rodos a very special place to gather for IPDPS 2006. Plan to arrive early and stay late!

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IPDPS 2006 ORGANIZATION --------------------------------------- GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Paul Spirakis, CTI & University of Patras, Greece H.J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA

GENERAL VICE-CHAIRS Sotiris Nikoletseas, CTI & University of Patras, Greece Charles Weems, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

PROGRAM CHAIR Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

WORKSHOPS COMMITTEE Chair: Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA Vice-Chair: Yuanyuan Yang, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

COMMERCIAL PRESENTATIONS & EXHIBITS CO-CHAIRS John K. Antonio, University of Oklahoma, USA Theodoros Komninos, Computer Technology Institute, Greece

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Shoukat Ali, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

FINANCE CHAIR Bill Pitts, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., USA

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS Susamma Barua, California State University, Fullerton, USA Rozina Efstathiadou, Computer Technology Institute, Greece Lena Gourdoupi, Computer Technology Institute, Greece

PRODUCTION CHAIR Sally Jelinek, Electronic Design Associates, Inc., USA

PUBLICITY COORDINATORS . AMERICAS Bo Hong, Drexel University, USA . ASIA/PACIFIC RIM Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China . EUROPE/AFRICA Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Computer Technology Institute, Greece

STEERING COMMITTEE David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Luc Boug., ENS Cachan & IRISA, Rennes, France K. Mani Chandy, California Institute of Technology, USA Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California, Irvine, USA Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA Joseph JaJa, University of Maryland, USA F. Tom Leighton, MIT, USA Sotiris E. Nikoletseas, CTI & University of Patras, Greece Co-Chair: Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Jos. D.P. Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Behrooz Shirazi, University of Texas at Arlington, USA H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Paul Spirakis, CTI & University of Patras, Greece Hal Sudborough, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Charles Weems, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Co-Chair: George B. Westrom, Future Scientists & Engineers of America, USA

IPDPS 2006 WORKSHOPS

Workshops at IPDPS are held on the first and last day of the symposium. Next year in Greece that will be Tuesday, April 25th and Saturday, April 29th. Workshops are an opportunity to explore special topics, and running a workshop in association with IPDPS offers many advantages. For more information on organizing a workshop, contact Workshops Chair Alan Sussman (als@cs.umd.edu). Workshops already planned for 2006 are listed on the IPDPS Web at www.ipdps.org.

IPDPS 2006 COMMERCIAL PARTICIPATION

There are three exciting forums available for commercial participants to showcase their technologies at IPDPS 2006: (1) Give a presentation in a special Commercial Track, which includes publication of a technical article in the proceedings of the symposium. (2) Offer an evening Commercial Tutorial to provide orientation and training to symposium participants interested in using and/or learning more about your technology. (3) Participate in three days of Commercial Exhibits by having a booth where your company can promote awareness about its recent technological advances in a "walk-up-and-talk" setting with a diverse audience. Participants in one or more of the above events will be designated as Commercial Sponsors and will have their company logo linked on the IPDPS home page. For more detailed information and to reserve your spot, contact one of the Commercial Co-chairs - John K. Antonio (antonio@ou.edu) or Theodoros Komninos (komninos@cti.gr) - as early as possible but no later than January 1, 2006.

IPDPS BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER

These are informal sessions in which a group of researchers can gather for discussions on a topic of mutual interest. BOF space will be available early in the evening and a typical BOF session will last one to two hours. We'll provide the space, you provide the topic and gather the people. Please reserve space in advance by contacting the General Vice Chair Charles Weems (weems@cs.umass.edu). Reservations should be made by January 16, 2006. BOF sessions will be advertised in advance of the meeting on the IPDPS web site and can be linked to a BOF announcement web page. The goal of the BOF sessions is to encourage new collaborations and research directions, to inspire educational initiatives, and to nurture the development of new workshop proposals and other initiatives and interactions within our community.

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