[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 13th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2015) http://auspdc.scem.uws.edu.au held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 27-30 January 2015. Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************** CALL FOR PAPERS *********************** OVERVIEW/SCOPE: 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 13th 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 * Big Data * Grid computing * Cluster computing * Multicore 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 modelling * Interconnection networks * Performance accelerators * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Runtime systems * Operating systems * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining * Computational Science and Engineering * Agent-based computing * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * Applications and e-Science PAPER SUBMISSION ************************ Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 pages. All submissions must conform to the CRPIT formatting style. Formatting instructions can be found at http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. The proceedings of the symposium will be published through the Australian Computer Society Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series, under the title ACSW Frontiers 2015. The proceedings are included in the ACM digital library. ACCEPTED PAPERS ************************ * Regular Paper: will be published in the conference proceedings and have the oral presentation during the conference. * Poster Paper: will be published in the conference proceedings and have the poster presentation during the conference. * Short Paper: will be published in the conference proceedings and have the oral presentation during the conference (recommended for Doctoral theses). SPECIAL ISSUE ************************ Selected best papers will be published in the high quality international journals. BEST PAPER AWARDS ************************ * Best Paper Award: Presented to the outstanding paper. * CORE Best Student Paper Award: Presented by CORE to the outstanding student paper. PROGRAM CHAIRS *************************** Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney, Australia Saurabh Kumar GARG, University of Tasmania, Australia PUBLICITY CHAIR *************************** Javid Taheri, The University of Sydney, Australia IMPORTANT DATES *************************** Manuscript submission deadline: 1 September, 2014 Acceptance notification: 7 October, 2014 Camera-ready paper deadline: 28 October, 2014 Conference: 27-30 January, 2015