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PDP 2018 - Second Call for Papers - Deadline Postponed - http://www.pdp2018.org

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Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone impressive changes over recent years. New architectures, advanced programming models, improved efficiency and novel application domains have rapidly become the central focus of this discipline.

These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of parallel and distributed computational paradigms with other rapidly evolving technologies in different disciplines. It is of paramount importance to review and assess these new developments in relation with the recent research achievements in the different areas of parallel and distributed computing, considering both the industrial and scientific point of view.

PDP 2018 will provide a forum for the discusssion of these and other issues through original research presentations and will facilitate the exchange of knowledge and new ideas at the highest technical and applicative level.

PDP 2018 will be held in Cambridge, UK, March 21-23, 2018.

Conference web site http://www.pdp2018.org

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* Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

- Parallel Computing: massively parallel machines; embedded parallel and distributed systems; multi- and many-core systems; GPU and FPGA based parallel systems; parallel I/O; memory organisation.

- Distributed and Network-based Computing: Cluster, Grid, Web and Cloud computing; mobile computing; interconnection networks.

- Big Data: large scale data processing; distributed databases and archives; large scale data management; metadata; data intensive applications.

- Models and Tools: programming languages and environments; runtime support systems; performance prediction and analysis; simulation of parallel and distributed systems.

- Systems and Architectures: novel system architectures; high data throughput architectures; service-oriented architectures; heterogeneous systems; shared-memory and message-passing systems;

- Middlewares and File systems : distributed operating systems; dependability and survivability; resource management; parallel and distributed file systems;

- Advanced Algorithms and Applications: distributed algorithms; multi-disciplinary applications; computations over irregular domains; numerical applications with multi-level parallelism; real-time distributed applications.

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* In addition, special sessions will address upcoming novel topics:

- GPU computing and Many Integrated Core Computing

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/gpu.html

- Advances in High-Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/ahpbb.html

- Security in Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/snds.html

- Energy Efficient Management of Parallel Systems, Platforms, and Computations

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/energy.html

- Cloud Computing on Infrastructure as a Service and its Applications

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/ccisa.html

- High Performance Computing in Modeling and Simulation

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/hpcms.html

- On-chip parallel and network-based systems

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/ocpnbs.html

- Storage architectures and Data Transfer systems for BigData and Exascale Computing

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/sdt.html

- High Performance Computing for Neuroscience

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/neuro.html

- High Performance Computing in Astronomy and Astrophysics

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/astro.html

- Parallel and distributed high-performance computing solutions in Systems Biology

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/sysbio.html

- Parallel Numerical Methods and Libraries for Heterogeneous Multi/Manycores

http://www.pdp2018.org/specialsessions/numerical.html

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SPECIAL SESSIONS MAY HAVE DIFFERENT DEADLINES FROM THE PDP2018 MAIN TRACK

PLEASE TAKE A LOOK TO THE WEB PAGE OF EACH SPECIAL SESSSION FOR MORE DETAILS

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* Important dates:

- Paper submission: 3 Nov, 2017

- Acceptance notification: 1 Dic, 2017

- Camera ready due: 22 Dic, 2017

- Conference: 21 - 23 Mar, 2018

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* Submission of papers

Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt) to the conference main track or to a special session track  through the EasyChair conference submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?confpdp2018).

Double-blind review: the paper should not contain authors names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review".

Publication: all accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance.

Proceedings: authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge.

Special Issues: selected papers will be considered for a publication in a special issue of the journal "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience", edited by Wiley. Further contacts with editors of other international journal are on-going to have more special issues for papers from the special sessions.

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Ivan Merelli Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 93, via F.lli Cervi, 20090 Segrate (Mi), Italy Phone: +39 02 2642-2606 E-Mail: ivan.merelli@itb.cnr.it

Pietro Liò Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge 15, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK Phone: +44 (0)1223-763604 E-Mail: pl219@cam.ac.uk

Igor Kotenko Laboratory of Computer Security Problems, SPIIRAS 39, 14th. Liniya, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia Phone: +7 (812) 328-71-81 E-Mail: ivkote@comsec.spb.ru

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