-------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 COMMITEEES 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@dlut.edu.cn; hpcc2008@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. --------------------------------------------------------------------