[Beowulf] CFP: NPC 2005 (deadline extended: May 22, 05)

Wed May 11 19:45:08 PDT 2005

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                         ****Call for Papers of NPC 2005******

                          Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 2005, Beijing, China
                              http://grid.hust.edu.cn/npc05
                       Submission Deadline: May 22, 2005 (Extended)

The goal of IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel
Computing (NPC 2005) is to establish an international forum for engineers
and scientists to present their excellent ideas and experiences in all
system fields of network and parallel computing.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Parallel & Distributed Architectures
Parallel & Distributed Applications/Algorithms
Parallel Programming Environments and Tools
Network Security
Network Storage
Advanced Web and Proxy Services
Middleware Frameworks and Toolkits
Cluster & Grid Computing
Ubiquitous Computing
Peer-to-peer Computing
Multimedia Streaming Services
Performance Modeling/Evaluation

Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be considered for another
conference. Papers must be written in English, and they should be at most
12 pages long in total, less than 6000 words, including bibliography and
well-marked appendices. Authors also need to make sure that the
electronically submitted files will print on a PostScript printer that use
8.5§ç11 page paper. All submitted papers should be in PDF format. Author's
instructions can be found here.

The conference proceedings of NPC 2004 has been published by Springer
Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 3222 (cited by
SCI). And the conference proceedings of NPC 2005 also will be published by
Springer Verlag in the LNCS Series (to be confirmed), and cited by SCI.

Submission procedures will be available via Web access before long (no
email submission allowed). When the paper is received correctly, a
confirmation will be sent to your registered e-mail. If no electronic
access is available, contact the program chair at the address below:

Dr. Hai Jin, Professor
Director, Cluster and Grid Computing Lab
Vice-Dean, School of Computer
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan, 430074, China
Tel:    +86-27-87543529
Fax:   +86-27-87557354
E-mail: hjin at hust.edu.cn

Submissions received after the due date or exceeding the length limit may
not be considered. Notification of review decisions will be sent out by
July 15, 2005. Camera-ready manuscripts and registration will be due by
September 1, 2005.

Please note some important deadlines:

Paper Submission                              May  22, 2005
Author Notification                           July  1, 2005
Final Camera Ready Manuscript/Registration    August 1, 2005

Organizing Committees
 General Co-Chairs
Jean-Luc Gaudiot
University of California, Irvine, USA
Lionel Ni
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
 Steering Committee Chair
Kemal Ebcioglu
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
 Program Co-Chairs
Daniel Reed
University of North Carolina, USA
Hai Jin
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
 Publicity Chair
Cho-Li Wang
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
 Publication Chair
Wenbin Jiang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
 Finance Chair
Dan Meng
Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
 Registration Chair
Fang Liu
Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
 Local Arrangement Chair
Wen Gao
Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China

Keynote Speakers
Carl Chang
Iowa State University, USA
Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee, USA
Tony Hey
University of Southampton, UK
Tsugio Makimoto
Sony Corporation, Japan
Charles Nietubicz
Army Research Laboratory, USA
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
IBM, USA
Songnian Zhou
Platform Computing, Canada

Steering Committee Members
Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee, USA
Guangrong Gao
University of Delaware, USA
Jean-Luc Gaudiot
University of California, Irvine, USA
Guojie Li
Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Yoichi Muraoka
Waseda University, Japan
Daniel Reed
University of North Carolina, USA

Program Committee Members
Ishfaq Ahmad
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Makoto Amamiya
Kyushu University, Japan
David Bader
University of New Mexico, USA
Luc Bouge
IRISA/ENS Cachan, France
Pascal Bouvry
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Wentong Cai
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jiannong Cao
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Xueqi Cheng
Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Jong-Deok Choi
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Toni Cortes
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Chen Ding
University of Rochester, USA
Jianping Fan
Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Xiaobing Feng
Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Guangrong Gao
University of Delaware, USA
Minyi Guo
University of Aizu, Japan
Yanbo Han
Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Anura Jayasumana
Colorado State Univeristy, USA
Chris R. Jesshope
The University of Hull, UK
Chung-Ta King
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, China
Ricky Kwok
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Kuan-Ching Li
Providence University, Taiwan, China
Chuang Lin
Tsinghua University, China
Geyong Min
University of Bradford, UK
Soo-Mook Moon
Seoul National University, Korea
John Morrison
University College Cork, Ireland
Yi Pan
Georgia State University, USA
Wolfgang Rehm
TU Chemnitz, Germany
Sartaj Sahni
University of Florida, USA
Simon See
Sun Microsystems Inc., USA
Selvakennedy Selvadurai
University of Sydney, Australia
Franciszek Seredynski
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Hong Shen
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Xiaowei Shen
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Ivan Stojmenovic
University of Ottawa, Canada
Ninghui Sun
Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
El-Ghazali Talbi
University of Lille, France
Domenico Talia
University of Calabria, Italy
David Taniar
Monash University, Australia
Mitchell D. Theys
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Cho-Li Wang
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Weng-Fai Wong
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Chao-Tung Yang
Tunghai University, Taiwan, China
Laurence T. Yang
St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Qing Yang
University of Rhode Island, USA
Lixin Zhang
IBM Austin Research Laboratory, USA
Xiaodong Zhang
College of William and Mary, USA
Weimin Zheng
Tsinghua University, China
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