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The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA-15)
http://comnet.aalto.fi/ISPA2015/

20-22 August 2015, Helsinki, Finland

Latest news:
6 Keynotes and 2 workshops announced

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015 -> extended to April 13, 2015 (FIRM)
Authors Notification: May 31, 2015
Final Manuscript Due: July 1, 2015


ISPA-15 (13th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for
presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers,
runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more.  During the symposium,
scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel
systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large
scale machines).
The 13th ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2014 in Asia,
Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and
keynote speeches. ISPA-15 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the
IEEE Computer Society. ISPA-15 is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the
use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of
parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking
and its applications.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to

Base Technologies and Tools Track
  - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC
  - Parallel and distributed algorithms
  - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development
  - Novel parallel programming paradigms
  - Programming models for cloud services and applications
  - Code generation and optimization
  - Compilers for parallel computers
  - Middleware and tools
  - Scheduling and resource management
  - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations
  - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security

Parallel and Distributed Systems and Architectures Track
  - Cloud computing and data center technology
  - Virtualization of computing
  - Migration of computations
  - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability
  - Energy management and Green Computing
  - Wireless and mobile networks
  - Internet-Of-Things (IoT)
  - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems

Applications of Parallel and Distributed Processing Track
  - High-performance scientific and engineering computing
  - Grid and cluster computing
  - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
  - Databases, data mining, and data management
  - Big data and business analytics
  - Scientific cloud systems and services
  - Internet computing and web services
  - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing
  - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications
  - Software Defined Networks and its applications


Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously
submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not
exceed 8 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format
with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper at https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ISPA2015/paper_submission.html
Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation.
Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the
authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted and presented papers will be included
in the IEEE CPS Proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be
recommended to high quality international journals.


Keynotes (in alphabetical order)

  Prof. Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
  Mr. Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure, Finland
  Mr. Lauri Oksanen, VP Research and Technology, Nokia Networks
  Prof. Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA	
  Prof. Witold Pedrycz, IEEE fellow, EiC of Information Sciences, Canada Research Chair
  Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, IEEE fellow, IEEE Vice President on Technical Activities, EiC of IEEE Systems Journal


General Chairs
     Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland
     Zhiyong Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Chairs
     Simone Campanoni, Harvard University, USA
     Antonio Fernández Anta, IMDEA, Spain
     Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden

Technical Program Committee
     Ittai Abraham, VMware Research, USA
     Javier Alonso, Duke U., USA
     Ivan Beretta, EPFL, Switzerland
     Vicent Cholvi, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
     Albert Cohen, INRIA, France
     Chryssis Georgiou, U Cyprus, Cyprus
     Seth Gilbert, National University of Singapore, Singapore
     Vincent Gramoli, NICTA and University of Sydney, Australia
     Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland
     Seif Haridi, KTH, Sweden
     Ernesto Jimenez, U Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
     Timothy Jones, University of Cambridge, UK
     Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
     Hanjun Kim  , Postech University, Korea
     Dejan Kostic, KTH, Sweden
     Jae W. Lee, SungKyunKwan University, Korea
     Shuaiwen Leon Song , Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA
     Alessia Milani, ENSEIRB-MATMECA, France
     Miguel A. Mosteiro, Kean University, USA
     Nicolas Nicolaou, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain
     Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos, Lund University, Sweden
     Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers U, Sweden
     Antoniu Pop, Manchester University, UK
     Krishna Rangan, Intel, USA
     Erven Rohou, INRIA, France
     Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
     Mordo Shalom, Tel-Hai Academic College & Technion, Israel
     Christopher Thraves, LAAS-CNRS, France
     Johan Tordsson, Umea University, Sweden
     Felix Winterstein, Imperial College, UK
     Fa Zhang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Steering Co-Chairs
     Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (Chair)
     Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Chair)

Publicity Chairs
     Hsi-Ya Chang, National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), Taiwan
     Matti Hamalainen, Digile, Finland
     Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Workshop Chairs
     Hannu-Matti Jarvinen, TUT, Finland
     Peng Zhang, XUPT, China

Finance Chair
     Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland

Web Chair
     Jesus Llorente Santos, Aalto University, Finland

     
Steering Committee
     Please see http://comnet.aalto.fi/ISPA2015/


Workshops
- RePara 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ISPA2015/repara2015/)
     The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Reengineering for Parallelism in Heterogeneous Parallel Platforms
     
- PBio (2015 https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ISPA2015/pbio2015/)
     The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics


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Raimo Kantola
Professor of Networking Technology
Dept of Communications and Networking
Aalto University