TCPP Newsletters
May 2008 Newsletter
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I invite you to visit our new address on the web: http://tcpp.computer.org. We have started putting together information on TCPP on the newly-created website, including student travel and other awards, PhD Forum, TCPP sponsored conferences, call for papers, events, open positions, link to TCPP membership application, newsletters, etc. Check it out periodically, as we gather additional resources useful to our community. Your suggestions and contributions are welcome.
I want to highlight three upcoming TCPP sponsored conferences: (i) DCOSS-08, Santorini Island, Greece, June 11-14, (ii) HPDC-08, Boston, USA, June 23-27, and (iii) ICPS 2008, Sorrento, Italy, July 6-10. Find links and more details on these below.
Here are the updates on TCPP related conferences followed by CFPs, etc., submitted in the past several weeks to tcpp-announce@cc.gatech.edu.
TCPP Related Events
DCOSS 2008: Intl Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
June
11-14, 2008 Santorini Island,
Greece
http://www.dcoss.org/
· The focus of the conference is on distributed computing issues in large-scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, and systematic design techniques and tools), but networking-related contributions that support high level abstractions are also welcome.
· New in 2008: Demo Session, Work-in-Progress Session, IJDSN Special Issue on Best Papers of DCOSS 08, Students Competition
HPDC 2008: 7th Intl Conference on High Performance Distributed Computing
June
23-27, 2008 Boston, USA
http://www.hpdc.org
High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) combines the advances in research and technologies in high speed networks, software, distributed computing and parallel processing to deliver high-performance, large-scale and cost-effective computational, storage and communication capabilities to a wide range of applications.
ICPS 2008: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services
July 6-10,
2008 Sorrento, Italy
http://icpsconference.org/
The 2008 International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'2008), to be held in Sorrento, Italy, provides a forum for researchers, engineers, application & service developers and users to present their latest advances in the field of pervasive services. Use cases and usage models for these pervasive services are of particular interest to the conference.
PACT 2008: 7th Intl Conf. on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
October
25-29, 2008 Toronto, Canada
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu
The purpose of PACT is to bring together researchers from architecture, compilers, applications and languages to present and discuss innovative research of common interest.
DS-RT 2008: The 12th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Systems and
Real Time Applications
October 27-29, 2008 Vancouver,
Canada
http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds
· DS-RT 2008 serves as a forum for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
ICPADS 2008: 14th International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Dec 8-10,
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.deakin.edu.au
· ICPADS provides an international forum for scientists, engineers, and users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of parallel and distributed systems.
HiPC-08: Intl. Conference on High Performance Computing
Dec 17-20,
2008 Bangalore, India
http://www.hipc.org
· The 14th meeting, held in Goa, India in December 2007, had 52 contributed papers that were selected from over 253 submissions from 31 countries and approximately 300 participants attended the meeting.
· September 15, 2008 - Student Symposium Submissions Due
PerCom-09: IEEE Intl Conf on Pervasive Computing and Communications
March
16-20, 2009, Dallas, USA
http://www.percom.org
· The sixth edition of IEEE's premier international conference on pervasive computing and communications, PerComm 2008 was held in Hong Kong. The conference comprising high quality technical sessions (19 full and 6 short papers), 2 keynote speeches, one panel, a PhD forum, 10 popular workshops, live demonstrations and work-in-progress posters, was attended by about 230 researchers from all over the world.
IPDPS-09: IEEE Intl Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
May, Rome, Italy
http://ipdps.org
Call for Papers
June 1, 2008
PM2HW2N 2008: 3rd
ACM International Workshop on Performance Monitoring, Measurement, and
Evaluation of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks
http://www.pm2hw2n.acca-group
October 27 - 31, 2008
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
June 15,
2008 (Extended)
ISPA'08: IEEE International
Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
Dec 10-12, 2008. Sydney, Australia
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/
June 15, 2008
META'2008: International Conference on Metaheuristics and
Nature Inspired Computing
29-31 Oct 2008
Hammamet, Tunisia
http://www.lifl.fr/META08
June 16,
2008
The 4th ACM/IEEE
Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
November
6-7, 2008, San Jose, California,
USA
http://www.ancsconf.org
June 20,
2008
ICPADS 2008: 14th International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Systems
Dec 8-10, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.deakin.edu.au
June 23,
2008
ICDCIT 2008: International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet
Technologies
http://www.icdcit08.org
30 June, 2008
IFMT'08: First International Forum on Next-Generation Multicore/Manycore
Technologies
Nov 24-25, 2008, Cairo, Egypt
http://ifmt.cs.man.ac.uk/
July 14,
2008
ICDCN 2009: 10th International
Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
January 3-6, 2009, Hyderabad, India
www.iiit.ac.in/ICDCN09
July 14, 2008
OPODIS'08: 12th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems
Luxor, Egypt
http://www.opodis.net
July 15,
2008
Third International Workshop on Reliability in Decentralized Distributed
Systems (RDDS 2008)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au
July 25, 2008
ACM SenSys 2008: Call for Posters and Demos
Raleigh, NC,
USA
http://sensys.acm.org/2008/
Aug 15, 2008
HiPC 2008, Student Research Symposium
www.hipc.org
Sept 1,
2008
Innovations'2008: 5th International
Conference on Innovations in Information Technology
December 16-18,
2008
Al Ain, United Arab
Emirates
http://www.it-innovations.ae/
Call for Special Issue
Aug 3, 2008
Computer Networks Special Issue on Resource Management in
Virtualized Data Centers
Guest Editors: Dr.
Krishna Kant, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro OR (Krishna.Kant@intel.com);
Dr. Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania
State University
(Bhuvan@cse.psu.edu)
Call for Tutorial Proposals
July 14, 2008
ICDCN 2009: 10th International
Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
January 3-6, 2009, Hyderabad, India
www.iiit.ac.in/ICDCN09
Call for Journal Article
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and
Networking (IJITN)
Editors-in-Chief: Michael R. Bartolacci,
The Pennsylvania State University - Berks, USA,
Steven R. Powell, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona,
USA
www.igi-global.com/ijitn
Call for Participation
June 8-9, 2008
SASP 2008:
6th IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors
Anaheim Convention Center,
Anaheim CA USA
http://www.sasp-conference.org
June 9 -
11, 2008
ICA3PP-2008: The 8th International
Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing
Agia
Napa, Cyprus
June 11-14, 2008
DCOSS 2008: Intl Conference on Distributed Computing in
Sensor Systems
Santorini
Island, Greece
http://www.dcoss.org/
June 23-27, 2008
HPDC 2008: 7th Intl Conference on High Performance
Distributed Computing
Boston, USA
http://www.hpdc.org
June
24-26, 2008
IEEE WoWMoM 2008 :9th
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia
Networks
June 23-26, 2008,
Newport Beach, CA, USA
http://wowmom08.ics.uci.edu
July 6-10, 2008
ICPS 2008: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive
Services
Sorrento, Italy
http://icpsconference.org/
July 8-11, 2008,
SCC 2008:
IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
http://conferences.computer
July 16-18, 2008
CSE 2008: IEEE 11th
International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sept 8-10, 2008
IEEE/ACM MASCOTS: 16th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and
Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
Baltimore, Maryland,
USA
http://www.mascots-conference
Sep. 12th, 2008
P2S2: First International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems
Software for High-end Computing, Portland, Oregon, USA
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events
October 25-29, 2008
PACT 2008: 7th Intl Conf. on Parallel Architectures and
Compilation Techniques
Toronto, Canada
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu
October 27-29, 2008
DS-RT 2008: The 12th IEEE International Symposium on
Distributed Systems and Real Time Applications
Vancouver, Canada
http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds
Dec 8-10, 2008
ICPADS 2008: 14th International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Systems
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.deakin.edu.au
Dec 17-20,
2008
HiPC 2008:15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance
Computing
Bangalore,
India
http://www.hipc.org
Open Positions
· Post-doc in
Web Service Process Adaptation in
the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of
Concordia, Montreal Canada. Apply by e-mail to Yuhong.Yan@unb.ca.
· Post-Doc in Networking and Distributed Computing, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University
at Buffalo (SUNY) in conjunction with NEC Labs of America, In anticipation for
an immediate funding, we are looking for a full-time postdoc to work in the area of grid
computing environments, application overlay networks, virtual topology design
over optical networks, virtualizable and/or programmable networks (e.g., GENI),
and parallel and distributed systems. Applicants should email Prof. Chunming
Qiao at qiao@computer.org, using the
subject line "Postdoc Applications",
a detailed CV, a 1-2 page research statement, and the names of at least three references.