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<div>THE 9TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKING, ARCHITECTURE, AND STORAGE£¨NAS 2014£©</div><div>AUGUST 6-8, 2014,</div><div>TIANJIN, CHINA</div><div><a href="http://www.nas-conference.org/">http://www.nas-conference.org/</a></div>
<div>*********************************************************************</div><div>Overview</div><div>International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2014) will be held on </div><div>August 6-8, 2014 in Tianjin, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together </div>
<div>researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on </div><div>networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and Distributed data storage </div><div>technologies. </div>
<div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div>- Deadline for Paper Submission: March 21st, 2014</div><div>- Notification of Paper Acceptance: May 19th, 2014</div><div>- Camera-ready Paper and Author Registration: June 9th, 2014</div>
<div><br></div><div>General Co-Chairs</div><div>- Guangming Liu, NSCC-TJ, China</div><div>- Jizhong Han, CAS/IIE, China</div><div>- Ce Yu, Tianjin U, China</div><div><br></div><div>Program Co-Chairs</div><div>- Zhao Zhang, ISU, USA</div>
<div>- Songqing Chen, GMU, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Vice Program Chairs:</div><div>Networking Track</div><div>- Yang Guo, Bell Labs, USA</div><div>- Yonggang Wen, NTU, Singapore</div><div>Architecture Track</div><div>
- Youtao Zhang, U Pittsburg, USA</div><div>- Lixin Zhang, CAS/ICT, China</div><div>Storage Track</div><div>- Howie Huang, GWU, USA</div><div>- Yu Hua, HUST, China</div><div><br></div><div>Publicity Co-Chairs</div><div>- Diana G?hringer, RUB, Germany</div>
<div>- Christian Pilato, Columbia U, USA </div><div>- Jianhui Yue, U Maine, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Local Arrangement Chair</div><div>- Wenrui Dong, NSCC-TJ, China</div><div><br></div><div>Publication Chair</div><div>
- Wei Zhou, CAS/IIE, China</div><div><br></div><div>Chair for Industrial Panel and International Forum</div><div>- Xiangfei Meng, NSCC-TJ, China</div><div><br></div><div>Reg. and Finance Chair</div><div>- Xia Zijun, NSCC-TJ, China</div>
<div><br></div><div>Steering Committee</div><div>- Xubin He, VCU, USA </div><div>- Hong Jiang, UNL, USA</div><div>- Changsheng Xie, HUST, China</div><div>- Qing Yang, URI, USA</div><div>- Andr¨¦ Brinkmann, JGU, GER</div><div>
- Jian Li, IBM Research, USA</div><div>- Tao Li, UFL, USA</div><div>- Marco Santambrogio, POLIMI, Italy</div><div>- Hongbin Sun, Xi'An Jiaotong, China</div><div><br></div><div>TOPICS</div><div>The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div>
<div>- Cloud and grid computing</div><div>- Network applications and services</div><div>- Ad hoc and sensor networks</div><div>- Networks and protocols</div><div>- Network architectures</div><div>- Virtual and overlay networks</div>
<div>- Network modeling and measurement</div><div>- Network security</div><div>- Mobile and wireless network</div><div>- Network information theory & network coding</div><div>- Processor architectures</div><div>- Parallel architectures</div>
<div>- Cache and memory systems</div><div>- Emerging technology and architecture</div><div>- GPU architecture and programming</div><div>- HW/SW co-design&tradeoff</div><div>- Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques</div>
<div>- Storage management</div><div>- Storage performance and scalability</div><div>- File systems, object-based storage and block storage</div><div>- Energy-aware storage</div><div>- Architecture and applications of solid state disks</div>
<div>- Cloud storage</div><div>- Storage virtualization </div><div><br></div><div>SUBMISSION</div><div>NAS 2014 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. All accepted </div><div>papers will be Included in the IEEE digital library and indexed by EI.</div>
<div><br></div><div>CONTACT</div><div>Please contact Professor Zhao Zhang <<a href="mailto:zzhang@iastate.edu">zzhang@iastate.edu</a>> and Professor Songqing </div><div>Chen <<a href="mailto:sqchen@cs.gmu.edu">sqchen@cs.gmu.edu</a>> for any questions, or check our conference website at </div>
<div><a href="http://www.nas-conference.org">http://www.nas-conference.org</a> for updates.</div><div><br></div><div>SPONSORS</div><div>NAS 2014 is sponsored by NSCC-TJ (National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin), </div><div>
Tianjin University, and IEEE.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>