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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE HPCC 2015
17th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Communications
High Performance and Communications

http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc2015/index.html
August 24-26, 2015, New York, USA

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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: April 30, 2015 (extended)
Acceptance notification: June 15, 2015
Camera-ready papers: July 15, 2015
Conference Date: August 24-26, 2015

SCOPE
The HPCC-2015 conference is the 17th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Communications. It will provide a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. HPCC-2015 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC).

TOPIC OF INTEREST

1. Parallel and distributed system architectures
2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing
3. Parallel and distributed software technologies
4. Parallel and distributed algorithms
5. Embedded systems
6. Peer-to-peer computing
7. Grid and cluster computing
8. Web services and Internet computing
9. Cloud computing
10. Utility computing
11. Performance evaluation and measurement
12. Tools and environments for software development
13. Distributed systems and applications
14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing
15. Database applications and data mining
16. Biological/molecular computing
17. Collaborative and cooperative environments
18. Mobile computing and wireless communications
19. Computer Networks
20. Telecommunications
21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence
22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance
23. Trust, security and privacy

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

The accepted papers from this conference will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases (EI Compendex). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in several SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper.

Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE conference proceedings format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column). Papers should be submitted through the paper submission system at the conference website. Full Papers (up to 8 pages, or 12 pages with the over length charge) and Short Papers (up to 4 pages) are solicited. See Instructions for authors.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs
Meikang Qiu, Pace University, USA

General Co-Chairs
Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton University, USA
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Technical Program Committee Chairs
Yongxin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China
Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA

General Keynote Speakers
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton University, USA

Keynote Speakers
Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA

Steering Committee
Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Technical Program Committee
Hideharu Amano, Japan
Hamid R. Arabnia, USA
Saddek Bensalem, France
Zonghua Gu, Hong Kong
Rajiv Gupta, USA
Shih-Hao Hung, Taiwan
Eugene John, USA
Smail Niar, France
Sander Stuijk, Netherlands
Zili Shao, Hong Kong
Kostas Siozios, Greece
Yang Xiang, Australia