First Call for Papers and Symposium Announcement

International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing

In association with HeteroPar’04

July 5^th – 8^th 2004

University College Cork, Ireland.

http://www.cs.ucc.ie/ispdc-heteropar04

THEME

In the exciting and rapidly moving world of parallel and distributed computing, advances in these multi-faceted fields need to be evaluated early and disseminated quickly. ISPDC attempts to provide an interactive, professional, and friendly forum for these purposes.

SCOPE

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers (not being considered for publication elsewhere) describing theoretical and/or experimental research in areas of interest which include:

• Algorithms, Models and Formal Verification
• Software Agents and Multi-agent Systems
• Programming Paradigms and Tools
• Resource Discovery and Management
• Task and Communication Scheduling
• Performance Management
• Cluster and Grid Computing
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
• Parallel, Distributed and Mobile Databases
• Peer-to-Peer and Web Computing and Services
• Adaptive Computing
• Web Distributed Computing
• Real-time Distributed Systems
• Security
• Fault Tolerance
• Scientific Computing and Large Scale Simulations
• Applications and Case Studies

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions are solicited according to the schedule listed below and should consist of:

• A cover page with the authors’ full name, address, fax number and email address;
• A 100-word abstract and keywords;
• A paper describing original research in no more than 8 pages formatted in the IEEE style.

PREVIOUS ISPDC MEETINGS

http://www.infoiasi.ro/~ispdc/

http://thor.info.uaic.ro/~busaco/ispdc2003/

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers, for which there is at least one registration fee paid, will be published in joint ISPDC 2004/ HeteroPar04 post conference proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 5^th 2004: Manuscript Submission Deadline

April 7^th 2004: Distribution to PC members for review

April 26^th 2004: Reviews Due

April 29^th, 2004: Selection and PC Deliberations

April 30^th, 2004: Acceptance/Rejection Notification.

July 5^th-8^th, 2004: Symposium Dates

STEERING COMMITTEE

John P. Morrison, (Ireland) (Chair)

Dan Grigoras, (Ireland)

Marcin Paprzycki (USA)