[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] International Conference on Advanced Parallel Processing Technology (APPT 2015) August 20-21, Jinan, Shandong, China http://appt2015.tcarch.org APPT is a biennial conference on parallel and distributed processing. Following the success of its past ten conference series, APPT-15 will continue to provide an exciting forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss experiences, new ideas, and results related to parallel and distributed processing, including specific technologies on big data processing, parallel architectures and systems, parallel software, parallel algorithms and applications, distributed and cloud computing, and so on. Specific technologies on big data processing -Big data applications and corresponding features -Programming models and tools for big data applications -Parallel algorithms for big data processing -Analysis techniques and tools for big graph processing and data centers; -Systems and tools for big data processing -Micro-architecture, storage, and energy management for big data processing -Parallel architectures and systems Architectures for instruction-level, chip-level, thread-level and data parallelism -Special-purpose architectures and accelerators -Optimization on memory hierarchy -Network and interconnect architectures -Interconnect architectures for multicore -Parallel I/O and storage systems -Power-efficient architectures -Architecture and compiler support for big data computing -Software bridging computing segments, from mobile systems to data centers -Embedded computing systems -Parallel and distributed embedded and control systems Parallel software -Parallel programming languages, models and compilers -New parallel programming paradigms -Domain-specific languages for parallel systems -Multicore runtime systems -Operating systems and virtualization for multicore and clusters -Resource management for parallel systems -High availability, reliability and fault tolerance -Scalability issues in parallel software and systems -Performance modeling, analysis and tuning tools -Programming environments and tools -Parallel embedded software Parallel algorithms and applications -Massively parallel applications -Fault-tolerance of algorithms -Optimizations of communication and synchronization protocols -Network algorithms, Scheduling and load balancing -Scientific applications -Applications using multicore and/or GPUs Distributed and cloud computing -Reliability, availability and security in distributed and cloud systems -Distributed and cloud storage systems -Distributed and cloud infrastructure technologies -Distributed caching, and query processing -Workload characterization of cloud systems -Managing, debugging, and diagnosing of cloud systems -Peer-to-peer computing -Grid computing -Pervasive and mobile computing architectures -Security in networks and distributed systems Important Dates: 1.Paper submission due: April 10, 2015 2.Review due: May 17, 2015 3.Online-discussion due: May 27, 2015 4.Notification to authors: June 5, 2015 5.Camere-ready due:June 25,2015 6.APPT conference:Aug 20-21,2015 General Chairs: Endong Wang, Inspur, China Yong Dou, National University of Defense Technology, China Steering Committee Chairs Yong Dou, National University of Defense Technology, China Steering Committee: Zhenzhou Ji, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Dongsheng Wang, Tsinghua University, China Xingwei Wang, Northeastern University, China Minyou Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Gongxuan Zhang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China Junjie Wu, National University of Defense Technology, China Organization Chairs： Weifeng Gong, Inspur, China Zhiping Jia, Shandong University, China Organization Committee(Ordered by alphabet of last name): Lei Ju, Shandong University,China Xin Li, Shandong University,China Yibin Li, Shandong University,China Lizhao Liu, Inspur, China Lu Lu, Inspur, China Jiehui Si, Inspur, China Program Chairs: Yunji Chen, Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Paolo Ienne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland Qing Ji, Inspur, China Programme Committee (Ordered by alphabet of last name): Yiran Chen, University of Pittsburgh, USA Lizhong Chen, Oregon State University, USA Albert Cohen, INRIA, France Reetuparan Das, Intel Labs, USA Stijn Eyerman, Ghent University, Belgium Michael Ferdman, Stony Brook University,USA Junli Gu, AMD, China Qi Guo, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wei Chung Hsu, National Chaio Tung University, China(Taiwan) Weixing Ji , Beijing institute of Technology, China Guoliang Jin, North Carolina State University, USA Wolfgang Karl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Jangwoo Kim, POSTECH, Korea John Kim, KAIST, Korea Tao Li, University of Florida, USA Xiaofei Liao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Purdue ECE, USA Brandon Lucia, University of Washington, USA Ozcan Ozturk, Bilkent University, Turkey Thomas Pawlowski, Micron, USA Smruti Sarangi, IIT, India Rui Wang, Beihang University, China Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA Yuan Xie, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Yi Yang, NEC Laboratories America, USA Pen-Chung Yew, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA Qing Yi, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Zhibin Yu, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China Antonia Zhai, University of Minnesota, USA Huiyang Zhou, NC State University, USA Publicity and Exhibition Chairs: Yu Tao, Inspur, China Wei Chen, National University of Defense of Technology, China Publication Chairs: Junjie Wu, National University of Defense Technology, China Dong Zhang, Inspur, China