From - Sun Nov 2 21:06:41 1997 Received: from CS.Stanford.EDU (CS.Stanford.EDU [171.64.64.64]) by robotics.Stanford.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA02103; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 23:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hearnnt.nic.surfnet.nl (hearnnt.nic.surfnet.nl [192.87.5.133]) by CS.Stanford.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA10326; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 23:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hearnnt (192.87.5.133) by hearnnt.nic.surfnet.nl (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.E58AF450@hearnnt.nic.surfnet.nl>; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 8:07:24 +0200 Received: from NIC.SURFNET.NL by NIC.SURFNET.NL (LISTSERV release 1.8c) with NJE id 6664 for DMA-LIST@NIC.SURFNET.NL; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:12:10 +0200 Received: from HEARN (NJE origin SMTP@HEARN) by HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 6238; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:12:09 +0200 Received: from utmfu6.math.utwente.nl by HEARN.nic.SURFnet.nl (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Thu, 18 Sep 97 08:12:07 +0200 Received: from utmfu0.math.utwente.nl (utmou1.math.utwente.nl) by utmfu6.math.utwente.nl with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA003553071; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:11:12 +0200 Received: by utmfu0.math.utwente.nl ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/16.2) id AA137383069; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:11:09 +0200 Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.36.1.1] Approved-By: DMANET Message-ID: <199709180611.AA137383069@utmfu0.math.utwente.nl> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:11:06 METDST Reply-To: matiquzz@engr.udayton.edu Sender: DMANET From: DMANET Subject: CFP: Parallel & Distr. Comp. Syst. To: DMA-LIST@NIC.SURFNET.NL X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 Status: O X-Status: Dear Colleague, I would appreciate if you could circulate the attached CFP among interested faculty and graduate students. Thanks Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Dayton, Ohio. =============================================================================== 10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems Las Vegas, Nevada, October 28-31, 1998 Sponsored by International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) ___________________________________________________________________________ Purpose The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and systems, sponsored by IASTED, is a major annual forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest research results, ideas, development, and applications in all areas of parallel and distributed processing. The 1997 conference attracted researchers from 34 countries. The 1998 meeting (PDCS '98) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., and will include keynote addresses, contributed papers, tutorials, and workshops. ____________________________________________________________________________ Scope The main focus of PDCS '98 will be parallel and distributed computing and systems viewed from the three perspectives of architecture and networking, software systems, and algorithms and applications. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: ARCHITECTURE AND NETWORKING * SIMD/MIMD processors * Various parallel/concurrent architecture styles * Interconnection networks * Memory systems and management * I/O in parallel processing * VLSI systems * Optical computing * Computer networks * Communications and telecommunications * Wireless networks and mobile computing SOFTWARE SYSTEMS * Operating systems * Programming languages * Various parallel programming paradigms * Vectorization and program transformation * Parallelizing compilers * Tools and environments for software development * Distributed data- and knowledge-base systems * Modelling and simulation * Performance evaluation and measurements * Visualization ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS * Parallel/distributed algorithms * Resource allocation and management * Load sharing and balancing * Task mapping and job scheduling * Network routing and communication algorithms * Reliability and fault tolerance * Signal and image processing * Neural networks * High-performance scientific computing * Application studies ___________________________________________________________________________ Steering Committee Narsingh Deo University of Central Florida (USA) Ahmed Elmagarmid Purdue University (USA) Geoffrey Fox Syracuse University (USA) H. Scott Hinton University of Colorado (USA) D. Frank Hsu Fordham University (USA) Oscar Ibarra University of California at Santa Barbara (USA) Joseph JaJa University of Maryland (USA) Lennart Johnsson University of Houston (USA) H. T. Kung Harvard University (USA) Tom Leighton Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) Jane Liu University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (USA) Marlin Mickle University of Pittsburgh (USA) Lionel Ni Michigan State University (USA) Stephan Olariu Old Dominion University (USA) Sartaj Sahni University of Florida (USA) Eugen Schenfeld NEC Research Institute (USA) Marc Snir IBM - Thomas Watson Research Center (USA) Hal Sudborough University of Texas at Dallas (USA) Si-Qing Zheng Louisiana State Uiversity (USA) Albert Y. Zomaya University of Western Australia (Australia) General Co-Chairs Selim G. Akl Queens University (Canada) Keqin Li State University of New York (USA) Program Chair Yi Pan University of Dayton (USA) Tutorial Chair Pradip K. Srimani Colorado State University (USA) Program Committee Ishfaq Ahmad Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Hong Kong) Hamid R. Arabnia University of Georgia (USA) Mohammed Atiquzzaman University of Dayton (USA) Johnnie W. Baker Kent State University (USA) Jingde Cheng Kyushu University (Japan) Kam-Hoi Cheng University of Houston (USA) Henry Chuang University of Pittsburgh (USA) Kuo-Liang Chung National Taiwan Univ. of Sc. and Tech (Taiwan) Bin Cong California Polytechnic State University (USA) Mark Cross University of Greenwich (UK) Sajal K. Das University of North Texas (USA) Brian J. d'Auriol The University of Akron (USA) Frank Dehne Carleton University (Canada) Eliezer Dekel IBM - Haifa Research Lab. (Israel) Ivan Dimov Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria) Erik H. D'Hollander University of Ghent (Belgium) Omer Egecioglu University of California at Santa Barbara (USA) Hossam ElGindy University of Newcastle (Australia) Afonso Ferreira CNRS-INRIA (France) Rajiv Gupta University of Pittsburgh (USA) Mounir Hamdi Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (Hong Kong) Jack Jean Wright State University (USA) Weijia Jia City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) Shahram Latifi University of Nevada (USA) Yamin Li University of Aizu (Japan) Ahmed Louri University of Arizona (USA) Bruce Maggs Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Brian Malloy Clemson University (USA) Koji Nakano Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan) Michael A. Palis Rutgers University (USA) Marcin Paprzycki University of Southern Mississippi (USA) Behrooz Parhami Univ. of California at Santa Barbara (USA) Chan-Ik Park Pohang Univ. of Science & Tech (Korea) Lori Pollock University of Delaware (USA) Jerry L. Potter Kent State University (USA) Chunming Qiao State University of New York (USA) C. S. Raghavendra The Aerospace Corporation (USA) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran University of Florida (USA) Hesham El-Rewini University of Nebraska at Omaha (USA) Jose D. P. Rolim University of Geneva (Switzerland) Hemant Rotithor Digital Equipment Corporation (USA) Ponnuswamy Sadayappan Ohio State University (USA) Assaf Schsuter Technion (Israel) Edwin Sha University of Notre Dame (USA) Hong Shen Griffith University (Australia) Xiaojun Shen University of Missouri at Kansas City (USA) Gurdip Singh Kansas State University (USA) Mary Lou Soffa University of Pittsburgh (USA) Pradip K. Srimani Colorado State University (USA) Per Stenstrom Chalmers Univ. of Technology (Sweden) Ivan Stojmenovic University of Ottawa (Canada) Hal Sudborough University of Texas at Dallas (USA) Jerry L. Trahan Louisiana State University (USA) Ramachandran Vaidyanathan Louisiana State University (USA) Subbarayan Venkatesan University of Texas at Dallas (USA) Alan S. Wagner University of British Columbia (Canada) Yuanyuan Yang University of Vermont (USA) ____________________________________________________________________________ Paper Submission Guidelines Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Please send four copies of a manuscript to the program committee chair at the following address by April 15, 1998: Professor Yi Pan PDCS '98 Program Chair Department of Computer Science University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio, 45469-2160, U.S.A. Phone: (937) 229-3807 Fax: (937) 229-4000 Email: pan@udcps.cps.udayton.edu A manuscript should not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures. In the cover letter, please indicate the author for correspondence, and his/her complete postal address, phone and fax numbers, and email address (make sure the email address is current and working). _____________________________________________________________________________ Tutorials/Workshops Several workshops are being planned for PDCS '98. Each workshop will focus on a particular topic, and consists of several presentations and open discussion. A one-page abstract of each workshop presentation will be published in the conference proceedings. The proposal for a workshop should include the title, topics covered, proposed/invited speakers, and estimated length (hours) of the workshop. Anyone wishing to organize a workshop in connection with PDCS '98 should submit four copies of his/her proposal to the program chair at the address given above by April 15, 1998. PDCS '98 will also offer half-day tutorials in parallel and distributed computing. Each tutorial proposal should provide the title, topics, targeted audiences, and instructor's biography. The proposal should be submitted to the tutorial chair Dr. Pradip K. Srimani via email at srimani@CS.Colostate.EDU. _____________________________________________________________________________ Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: April 15, 1998 * Author notification: June 15, 1998 * Camera-ready version due: August 1, 1998 * Workshop/tutorial proposal due: April 15, 1998 * Conference: October 28-31, 1998 ______________________________________________________________________________ IJPDSN A special issue consisting of selected papers from PDCS '98 will be published in International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks. Other papers may be submitted to: Professor Marlin H. Mickle Editor-In-Chief, IJPDSN Department of Electrical Engineering University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA ______________________________________________________________________________ Mailing List For more information or to be placed on the mailing list, please contact: Ms. Pen Harms, IASTED PDCS '98 Secretariat, 1811 West Katella Avenue, Suite 101, Anaheim, CA 92804, U.S.A. Tel: 714-778-3230. Fax: 714-778-5463. Email: iasted@orion.oac.uci.edu. ______________________________________________________________________________ PDCS '98 Home Page A Web site has been established at http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdcs98, which provides the latest information on PDCS '98. -- ****************************************************** Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to DMANET@math.utwente.nl Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. 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