12th Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) at PDP 2026 (sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: 12th Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) The 34th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Cluj-Napoca (Romania) 25-27 March 2026 https://www.pdp2026.org/hpcms/ Extended Deadline: November 20th, 2025 Contact: William Spataro - spataro@unical.it ************************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE The development of models that allow computers to simulate the evolution of artificial and natural systems is central to advancing knowledge across scientific and engineering disciplines. In recent decades, growing computational power has greatly expanded the scope of such methodologies, enabling their application in research, industry, and the quantitative study of complex systems. This progress has fostered both the extensive use of numerical methods for solving differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, PIC) and the exploration of alternative paradigms such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and Swarm Intelligence. These complementary approaches have proven particularly effective when conventional simulation techniques are constrained by spatial or temporal limitations, opening new possibilities for modelling complex phenomena. Now in its twelfth edition at PDP, the HPCMS Workshop aims to serve as a platform for a multidisciplinary community of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners, and experts from leading universities, institutions, agencies, and companies in Computational Science. Its mission is to foster the exchange of perspectives on trends, challenges, and state-of-the-art advances in computational problems and high-performance computing, with applications spanning engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economics, and beyond. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - High Performance Computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications - Complex systems modelling and simulation - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation - MPI, OpenMP, Sycl and CUDA applications in Computational Science - Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science - High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Performance models and their integration into the design of efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous platforms - Hardware approaches (e.g., FPGAs, Neuromorphic computing, etc) of high performance computing in modeling and simulation - HPC Applications in Quantum Computing (e.g., Optimization and Scheduling, Simulation, etc) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 20 November 2025 (Extended) Acceptance notification: 15 December 2026 Camera ready due: 27 January 2026 Conference: 25 - 27 March 2026 Submission guidelines Authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt) and follow format guidelines found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. For submission, please refer to the Easychair submission system as indicated in the Conference webpage, selecting the "High Performance Computing in Modeling and Simulation (HPCMS) submission link (https://www.pdp2026.org/hpcms/). Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries. Chairs William Spataro - University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio - University of Sassari, Italy Rocco Rongo - University of Calabria, Italy Andrea Giordano - ICAR-CNR, Italy Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy HPCMS Program Committee Gladys Utrera, Universitat Polit cnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain Donato D'Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Lou D Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Marisa Gil, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe Agapito, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Xavier Martorell, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Davide Macri, ICAR-CNR, Italy -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.496464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro@unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°