SPAA defines the term ``parallel'' broadly, encompassing any computational system that can perform multiple operations or tasks simultaneously. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
Parallel and Distributed Data Structures
Green Computing and Power-Efficient Architectures
Management of Massive Data Sets
Parallel Complexity Theory
Parallel and Distributed Architectures
Multi-Core Architectures
Instruction Level Parallelism and VLSI
Compilers and Tools for Concurrent Programming
Supercomputer Architecture and Computing
Transactional Memory Hardware and Software
The Internet and the World Wide Web
Game Theory and Collaborative Learning
Routing and Information Dissemination
Resource Management and Awareness
Peer-to-Peer Systems
Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks
Robustness, Self-Stabilization and Security
Synergy of parallelism in algorithms, programming and architecture


Conference Presentation:

Regular presentations will be allotted a 25-minute talk and up to 10 pages in the proceedings. This format is intended for contributions reporting original research, submitted exclusively to this conference. Brief announcements will be allotted a 10-minute talk and a 2-page abstract (each marked as a brief announcement) in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief communications, which may be published later in other conferences.
Awards:

Every regular paper is eligible for the best paper award. The program committee may decline to make this award or may split the award among multiple papers.
Submissions:

Authors of contributed papers are encouraged to submit their manuscript electronically. More details will follow soon. The deadlines for electronic submissions are January 12 for regular papers and January 19 for brief announcements. These are firm deadlines. No extensions will be granted. Authors who are unable to submit electronically should contact the program chair, Rajmohan Rajaraman, to receive instructions. Do not send electronic submissions to this email address.

Papers submitted to SPAA may not be under simultaneous consideration for a journal or any conference or workshop with published proceedings (other than as a brief announcement for a previous conference).
Paper Submission Format:
The cover page should include

1. title,
2. authors and affiliation,
3. postal and e-mail address of the contact author,
4. a brief abstract describing the content of the paper, and
5. an indication of whether this is a regular presentation or a brief announcement

If requested by the authors, an extended abstract that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for the SPAA brief announcements. Such a request will not affect the consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.

Submissions of regular presentations should include the cover page followed by an introduction understandable to a nonspecialist including motivation and previous work, and a technical exposition directed to a specialist. It should not exceed 10 printed pages on letter-size paper in 11-point font or larger (excluding the cover page, the figures and the references). More details may be supplied in a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the program committee.

A submission for the SPAA brief announcements should be no longer than 3 pages (excluding the cover page) on letter-size paper using at least 11-point font.

For authors who are not sure about the right format, a simple Latex template can be accessed here.
Notification:

Authors will be sent notification of acceptance or rejection by e-mail or letter mailed on or before March 9. A camera-ready copy of each accepted abstract must be prepared according to the ACM guidelines for inclusion in the proceedings of the conference and must be received by March 30.

Program Chair
Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Program Committee
Marcos K. Aguilera (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, USA)
Susanne Albers, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Anne Beniot, ENS Lyon, France
Konstantin Busch, Louisiana State University, USA
Shimin Chen, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA
Frank Dehne, Carleton University, Canada
Rolf Fagerberg, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS and University Paris Diderot, France
Tom Friedetzky, Durham University, UK
MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, AT&T Research and University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Idit Keidar, Technion, Israel
Rohit Khandekar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, Georgia Tech, USA
Victor Luchangco, Sun Labs, Oracle, USA
Gopal Pandurangan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Brown University, USA
Geppino Pucci, University of Padova, Italy
Andrea W. Richa, Arizona State University, USA
Christian Schindelhauer, University of Freiburg, Germany
Sivan Toledo, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jennifer Welch, Texas A&M, USA