​15th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC2017) AusPDC 2017 (http://www.ozcom.org/auspdc2017/) will be held in Geelong Australia in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week (http://acsw2017.deakin.edu.au/), January 31 - February 3, 2017, during the season of Australian Open. News Updated: Due to numerous requests from authors, the paper submission deadline has been extended to 22 August. Journal special issue opportunities are available, please visit http://acsw2017.deakin.edu.au/special-issue-journals/ Scope of the Symposium In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following a couple of successful events, it comes to the 15th this year in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include (but not limited to): Cloud computing Grid and Cluster computing Big Data processing and analytics Data storage, placement and replication Multi-core systems Peer-to-peer computing GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors Service computing and workflow management Managing large distributed data sets Middleware and tools Performance evaluation and modeling Datacentre and Interconnection networks Performance accelerators Problem-solving environments Parallel programming models, languages and compilers Operating systems and runtime systems Fog/edge computing and software defined networks Mobile, sensor networks and Internet of things Resource scheduling and load balancing Data mining and machine learning Computational Science and Engineering Agent-based computing Reliability, security, privacy and dependability e-Science and e-Health Applications The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Paper Submission The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM (EI Index) together with ACSW 2017. Papers should be formatted according to ACM conference paper formatting guidelines ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. The following guidelines must be met for all submissions: Submissions must be in English. Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers. Submissions must be in PDF format. Other formats will not be accepted. Submissions must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference. Authors must choose the appropriate satellite conference or workshop for your submission Papers are to be submitted via the ACSW 2017 Easy Chair Submission Site. Upon logging into the system, please select “New Submission”, then select "Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing" track and proceed through the steps for submission. Every submission will be reviewed by a minimum of three members of the program committee. Important Dates Paper submissions due : August 22, 2016 (Extended) Author notification: October 17, 2016 Camera-ready full papers due: November 7, 2016. Committee General Co-Chairs Albert Zomaya The University of Sydney, Australia Wanlei Zhou Deakin University, Australia Jinjun Chen University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee Co-Chairs Xiao Liu Deakin University, Australia Dong Yuan The University of Sydney, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs Fang Dong Southeast University, China Wei Li The University of Sydney, Australia Publication Co-Chairs Qiang He Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Wei Bao The University of Sydney, Australia Local Organization Chair Longxiang Gao Deakin University, Australia Program Committee Members David Abramson Monash University, Australia Peter Bertok RMIT, Australia Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia Mingsong Chen East China Normal University, China Phoebe Chen La Trobe University, Australia Lizhen Cui Shandong University, China Fang Dong Southeast University, China Xiaoliang Fan Lanzhou University, China Haiwu He Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Qiang He Swinburne University of Technology Zhiyi Huang Otago University, NZ Wayne Kelly Queensland University of Technology, Australia Young Choon Lee Macquarie University, Australia Weifa Liang Australian National University, Australia Li Pan Shandong University, China Jun Shen University of Wollongong, Australia Michael Sheng The University of Adelaide, Australia Sheng Wen Deakin University, Australia Andrew Wendelborn The University of Adelaide, Australia Yang Xiang Deakin University, Australia Jingling Xue The University of New South Wales, Australia Jun Yan University of Wollongong, Australia Yun Yang Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rui Zhang The University of Melbourne, Australia Xuyun Zhang The University of Auckland Albert Zomaya The University of Sydney, Australia Steering Committee David Abramson Monash University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen (Vice Chair) Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Paul Coddington University of Adelaide, Australia Andrzej Goscinski (Chair) Deakin University, Australia Kenneth Hawick Massey University, NZ John Hine Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Rajiv Ranjan University of NSW, Australia Wyne Kelly Queensland University of Technology, Australia Paul Roe Queensland University of Technology, Australia Andrew Wendelborn University of Adelaide, Australia _________________________ Dr. Xiao Liu BMgt, MMgt, PhD Senior Lecturer - Information Technology (International Partnerships) School of Information Technology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC 3125. 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