[ieeetcsc-discuss] CFP of HPCC-08

[Laurence Tianruo Yang]

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                 CALL FOR PAPERS and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

        The 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance
                 Computing and Communications (HPCC-08)

             Organized by Dalian University of Technology, China
      Sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing
                  Dalian, China, September 25-27, 2008
                       http://hpcc08.dlut.edu.cn/
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INTRODUCTION

HPCC-08 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International
Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 
previously
held as HPCC-07 (Houston, USA, September 2007), HPCC-06 (Munich, 
Germany, September
2006), HPCC-05 (Naples, Italy, September 2005), HPCN-04 (Tokyo, Japan, 
December 2004),
PACT-SHPSEC03 (New Orleans, USA, September 2003), PACT-SHPSEC02 
(Charlottesville,
USA, September 2002), HPCA-01 (Nova Scotia, Canada, November 2001), 
HPNCA-00
(Delft, The Netherlands, May 2000), HPNCA-99 (Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands, April 1999).

The HPCC-08 conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in 
academia, industry,
and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to 
present and discuss their
new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects 
of high performance
computing and communications.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

     * Languages and compilers for high performance computing
     * Parallel and distributed system architectures
     * Parallel and distributed software technologies
     * Parallel and distributed algorithms
     * Embedded systems
     * Peer-to-peer computing
     * Grid and cluster computing
     * Web services and internet computing
     * Performance evaluation and measurement
     * Tools and environments for software development
     * Distributed systems and applications
     * High-performance scientific and engineering computing
     * Database applications and data mining
     * Biological/molecular computing
     * Collaborative and cooperative environments
     * Network protocols, routing, algorithms
     * Mobile computing and wireless communications
     * Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence
     * Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance
     * Trust, security and privacy

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop Proposal:       February 28,  2008
Submission Deadline:     March  31,   2008
Authors Notification:    June   01 ,  2008
Final Manuscript Due:    July   01,   2008

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. 
Submit your paper(s)
at the HPCC-08 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc08/

PAPER PUBLICATION

Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE conference 
proceedings published
by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at 
least one of them, are
requested to register and present their work at the conference, 
otherwise their papers will
be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the 
conference.

Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further 
revisions, will be published in
special issues of the several international issues such as Journal of 
Supercomputing,
IJHPCN, IJCSE, IJCSSE and WWW.

WORKSHOP PROPOSAL

In conjunction with the HPCC-08 conference, several workshops will be 
held. If you would
like to organize a workshop, please submit a workshop proposal including 
call for paper,
organizing committee, important dates, contact person, short bio of the 
organizers to the
HPCC-08 workshop chairs before February 28, 2008. Proceedings of the 
HPCC-08 workshops
will be published by IEEE CS Press. The workshops with more than 15 
papers will be
granted with a free complimentary registration and local accommodation 
for one leading
workshop organizer.

ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES

Honorary Chairs
Jinping Ou, Dalian University of Technology, China

General Chairs
Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China
Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia
Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

Program Chairs
Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK
Mitsuhisa Sato,University of Tsukuba, Japan
Hans P. Zima, California Institute of Technology, USA

Program Vice Chairs
Shi-Jinn Horng, National Taiwan University of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Rajeev Raje, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK
Hiroshi Nakashima, Kyoto University, Japan
Ahmed Y. Al-Dubai, Napier University, UK
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
Mario Guarracino, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK
Cheng-Xiang Wang, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Hiroshi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Guojun Wang, Central South University, China

Steering Chairs
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Steering Committee
Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA
Jaspal Subhlok, University of Houston, USA
Ronald Perrott, Queen~s University of Belfast, UK
Michael Gerndt, Technische University of München, Germany
Dieter Kranzlmüller, John Kepler University Linz, Austria
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK

Workshop Chairs
Juan Tourino, University of A Coruna, Spain
Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech., China

Publicity Chairs
Yu Liang, Central State University, USA
Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech., China
Salvatore Venticinque, Second University of Naples, Italy

Publication Chairs
Yang Xiang, Central Queensland University, Australia
Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA

Web Administrator Chair
Liu Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Local Arrangement Chair
Yong Zhang, Dalian University of Technology, China

Program Committee
See HPCC-08 web site: http://hpcc08.dlut.edu.cn

Further questions, please contact with
Dr. Keqiu Li, Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Dalian University of Technology
No 2, Linggong Road, Dalian, 116024, China
Email: keqiu at dlut.edu.cn; hpcc2008 at gmail.com
Tel/Fax: 86-411-84709242

ABOUT DALIAN AND CITY TOUR
Dalian, a well-known city with a longstanding history and civilization, 
lies in
Northeast of China. Dalian, named as "Northern Hong Kong of China", has 
a world-class
reputation for its seafood, shopping, and sightseeing. September is the 
best season for
tourism and enjoying seafood. Dalian is also well-connected via air to 
major cities in the world.

One day post-conference city tour on September 28, 2008 will be included 
into the conference package.
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