[ieeetcsc-discuss] [Fwd: Re: ISPAN'08 - Sydney, Australia]

[Rajkumar Buyya]

Dear Colleagues:

The University of Sydney has organised:
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The 9th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms
and Networks
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to be held in May next year in Sydney. Pls see attached Call for
papers/participation for details.

Regards
Raj

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I-SPAN 2008

The 9th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms
and Networks
May 7-9, 2008
Sydney, Australia

Organized by:
School of Information Technologies,
The University of Sydney
URL: http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~ispan08

Scope of Symposium

The International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms,
and Networks (I-SPAN) is a
forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the
world to exchange ideas and research
results related to the design, use, analysis, and application of
parallel architectures, algorithms,
networks, and internet technology. The first eight symposia were held:

    - I-SPAN '94: in Kanazawa, Japan, on December 14-16, 1994
    - I-SPAN '96: in Beijing, China, on June 12-14, 1996
    - I-SPAN '97: in Taipei, Taiwan, on December 18-20, 1997
    - I-SPAN '99: in Perth/Freemantle, Australia, on June 23-25, 1999
    - I-SPAN 2000: in Dallas/Richardson, Texas, USA, on December 7-9,
2000
    - I-SPAN 2002: in Manila, the Philippines, on May 23-25, 2002
    - I-SPAN 2004: in Hong Kong, China, on May 10-12, 2004
    - I-SPAN 2005: in Las Vegas, USA, on December 7-9, 2005

The ninth I-SPAN symposium will be held in Sydney, Australia, on May
7-9. I-SPAN 2008 will
include keynote addresses, invited/contributed papers, workshops, and
special sessions on
on-going projects on high-performance computing and/or
communications. The symposium will have
five tracks:

• Algorithms
• Applications
• Architecture
• Internet Technology and Informatics
• Networks and Communications

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Applications of Parallel Processing (including web applications,
peer to peer computing, grid
computing and scientific applications)
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Compilers and Optimizations for Parallel Processing
• Database and Data Mining
• Fault Tolerance Issues and Systems
• Intelligent Networks
• Interconnection Networks
• Internet and WWW Measurement, Mapping and Modelling
• Internet Technology and Applications
• Multicasting and Broadcasting Issues
• Multimedia Networking
• Network Routing and Communication Algorithms (wired, wireless, ad-
hoc, etc.)
• Network Security Applications
• Parallel and Network Computing and Algorithms
• Parallel Architecture and Processing Systems
• Scientific and High Performance Computing
• Telecommunication Network Design and Optimisation
• VLSI Network Design
• Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing

Chairs/Committees

General Chair:

    Albert Zomaya
    School of Information Technologies
    University of Sydney
    Email: zomaya at it.usyd.edu.au
    URL: http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~zomaya/

Program Committee Chair

   Sartaj Sahni
   CISE Department
   University of Florida
   Gainsville, Florida, FL 32611
   Tel: (1) 352 392 1527
   Fax: (1) 352 392 1220
   Email: sahni at cise.ufl.edu

Program Committee Vice-Chairs:

(Algorithms)
Koji Nakano,  Hiroshima University, Japan
nakano at cs.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

(Applications)
David Abramson,  Monash University, Australia
David.Abramson at infotech.monash.edu.au

(Architecture)
Rajat Moona,  IIT Kanpur, India
moona at iitk.ac.in

(Internet Technology and Informatics)
Muninder Singh,NC State University, USA
singh at ncsu.edu

(Networks and Communications)
   Chung-Ta King,  National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
king at cs.nthu.edu.tw
   Workshop Co-Chairs:

Azzedine Boukerche
boukerch at site.uottawa.ca

Guihai Chen
gchen at nju.edu.cn

Publicity Chairs

Rajkumar Buyya, Melbourne University, Australia,
raj at csse.unimelb.edu.au,
(Australia and New Zealand)

Pilar Herrero, pherrero at fi.upm.es, Universidad Politcnica de
Madrid, Spain (Europe)

Nashaat Mansour, Lebanese American University,
Lebanon,nmansour at lau.edu.lb, (Middle East)

Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, China, hjin at mail.hust.edu.cn, (Asia)

Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA,
olariu at cs.odu.edu (USA/Canada)


Organisation Committee

Local Organisation Chair:

Bjorn Landfeldt
School of Information Technologies
University of Sydney
Tel: (61) 2 9351 8962
Fax: (61) 2 9351 3838
bjornl at it.usyd.edu.au

Finance Chair

Bing Bing Zhou
School of Information Technologies
University of Sydney
bbz at it.usyd.edu.au

Publication Chair

Riky Subrata
School of Information Technologies
University of Sydney
efax at it.usyd.edu.au

Submission Guidelines

Please submit your complete paper(s) through the EDAS submission
system at http://edas.info. The
paper should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages of text using 12-point
size type on 8.5 x 11 inch
pages.

Workshop papers should be submitted to the individual workshop
organisers. The workshops to be
held will be separately advertised and also listed on the conference
web site shortly after March 30.

Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file
containing the following header
information in ASCII form: title, author name(s), abstract, postal
address, e-mail address, and
telephone and fax numbers. The header (in ASCII) should be followed
by the PDF version of the
complete manuscript (including title, author's name, affiliation, and
abstract). Authors should make
sure that the PDF file will print on a PostScript printer that uses
8.5 x 11 inch letter size paper.

The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not
submitted for publication elsewhere,
including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. One
author of each accepted paper will
be expected to present the paper at the conference.

Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Workshop proposals should be submitted to the workshop co-chairs.

Important Dates

Workshop proposal submissions   August 25, 2007
Deadline for Submission of Papers:  October 1, 2007
Submission of workshop papers  October 1, 2007
Notification of Acceptance:   December 1, 2007
Camera Ready Manuscript Due:   December 20, 2007
Advanced Registration for Authors:  December 20, 2007

Organized by:

     School of Information Technologies,
     University of Sydney


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