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the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed 
Processing with Applications (ISPA-09)

Chengdu and Jiuzhai Valley, China, 10-12 August 2009
http://grid.hust.edu.cn/ISPA2009
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Introduction
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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. 


Topics
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The 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 
* High-performance scientific and engineering computing


Schedule
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Workshop proposals due: Feb. 18 2009
Full paper due: March 16 2009 
Notification of acceptance:  April 27 2009
Camera-ready paper & early registration due: May 18 2009
Conference: August 9-12 2009 


Submissions
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The conference and workshop proceedings will be published by Conference Publishing Services. Papers not exceed 15 pages with free layout style should be submitted via http://cse.stfx.ca/~ispa09/sub/

And workshop submitted papers are within 6 pages. Submission of a paper should be 
regarded as a commitment that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the 
authors will register and attend the conference. Otherwise papers will be 
removed from IEEE CS digital library. A selection of the best papers will 
be published in special issues of some SCIE/EI indexed journals.


Call for Workshops
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We encourage researches to submit their workshop proposals 
(according to the guidelines available at ISPA-09 web site to 
Dr Guojun Wang (csgjwang@gmail.com) (and cc to Dr Jinjun Chen (jchen@swin.edu.au), or 
Dr Deqing Zou (deqingzou@hust.edu.cn)) with the subject "ISPA-09 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL".


Tour after conference
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After conference, we will set up a tour to Jiuzhai Valley, "kingdom of fairy tale", for 3 days. 


Awards
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The organizing committee will offer IEEE TCSC best paper awards for the best paper and the 
best presentation, which will be presented during the banquet and at the close of the 
conference respectively.

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