[ieeetcsc-discuss] Call for Papers - PDCoF08

[Dr. Ruppa Thulasiram]

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 			CALL FOR PAPER
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The First Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing in Finance
(PDCoF08-Computational Finance - Friday, April 18, 2008) 
http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~pdcof
 		to be held in conjunction with the
 		International  Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
 		(IPDPS08) April 14-18, 2008, Miami, FL, USA
 		(http://www.ipdps.org)
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In the last decade Computational Finance (CF) has influenced the market place
extensively with enormous impact on wealth building, employment opportunities, 
and tremendous economic growth. This field forms an ever-expanding part of the 
financial sector, in numerous ways today. Use of high performance computers for 
research in computational finance has grown steadily in the last
decade and the time is ripe to collect these researchers to exchange
their ideas, models and results through a conference meeting.  This
workshop will be a first such effort in bringing together researchers in the
area of computational finance (i) who design and develop parallel and distributed 
algorithms (ii) at a venue where Parallel, Distributed, Grid, and High Performance 
Computing are the fundamental threads of discussions and arguments.

Scope and Interests:
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Topics of interest include but not limited to the following:

--> Parallel Algorithms for problems such as stock price predictions, asset
pricing, option pricing and risk management

--> Numerical Techniques for above problem and their implementations on
state-of-the-art parallel architectures

--> Molecular simulation in finance

--> Engineering approaches (e.g. Fast Fourier Transform, Wavelet Transform)
to finance problems

--> Finance computations using system on a chip architectures

--> Real time pricing

--> High Performance data mining in finance


Important Deadlines:
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Paper submission due: 		October 23, 2007
Notification of acceptance: 	December 11, 2007
Camera-ready paper due: 	January 28, 2008


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