Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.arch,comp.parallel.pvm,comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing From: hra@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hamid R. Arabnia) Subject: 1998 International Conference on Parallel/Distributed Processing, Las Vegas, July 13-16,98 Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Date: 12 Jan 1998 01:40:28 GMT Message-ID: <69bsac$du1$1@cronkite.cc.uga.edu> Dear Colleagues: I would appreciate your assistance in distributing the appended conference Call For Papers (PDPTA'98, Las Vegas, July 13-16, 1998) to your colleagues. Submission deadline for the draft papers is Feb. 20, 1998. Any help in publicizing the conference would be most appreciated. Kindest regards, Hamid R. Arabnia hra@cs.uga.edu C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= The 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'98) July 13 - 16, 1998 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 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 (or 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. SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: O Parallel/Distributed applications: Numerical computations/methods, neural networks and fuzzy logic, medicine, remote sensing, GIS, computer vision, computer graphics and virtual reality, parallel/distributed databases, banking, ... O Parallel/Distributed architectures: MIMD, SPMD, SIMD, Systolic, vector/pipeline (supercomputers), shared memory, distributed memory, general- and special-purpose architectures, ... O Building block processors: Applications of processors that can be used as basic building blocks for multicomputer systems. O Networks and Interconnection networks: Scalable networks, Reconfigurable networks, routing issues, general-purpose network performance for distributed applications, ... O Reliability and fault-tolerance: Software and hardware fault-tolerance (system- and application-level), fault diagnosis, fault-tolerance measurement. O Performance analysis and evaluation. O Real-time and embedded systems: Small-scale parallel systems for high-performance control, data acquisition, and analysis; configuration, routing, scheduling, performance guarantees. O Parallel/Distributed algorithms: Algorithms exploiting MIMD, SPMD, SIMD, Systolic, vector/pipeline, shared memory, distributed memory, ... O Mobile computation and communication. O Object Oriented Technology and related issues. O Heterogeneous and multimedia systems. O Software tools and environments for parallel computers: Operating systems, compilers, languages, debuggers, ... O High-performance computing in Computational Science: Intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research programs and applications. O 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) 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 the paper, 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. PROPOSAL FOR 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 about 40 papers for journal publication in related journals (after the conference). All accepted papers will also be considered for journal publication. ORGANIZERS/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/online/), 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.) LOCATION OF CONFERENCE: 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: February 20, 1998 (Friday): Draft papers (5-page) due April 3, 1998 (Friday): Notification of acceptance May 22, 1998 (Friday): Camera-Ready papers & Preregistration due July 13 - 16, 1998: PDPTA'98 Conference Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as soon as possible. All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference. MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES (as of Jan. 2, 1998): H. Abachi, Monash University, Victoria, Australia; F. Ahmed, Penn State Erie, Erie, PA, USA; Y. Akiyama, Tsukuba Research Center, Takezono, Tsukuba, Japan; H. R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, Georgia, USA; K. Araki, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; D. R. Avresky, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; D. A. Bader, University of New Mexico, NM, USA; M. Bozyigit, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia; R. Buyya, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore, India; G. Cybenko, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA; E. H. D'Hollander, RUG, Parallel Information Systems, Gent, Belgium; P. Evripidou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus; R. Frost, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, California, USA; J-L. Gaudiot, University of Southern California, California, USA; J. Gustafson, Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa, USA; M. R. Haghighat, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California, USA; T. Hazra, Advanced Computing Concepts and Solutions, MD, USA; K. Joe, Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan; H. Kasahara, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; K. Li, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, USA; C-C. Lim, Gintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore; J. Lombardo, National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; H. P. Luethi, Swiss Center for Scientific Computing, Zurich, Switzerland; R. N. Mahapatra, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA; K. Makki, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, USA; S. A. M. Makki, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia; A. Marsh, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; N. Mirenkov, University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan; R. A. Olsson, University of California, Davis, California, USA; Y. Pan, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA; G. A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; N. Pissinou, University of Southwestern Louisiana, LA, USA; E. E. Santos, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA; S. Sedukhin, University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan; H. Shen, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia; H. Shi, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; H. J. Siegel, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; G. S. Stiles, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA; Y. Takahashi, University of Tokushima, Japan; E-G. Talbi, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL), France; G. K. Thiruvathukal, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA; M. R. Tolun, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; M. Vaez, AT&T, Middletown, New Jersey, USA; F. Valafar, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA; H. Valafar, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA; H. A. G. Wijshoff, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherland; M. Yasrebi, Bell Atlantic, White Plains, New York, USA; A. Y. Zomaya, University of Western Australia, Australia. CONFERENCE 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 http://www.jhpc.org/pdpta98 (or http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta.)