CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper
Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 20, 2018
11:59pm USA Eastern Time zone (EDT)
The 24th
International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
(PDPTA'18)
https://americancse.org/events/csce2018/conferences/pdpta18
https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2018
July 30 -
August 2, 2018, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA
This is an extended submission deadline; however, authors
who have
already submitted papers (before March 31), will receive
decisions
and status/referee reports by around April 15; others by
May 1.
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Corporations who wish to participate in "Career,
Job, & Education
Fair", please see the instructions at the end of
this announcement.
INTRODUCTION:
We anticipate
having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the
Congress that
PDPTA is part of. The congress includes 20 major tracks
(
https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2018 ) composed of: 122
technical,
research, and panel sessions as well as a number of
keynote lectures
and tutorials; all will be held simultaneously,
same location
and dates: July 30 through August 2, 2018. Last year,
the Congress had
attracted speakers/authors and participants
affiliated with
over 169 different universities (including many
from the top 50
ranked institutions), major IT corporations
(including:
Microsoft, Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon,
Yahoo, Samsung,
IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE
Systems,
Hitachi, NTT, ...), major corporations (including: Exxon
Mobil, Johnson
& Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline,
HSBC, Airbus,
Boeing, Hyundai, ...), government research agencies
(NSF, NIH, DoE, US
Air Force, NSA National Security Agency, ...), US
national
laboratories (including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL,
Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, National
Cancer
Institute, NIST, ...), and a number of Venture Capitalists as
well as
distinguished speakers discussing Intellectual Property
issues. Last
year, 55% of attendees were from academia, 24% from
industry; 20%
from government and funding agencies; and 1% unknown.
About half of
the attendees were from outside USA; from 72 nations.
The event is
among the top five largest international annual gathering
of researchers
in computer science, computer engineering and applied
computing. To
get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see
some delegates
photos available at (over 2,000 photos):
http://photos.ucmss.com/
SCOPE: TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED
TO, THE FOLLOWING:
o Big Data and
High-Performance Computing:
Novel
computational methodologies, HPC and scalable algorithms for
enhancing data
quality, models and frameworks for Big Data, graph
algorithms,
computational science, computational intelligence,
Scalable systems
and architectures for Big Data, ...
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 parallelism, ...
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
Energy/power-aware Computing:
Energy-aware
resource management, green computing, energy efficiency
planning,
energy-aware technologies, low power virtualization and
software techniques,
low power logic/circuit/process technology
design, methods
and tools for forecasting, estimating, and validating
power use, ...
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:
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 programs and
applications.
o Performance
Evaluation and Management of Wireless Networks and
Distributed
Systems.
o FPGA-based
Design.
o Performance
Analysis, Evaluation, Prediction, ...
o Nanotechnology
in HPC.
o High-performance
Mobile Computation and Communication.
o Object Oriented
Technology and Related Issues.
o Scheduling and
Resource Management.
o Petri Nets:
Theory, Analysis, Tools and Applications.
o Web-based
Simulation and Computing.
o Cloud Computing.
o Complex Systems,
Theory and Applications.
o Other Aspects
and Applications relating to High-Performance Computations.
o Emerging
Technologies.
KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:
There will be
between 10 and 20 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks;
speakers include
world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured
Keynote Speakers
in recent years have included:
- Prof. David A.
Patterson (pioneer, architecture, UC Berkeley)
- Prof. Ian
Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL)
- The Late Prof.
John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms;
U. of
Michigan)
- Prof. Barry
Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT)
- Prof. John
Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming; Stanford U.)
- Prof. Lotfi A.
Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic, UC Berkeley)
- Dr. Firouz
Naderi (former Head of NASA Mars Exploration Program;
former
Administrator and/or Director of Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA;
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration
- Dr. K. Eric
Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology)
- Prof. Ruzena
Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, UC Berkeley)
- Prof. Viktor
K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California)
- Dr. Jose L.
Munoz (NSF Program Director and CTO of NSF Office of
Cyberinfrastructure)
- Prof. David
Lorge Parnas (pioneer of software engineering)
- Prof. Eugene
H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
Purdue
University)
- Prof. Haym
Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University & former NSF admin)
- Prof. Alfred
Inselberg (Tel Aviv U, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego
Supercomputing
Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of
Parallel
Coordinates and author of textbook)
- Prof. H. J.
Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE
and Professor
of CS; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology
Center
(ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA)
- Prof. Amit
Sheth (LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director,
Ohio Center of
Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis))
- Dr. Leonid I.
Perlovsky (Harvard University and CEO LP Information Tech)
- Dr. James A.
Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence)
- Prof. Diego
Galar (Director & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Lulea University of
Technology,
Sweden)
- Prof. Michael
J. Flynn (Stanford U.; known for Flynn's taxonomy)
- and over 190
other distinguished speakers.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
You are invited
to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be
published in printed conference books (ISBN),
imprinted by the
American Council on Science and Education, and
distributed/published by CSREA (Computer Science Research, Education,
and Applications
Press). The proceedings will also be made available
online. The
printed proceedings/books will be available for
distribution on
site at the conference. The books will be indexed in
science
databases, including EBSCO (www.ebsco.com), one of the
largest subject
index systems, and others. ACM Digital Library is
also including
the titles into its databases as well as ProQuest
indexing
databases and others.
In addition,
like prior years, extended versions of selected papers
(about 40%) will
appear in journals and 12 edited research books;
publishers
include, Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others. Each book
in each series
will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science
indexing
products (which includes: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI
Compendex,
Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com;
and others). See
the web link below for a small subset of such
publications:
(some of these books and journal special issues have
already received
the top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or
identified as
"Highly Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation
index trackers.)
https://americancse.org/events/csce2018/books-journal-special-issues
https://americancse.org/events/csce2018/conferences/biocomp18/publications
Prospective
authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading
them to the
evaluation web site at:
https://american-cse.org/
Submissions must
be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and
must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (7 pages for Regular Research
Papers; 4 pages
for Short Research Papers; 2 pages for Extended
Abstract/Poster
Papers - the number of pages include all figures,
tables, and
references). 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;
these formatting instructions appear at the submission
web site and
they conform to the two-column IEEE style format). Papers
must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for
publication
elsewhere.
The first page
of the paper should include the followings:
- Title of
the paper
- Name,
affiliation, postal address, and email address of each
author
(identify the name of the Contact Author)
- Abstract
(between 100 and 120 words)
- A maximum
of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
work
described in the paper
- Write the
type of the submission as "Regular Research Paper",
"Short
Research Paper", or "Extended Abstract/Poster Paper".
- The actual
text of the paper can start from the first page
(space
permitting).
Submissions
are to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site
portal at
https://american-cse.org/
Type of
Submissions/Papers:
- Full/Regular
Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages):
Regular
Research Papers should provide detail original research
contributions. They must report new research results that
represent a
contribution to the field; sufficient details and
support for
the results and conclusions should also be provided.
The work
presented in regular papers are expected to be at a
stage of
maturity that with some additional work can be published
as journal
papers.
- Short
Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages):
Short
Research Papers report on ongoing research projects. They
should
provide overall research methodologies with some results.
The work
presented in short papers are expected to be at a stage
of maturity
that with some additional work can be published as
regular
papers.
- Extended
Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages):
Poster
papers report on ongoing research projects that are still
in their
infancy (i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend
to provide
research methodologies without yet concrete results.
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 would
be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this
would involve seeking help from additional referees.
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).
CAREER, JOB, & EDUCATION FAIR:
The CSCE 2018
Congress will host its two-day Career, Job, & Education Fair
on July 30 and
July 31, 2018. This annual strategic event provides
congress
attendees and participants with opportunities to connect with
employers and
educators and learn more about career options. Corporations
can also exhibit
their products during the event. Interested parties
should refer to:
https://americancse.org/events/csce2018/career_job_fair
IMPORTANT DATES:
April 20,
2018: Submission of papers:
https://american-cse.org/
- Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages);
- Short Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages);
- Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages)
(Authors who have already submitted papers before
March 31, will receive decisions and status reports
by around April 15; others by May 1.)
May 01,
2018: Notification of acceptance
(+/- two days)
May 15,
2018: Final papers + Copyright +
Registration
July 30 - August
2, 2018:
The 24th International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
(PDPTA'18)
https://americancse.org/events/csce2018/conferences/pdpta18
https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2018
LOCATION:
Luxor in Las
Vegas (renovated)
https://www.luxor.com/en/entertainment.html
CONTACT:
Questions and
inquiries should be sent to:
CSCE'18
Conference Secretariat: cs@american-cse.org
