[TCPP-announce] TCPP Dec-07 Newsletter - Service award result, PhD forum update, etc.


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Dear TCPP member,

I am happy to announce that the inaugural TCPP Outstanding Service Award
goes to Professor Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California! The
awards committee was chaired by Professor Arnold Rosenberg, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, and had distinguished membership of Rajkumar Buyya,
Michel Cosnard, Jack Dongarra, Jose Fortes, Allan Gottlieb, Geppino Pucci,
Assaf Schuster, Behrooz Shirazi, Jie Wu, and Albert Zomaya. As you know,
Professor Prasanna has a long career of enabling high-quality research on
parallel and distributed processing - Founder of TCPP, Leader of
International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) and
International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC),
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers, too many to name. The
committee restricted itself to just one award this year to highlight his
unique contributions. We will formally present the award at the next IPDPS
in Miami. Congratulations Viktor!

An updated set of instructions for TCPP PhD Forum at IPDPS 2008 is now
available at http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2008/2008_phdforum.html with a
two-page abstract deadline of January 15, 2008. A primary intent is for
students at their proposal stage to get feedback on their research agenda
from the community experts. More advanced students will also benefit: both
from steering and validation of their research direction and results, and
from networking with expert audience from industry and academia. The
research area of interest is broad enough to accommodate all the TCPP
sponsored/co-sponsored conference topics. TCPP will give out a number of
travel awards to support the students. I encourage PhD students to avail
themselves of this new opportunity.

In this newsletter, we have created a separate section for the TCPP
sponsored/co-sponsored and related events for you to get timely and brief
updates on their upcoming deadlines/extensions as well as their current
activities. This section is followed by the calendar of announcements
submitted in the past several weeks to TCPP-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Regards,

Sushil

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TCPP Related Events
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IPDPS-08: 22nd IEEE Intl Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
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April 14-18, 2008 Hyatt Regency Hotel Miami, Florida USA
http://www.ipdps.org/

- Workshops: There are a few workshops still accepting papers.

PDSEC: Workshop on Parallel and Dist Scientific and Engineering Computing
Deadline: Dec 16

MTAAP: Workshop on Multithreaded Architectures and Applications
Deadline: Dec 23

SMTPS: Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services
Deadline: Dec 24

- Commercial presentations: Commercial Participation at IPDPS 2008 takes
place on Tues, Wed, & Thurs, April 15-17, 2008, the three days that regular
conference technical sessions are held and the period of highest conference
attendance.
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2008/2008_commercial.html

- TCPP Ph.D. Forum at IPDPS-08
Jan 15, 2008 2-page Extended Abstract Due

- Advanced Registration open until 24 March 2008.


HiPC-07: The 14th IEEE Intl Conf on High Performance Computing
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Dec 18-21, 2007 - Goa, India, Conference Venue: Cidade-de-Goa
http://www.hipc.org

- Next week, HiPC-07 will have five keynotes and two invited talks, two
tutorials, 53 contributed papers, four workshops, a poster session, and a
mini symposium. The mini symposium will bring together providers and users
of HPC to provide a forum for presenting the state-of-the-art in HPC
platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices and for exchanging
experiences. TCPP is sponsoring HiPC best poster awards.


PerComm-08: IEEE Intl Conf on Pervasive Computing and Communications
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March 17-21, 2008 Kowloon, Hong Kong
http://www.percom.org

- IEEE PerCom 2008 will be the sixth annual conference on the emerging area
of pervasive computing and communications aimed at providing an exciting
platform and paradigm for all the time, everywhere services.

- Main Features: 19 Full Papers and 6 Concise Contributions, Three Keynote
speeches, Two Panels, Poster Session with 9 Posters, 10 Workshops,
Demonstration session


AICCSA-08: The 6th Intl Conf on Computer Systems and Applications
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March 31 - April 4, 2008, Doha, Qatar
http://www.aiccsa08.org

- AICCSA is the premier Computer Science and Engineering Conference in the
Middle East and North Africa.


ICAC 2007: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing
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June 2-6, 2008 Chicago, IL, USA
http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~icac2008/

- The purpose of ICAC-08 is to bring together researchers and practitioners
to address all aspects of self-management in computing systems. In doing so,
we will continue to develop and nurture a growing community that can work
together to realize the vision of scalable self-managing systems. The
conference builds on previous highly influential meetings in New York,
Seattle, Dublin and Jacksonville.

Mar 3, 2008 Workshop proposals due
Mar 3, 2008 Demo/Exhibit proposals due


DCOSS 2007: Intl Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
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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

Jan 28, 2008: Papers Due


HPDC 2008: 7th Intl Conference on High Performance Distributed Computing
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June 23-27, 2008 Boston
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.

January 14, 2008 Abstract Submissions
January 21, 2008 Paper Submissions
March 17, 2008 Hot Topics Submission Deadline


ICPS 2008: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services
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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.

February 1, 2008 Submission deadline
January 11, 2008 Workshop proposals due
March 28, 2008 Tutorial proposals due


PACT 2008: 7th Intl Conf. on Parallel Architectures and Compilation
Techniques
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October 25-29, 2008 Toronto, Canada
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/pact/

- The purpose of PACT is to bring together researchers from architecture,
compilers, applications and languages to present and discuss innovative
research of common interest.

March 20, 2008 Abstracts due
March 28, 2008 Papers due


ICPADS-2007: 13th Intl Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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5-7 December 2007 Hsinchu, Taiwan
http://www.ccrc.nthu.edu.tw/icpads2007/

- The conference 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. The
conference just wrapped up, featuring 3 keynotes, 4 workshops, and 16
sessions of contributed papers.

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TCPP is also co-sponsoring best poster awards at e-science-07 (
http://www.escience2007.org/) and best paper awards at ICDCN-08 (
http://www.icdcn.org/), as part of its collaboration with its sister
Technical Committees and to initiate new relationships.


Call for Proposals
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- NSF Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions)
A new NSF CISE program called "Expeditions in Computing" (Expeditions)
provides the opportunity for the computing research community to pursue
ambitious, compelling, and transformative research agendas that promise
disruptive innovations in the computing and information fields. Funded at
levels up to $2,000,000 per year for five years, awarded projects are
expected to explore far-reaching research and education activities motivated
by hard problems and/or compelling applications. Teams of investigators
from within or across departments or institutions are encouraged to combine
their expertise and talents to forge well-integrated research appropriate
for the Expeditions program. More information about Expeditions is
available at http://nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07592/nsf07592.htm. Note the
following deadlines: a Letter of Intent was due November 5, 2007, and the
Preliminary Proposal is due December 30, 2007. It is estimated that only 20
collaborating teams will be invited to submit a full proposal due on April
1, 2008, with only 3 of those proposals anticipated for award.

- NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) The NSF has just
announced its newest multidisciplinary, multi-year initiative:
"Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)." CDI aims to create
revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by
innovations and advances in "computational thinking." Computational thinking
is defined comprehensively as computational concepts, methods, models,
algorithms, and tools. Applied in challenging science and engineering
research and education contexts, computational thinking promises a profound
impact on the Nation's ability to generate and apply new knowledge.
Collectively, CDI research outcomes are expected to produce paradigm shifts
in our understanding of a wide range of science and engineering phenomena
and socio-technical innovations that create new wealth and enhance the
national quality of life. For additional information about CDI, including
frequently asked questions, please refer to
http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/cdi. Examples of motivating science
and/or engineering research and education
opportunities can also be found there. This list is provided for purposes of
illustration only; it is neither exhaustive, nor indicative of preference
regarding research areas.


Books
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- Parallel Metaheuristics: A New Class of Algorithms
Enrique Alba
ISBN: 0-471-67806-6
Hardcover
576 pages
September 2005

This book includes both sequential and parallel descriptions and
applications of most metaheuristic techniques. Every chapter introduces the
basic technique, defines the possible parallel extensions, and illustrates
the application in real scenarios (not simply benchmarking).

A large amount of applications are solved in the book, from the fields of
combinatorial optimization, telecommunications, bioinformatics, and many
others. Researchers looking for new advanced techniques able of improving
the present state of the art will found in this book a large number of
techniques to do so (not only parallelism, but also hybridization,
constraint satisfaction, etc.).


Call for Papers
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Dec 21, 2007
The 9th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing
April 29 - May 1, 2008 Center for Supercomputing Applications University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana Illinois, USA. CALL FOR PAPERS,
TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS AND TUTORIALS DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION National
Extended to next Friday.
http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/conferences/

Dec 23, 2007
PPABS: Workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator-Based Systems, held
in conjunction with PPoPP'08, February 23, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT.
http://www.checs.eng.vt.edu/ppabs08.html

Dec 24, 2007
SMTPS-08: The Fourth International Workshop on System Management Techniques,
Processes, and Services in conjunction with The 22th IEEE International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008) 14-18 April 2008.
http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~yyzhang/ipdps-ws/

Jan 4, 2008
Workshop on Autonomics for Grids and Datacenters (CCGrid 2008), Lyon,
France, May 19-22, 2008
http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/agd2008/

Jan 5, 2008
UIC-08: The 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and
Computing - Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces Organized by Oslo
University College and University of Stavanger, Norway, Oslo, Norway, June
23-25, 2008
http://www.iu.hio.no/uic08/

Jan 7, 2008
ICA3PP-2008: The 8th International Conference on Algorithms and
Architectures for Parallel Processing, June 9-11, 2008, Cyprus
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ica3pp08/

Jan 10, 2008
NAS'08: International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage,
June 12-14, 2008, Chongqing, China
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~taoxie/nas/

Jan 21, 2008
WTS 2008: The 7th IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium April 24-26,
2008, Kellogg West Conference Center, California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona
www.csupomona.edu/wtsi

Jan 25, 2008
CSE 2008: IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and
Engineering, July 16-18, 2008 - Sao Paulo - Brazil
http://www.icmc.usp.br/cse08

Jan 25, 2008
Euro-Par 2008: 14th International Euro-Par Conference European Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Computing, August 26-29th, 2008, ULPGC, Las Palmas
de Gran Canaria, Spain
http://europar2008.caos.uab.es

Jan 28, 2007
SCC 2008: IEEE International Conference on Services Computing July 8-11,
2008, Hawaii, USA
http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2008/

Feb 4, 2008
ICPP 2008: 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing, Portland,
OR. September 8-12, 2008.
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~icpp2008/

Mar 1, 2008
SEKE'08: The Twentieth International Conference on Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering will be held at Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City,
California, USA, July 1-3, 2008.
http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke08main.html

April 14, 2008
ACM SenSys 2008The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems,
November 5 - 7, 2008 Raleigh, NC
http://sensys.acm.org/2008/

May 15, 2008 META'2008: International Conference on Metaheuristics and
Nature Inspired Computing, 29-31 Oct 2008, Hammamet, Tunisia
http://www.lifl.fr/META08


Call for Paper for Special Journal Issue
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Jan 31, 2008
Special Issue (Volume 2, Issue 1) on Collaborative Supply Chain Management
for Int. J. of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
www.igi-global.com/ijisscm
Guest Editor: Jairo R. Montoya-Torres jairo.montoya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Call for Workshop Proposal
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Dec 26, 2007
ECOOP 2008: 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP
2008 is held in July 2008 in Paphos, Cyprus.
http://2008.ecoop.org/

Mar 3, 2008
ICAC 2008: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Chicago, IL, USA June, 2008
http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~icac2008/


Call for Participation
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Dec 18-21, 2007
HiPC-07: 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance
Computing, Goa, India.
http://www.hipc.org

Dec 17-20, 2007 OPODIS'07: International Conference On Principles Of
Distributed
Systems, Guadeloupe, French West Indies, December 17-20th, 2007
www.opodis.net

March 17-21, 2008
PerComm-08: IEEE Intl Conf on Pervasive Computing and Communications,
Kowloon, Hong Kong
http://www.percom.org

April 14-18, 2008
IPDPS-08: 22nd IEEE Intl Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, Hyatt
Regency Hotel Miami, Florida USA
http://www.ipdps.org/

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