Following the traditions of previous successful ISPA conferences, ISPA-03 (Aizu, Japan), ISPA-04 (Hong Kong), ISPA-05 (Nanjing, China), ISPA-06 (Sorrento, Italy), ISPA-07 (Niagara Falls, Canada) and ISPA-08 (Sydney, Australia), the objective of ISPA-09 is to provide a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, research results, and applications about all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and networking. It will feature session presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. ISPA-09 is sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and IEEE Computer Society.

The Conference invites papers on all aspects of Parallel/Distributed Computing and Networking, and their applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·   Virtualization techniques, tools, and applications

·   Computer networks

·   Network routing and communication algorithms

·   Parallel/distributed system architectures

·   Tools and environments for software development

·   Parallel/distributed algorithms

·   Distributed systems and applications

·   Wireless networks, mobile and pervasive computing

·   Reliability, fault-tolerance, and security

·   Performance evaluation and measurements

·   Grid and cluster computing

·   Internet computing and web services

·   Database applications and data mining