-------Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP------------- Dear Esteemed Scholar, It is our great honor to inform you that the 25th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT) will take place in Hong Kong, China, during December 13-15, 2024. It will be a great opportunity to share your excellent research work with esteemed colleagues from all over the world. PDCAT serves as a primary platform for scientists, engineers, and practitioners globally to present the most recent research findings, outcomes, concepts, advancements, and applications in all facets of parallel and distributed computing, including parallel architectures, algorithms, and programming techniques. Over its 24-year history, PDCAT has been successfully convened in many countries spanning Asia-Oceania, including China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. We earnestly wish participants to gain insights into foundational theories, practical experimental data, emerging business models, and the most recent academic trends from this conference. Publication The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, indexed by EI, Scopus, CPCI, etc. Extended versions of selected papers will be recommended to special issues of some SCI-indexed international journals, tentatively including Tsinghua Science and Technology, Computer and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, etc. Topics We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics: Networking and Architectures. Wireless networks and mobile computing Internet of Things Software Systems and Technologies. Task mapping and job scheduling Formal methods and programming languages Algorithms and Applications. Parallel/distributed algorithms Distributed data and knowledge-based systems Security and Privacy. Access control and authorization Authentication, biometrics, smartcards High Performance Systems. Memory hierarchy and caching Performance tuning, optimization and profiling Big Data Management and Processing. Mass data stream processing in clouds Graphs, social networks, and semantic web Submission The submission should contain scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques, and results, including the motivation and a clear comparison with related work. The length of the submission should not exceed 12 pages in LNCS style (including references, but excluding the optional appendix). Please submit your paper via the EquinOCS system: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/pdcat2024 Springer's LNCS LaTeX templates are available in OverLeaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-... For the complete author guideline, please access Springer's official site: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui... Important Dates Paper submission: September 30, 2024. Notification acceptance: November 1, 2024. Camera-ready and Registration: November 15, 2024. Conference date: December 13-15, 2024. Contact us by: pdcat2024@siat.ac.cn Please check the PDCAT' 2024 web site for more details. https://hpcc.siat.ac.cn/meeting/pdcat2024/index.html Kind Regards. PDCAT Organizing Committee