The Computer Society of Iran (CSI), and the Electrical & Computer Engineering School at Shiraz University, are jointly organizing the 16th symposium on Computer Architecture and Digital Systems CADS2012 to be held on May 2-3, 2012 in Shiraz, Iran. During this period, the symposium will host researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners in the fields of computer architectures and digital systems, to exchange their latest research results and findings. CADS 2012 tries to bring together the leading engineers and scientists from around the world.

All accepted papers will be indexed by IEEEXplore and shall appear in the conference proceedings. After the Conference, a selected number of best papers shall be expanded and revised for publishing in a special issue of the Iranian Journal of Science & Technology (IJST) (ISSN: 1028-6284) , which is indexed by ISI.