Call for Papers
The 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'98)
Location and Dates
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
July 13 - 16, 1998
About the Conference
The 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'98) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada,
July 13-16, 1998.
The last conference (PDPTA'97) had research contributions from 39 countries. It is hoped that PDPTA'98 will also have a strong international flavor. For information on the last three PDPTA conferences (PDPTA'95, PDPTA'96, & PDPTA'97), refer to
http://www.jhpc.org/pdpta98
http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta
You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a technical session (see below for submission information). All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
THE NAMES OF TECHNICAL SESSION CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS ASSOCIATE EDITORS ON THE COVER OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.
Submission Guidelines
Papers
You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a technical session (see below for submission information). All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Session Organizers
The names of the technical session chairs will appear as associate editors on the cover of the conference proceedings.
Scope
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Parallel/Distributed applications
- Numerical computations/methods, neural networks and fuzzy logic, medicine, remote sensing, GIS, computer vision, computer graphics and virtual reality, parallel and distributed databases, banking, etc.
- Parallel/Distributed architectures
- MIMD, SPMD, SIMD, Systolic, vector/pipeline (supercomputers), shared memory, distributed memory, general- and special-purpose architectures, etc.
- Building block processors:
- Applications of processors that can be used as basic building blocks for multicomputer systems.
- Networks and Interconnection networks:
- Scalable networks, Reconfigurable networks, routing issues, general-purpose network performance for distributed applications, ...
- Reliability and fault-tolerance:
- Software and hardware fault-tolerance (system- and application-level), fault diagnosis, fault-tolerance measurement.
- Performance analysis and evaluation.
- Real-time and embedded systems:
- Small-scale parallel systems for high-performance control, data acquisition, and analysis; configuration, routing, scheduling, performance guarantees.
- Parallel/Distributed algorithms:
- Algorithms exploiting MIMD, SPMD, SIMD, Systolic, vector/pipeline, shared memory, distributed memory, ...
- Mobile computation and communication.
- Object Oriented Technology and related issues.
- Heterogeneous and multimedia systems.
- Software tools and environments for parallel computers:
- Operating systems, compilers, languages, debuggers, ...
- High-performance computing in Computational Science:
- Intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research programs and applications.
- Other aspects and applications relating to high-performance computations.
Submission of Papers
Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their draft paper (about 5 pages) to H. R. Arabnia (address is given below: https://intervalinc.com) by the due date. E-mail and Fax submissions are also acceptable. The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 8 pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page of the draft paper should include: title of thepaper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, and Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
Organizing Technical Sessions
Each technical session will have 5/6 paper presentations. The session chairs will be responsible in selecting the papers for their own sessions. The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings. Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ E-mail) of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, and how you plan to advertise the session and select papers for the proposed session. Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address is given below); E-mail submissions are preferred.
Evaluation Process
Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the topical area. The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one person.
Publication
The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN). It will be a multivolume set. The proceedings will be available at the conference. It is planned to select 20 papers for journal publication in related journals (after theconference).
Organizers and Sponsors
A number of university faculty members in cooperation with the Las Vegas Hilton (conference division) will be organizing the conference. The conference is sponsored by the Computer Science Research, Education, and Applications Tech. (CSREA) in cooperation with the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI; http://www.npaci.edu), the North American Transputer Users Group (NATUG), the National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment (Department of Energy, USA), the Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech. (CVRA), developers of high-performance machines and systems (pending) and related computer associations (pending.)
The Las Vegas Venue
The conference will be held in Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Las Vegas Hilton is one of the top resort hotels in the world. It has excellent conference facilities and over 3000 rooms. The hotel is only minutes from the Las Vegas airport with free shuttles to and from the airport. The hotel has many vacation and recreational attractions, including:
casino, swimming pools, sunning, tennis courts, luxurious health spa, golf course, evening shows (Andrew Lloyd Webber's spectacular musical), a number of bars, nightclub, virtual reality game rooms, shopping in the variety of distinct retail stores, 9 restaurants (Italian, Japanese, ...), snack bars, ... Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a day and most are suitable for families and children. The hotel's room rate is ($99 + tax) per night for the duration of the conference.
The hotel is minutes from other Las Vegas attractions (major shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free street shows, ...).
For the benefit of our international colleagues: the state of Nevada neighbors with the states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Las Vegas is only a few driving hours away from other major cities, including: Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, ...
Exhibition
An exhibition is planned during the conference. We have reserved 20+ exhibit spaces. Interested parties should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is given below). All exhibitors will be considered to be the co-sponsors of the conference. Each exhibitor will have the opportunity to include a two-page description of their latest products in the conference proceedings (if submitted by May 22, 1998).
Important Dates
Date What is due? Notes
well before 20 February 1998 technical session proposals
20 February 1998
(Friday) 5-page draft papers due
3 April 1998
(Friday) notification of acceptance
22 May 1998
(Friday) camera-ready papers due Preregistration also required on this date. One author must attend conference for paper to be printed in proceedings
13-16 July 1998 conference
Program and Organizing Committee
To minimize changes to the CFP itself, this list is being maintained on a different page.
Conference Chair and Contact
Hamid R. Arabnia
The University of Georgia
Department of Computer Science
415 Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.
Tel: (706) 542-3480
Fax: (706) 542-2966
E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu
Website: www.bakeradio.com