We kindly invite you to submit original contributions to ISPDC-2018 on topics including, but not limited to:

System Architectures for Parallel and Distributed Computing

• Multi-Cores, Virtualization
• Clusters and Grid Computing
• Methods and Tools for Parallel and Distributed Programming
• Embedded, Mobile and Networking Environments
• System Architecture and System Software for In-Memory Computing
• Innovative System Architecture for Big Data Processing
• System Architecture for Graph Computing/Processing
• Interconnect Architecture for HPC and Data Centers

High Performance Computing and Large Scale Applications

• Tools and Environments for Parallel Program Design/Analysis
• Scalable Algorithms and Applications
• Urban Networks and Applications, Vehicular Networks
• Parallel, Distributed and Mobile big-Data Management

Parallel Computing and Algorithms

• Parallel Programming Paradigms and APIs
• GPU Programming
• Bio-inspired Parallel Algorithms
• Big Data and Graph Analytics
• Algorithms, Models and Formal Verification

Cloud Computing

• Cloud Resource Provisioning and Allocation
• Pricing of Cloud Resources
• Cloud Performance, and Capacity Management
• Green Cloud Computing
• Mobile Clouds
• Security and Privacy in Clouds
• Cloud Computing Techniques for Big Data
• Storage Architectures for Clouds and Big Data Processing

Edge Computing

• Fog computing and networking architectures
• Edge-Cloud interactions and enabling protocols
• System and service management
• Edge resource management
• Distributed data centers, edge data analytics, edge caching
• Security and privacy

Distributed and Embedded Computing

• Collaborative Computing, P2P Computing
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
• Web Services and Internet Computing
• Distributed Software Components, Multi-agent Systems
• Parallel Embedded Systems Programming
• Highly Embedded Parallel Systems Support for Programming
• FPGA and SoC Solutions

Performance Modeling, Management and Optimisation

• Scheduling and Load Balancing
• Performance Modeling, Analysis and Evaluation
• Optimisation, Security and Dependability

Interactivity

• Real-time Distributed and Parallel Systems
• Visualisation of Massively Parallel Data
• IoT, Social Networks

PAPER SUBMISSION:

You are invited to submit original papers of up to 8 pages, written in English and compliant with the IEEE standard (8.5″x11″, two-column). The Conference Publishing Services (CPS) will publish the proceedings. Submissions must be PDF files in IEEE format.

To be published in the ISPDC-2018 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference. A best paper award will be presented to paper(s) receiving the highest quality rating from the reviewers and the PC.

Paper submissions are to be made accessing the registration page on EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispdc2018).

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstracts submissions deadline: January 29, 2018 February 12, 2018
Full papers deadline: February 10, 2018 February 26, 2018
Notification of authors: April 10, 2018
Camera ready papers: April 30, 2018
Author registration: April 30, 2018
Early registration: May 7, 2018
ISPDC-2018 Symposium: June 25 to 28, 2018