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The 16th IEEE International <font face="Verdana">Symposium on 
                                                                                        Parallel and Distributed Processing 
                                                                                        with Applications</font>

 (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
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Website: <a href="http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/" target="_blank">http://www.swinflow.org/confs/<wbr>2018/ispa/</a><br>
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Key dates:<br>
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) <br>
Notification: September 30, 2018<br>
Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018<br>
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Submission site: <a href="http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/submission.htm" target="_blank">http://www.swinflow.org/<wbr>confs/2018/ispa/submission.htm</a><br>
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Publication:<br>
Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.<br>
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Special issues:<br>Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience<div>
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Introduction<br>
     <br><font face="Verdana">The IEEE ISPA 
                                                                                        201<span lang="en-au">8</span> (1<span lang="en-au">6</span>th 
                                                                                        IEEE International Symposium on 
                                                                                        Parallel and Distributed Processing 
                                                                                        with Applications) is a forum for 
                                                                                        presenting leading work on parallel 
                                                                                        and distributed computing and 
                                                                                        networking, including architecture, 
                                                                                        compilers, runtime systems, 
                                                                                        applications, reliability, security, 
                                                                                        parallel programming models and much 
                                                                                        more. During the symposium, 
                                                                                        scientists and engineers in both 
                                                                                        academia and industry are invited to 
                                                                                        present their work on concurrent and 
                                                                                        parallel systems (multicore, 
                                                                                        multithreaded, heterogeneous, 
                                                                                        clustered systems, distributed 
                                                                                        systems, grids, clouds, and large 
                                                                                        scale machines). </font></div><div><font face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana"><font face="Verdana" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">The 1<span lang="en-au" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">6</span>th 
                                                                                        IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of 
                                                                                        previous successful IEEE ISPA 
                                                                                        conferences in the years from 2003 
                                                                                        to 201<span lang="en-au" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">7</span> in 
                                                                                        Asia, Europe, Australia and North 
                                                                                        America. It will feature sessions of 
                                                                                        regular presentations, workshops, 
                                                                                        tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE 
                                                                                        ISPA 201<span lang="en-au" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">8</span> 
                                                                                        is sponsored by the IEEE Technical 
                                                                                        Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) 
                                                                                        and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE 
                                                                                        ISPA is particularly interested 
                                                                                        in research addressing heterogeneous 
                                                                                        computing with the use of 
                                                                                        accelerators, mobile computing, 
                                                                                        approximate computing, tools and 
                                                                                        methodologies to improve the quality 
                                                                                        of parallel programming and applying 
                                                                                        generic computing approaches to 
                                                                                        networks, in particular Software 
                                                                                        Defined networking and its 
                                                                                        applications. </font>


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Scope and Topics<br>

<p><font face="Verdana"><strong>(1) 
                                                                                        Systems and Architectures Track</strong></font></p>
                                                                                             - Cloud computing and data center technology<br>     - Migration of computations<br>     - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability<br>     - Energy management and Green Computing<br>     - Wireless and mobile networks<br>     - Internet-Of-Things (IoT)<br>     - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems<br>               <p><font face="Verdana"><strong>(2) 
                                                                                        Technologies and Tools Track</strong></font></p>
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                                                                                        <span lang="en-au"> </span></font>     - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC<br>      - Parallel and distributed algorithms<br>      - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development<br>      - Novel parallel programming paradigms<br>      - Programming models for cloud services and applications<br>      - Code generation and optimization<br>      - Compilers for parallel computers<br>      - Middleware and tools<br>      - Scheduling and resource management<br>      - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations<br>      - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security<br> <br></p><p><strong style="font-family:Verdana">(3) 
                                                                                        Applications Track</strong><br></p>
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                                                                                        <span lang="en-au"> </span></font>    - High-performance scientific and engineering computing<br>     - Grid and cluster computing<br>     - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing<br>     - Databases, data mining, and data management<br>     - Big data and business analytics<br>     - Scientific cloud systems and services<br>     - Internet computing and web services<br>     - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing<br>     - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications<br>     - Software Defined Networks and its applications<font face="Verdana"><span lang="en-au"><br></span></font></p>

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Submission Guidelines<br>

<span style="font-family:Verdana">S</span>ubmissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: <font face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/submission.htm" target="_blank">http://www.swinflow.org/<wbr>confs/<span lang="en-us">2018/ispa/</span>submission.ht<span lang="en-au">m</span></a><wbr>.</font>

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Publications<br>
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.<br>         <br>Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.<br>       <br>Honorary Chairs<br>Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia<br>Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia<br>   <br>General Chairs<br>Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA<br>Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy<br>Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada<br></div>
                                                                                        <div dir="ltr">    </div>Program Chairs<br>Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan<br>Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK<br>Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy<br>    <br>Workshop Chairs<br>Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia<br>Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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