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.

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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