Apologies to those who get this multiple = times.

(especially twice in one = day, I was trying to be nice and put recipients in Bcc, but some lists = don't like that.)

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PDCAT08 Call For = Papers

The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed = Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT) is a major forum for = scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present = the latest research, results, ideas, developments and applications in = all areas of parallel and distributed computing. Following PDCAT'00 in = Hong Kong, PDCAT'01 in Taipei, PDCAT'02 in Kanazawa, Japan, PDCAT'03 in = Chengdu, China, PDCAT'04 in Singapore, PDCAT'05 in Dalian, China, = PDCAT'06 in Taipei, Taiwan, and PDCAT'07 in Adelaide, Australia, = PDCAT'08 will be in Dunedin, New Zealand. We are inviting new and = unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following = topics:

1. Networking and Architectures
1-01 Interconnection = networks
1-02 Parallel/distributed architectures
1-03 = Heterogeneous and multimedia Systems
1-04 Multi-core related = technologies
1-05 Reliability, and fault-tolerance
1-06 Ubiquitous = computing systems
1-07 Computer networks
1-08 Communication and = telecommunication
1-09 Wireless networks and mobile
1-10 Optical = networks
1-11 Grid computing systems
1-12 Reconfigurable = architecture

2. Software Systems and Technologies
2-01 Formal = methods and programming languages
2-02 Internet computing
2-03 = Image processing and computer vision
2-04 Agent technologies
2-05 = Operating systems
2-06 Software tools and environments
2-07 = Parallelizing compilers
2-08 Web services
2-09 Component-based and = OO Technology
2-10 Simulation and Visualization

3. Algorithms = and Applications
3-01 Parallel/distributed algorithms
3-02 Task = mapping and job scheduling
3-03 Distributed data and knowledge based = systems
3-04 Image processing and computer graphics
3-05 = High-performance scientific computing
3-06 Reconfigurable = high-performance computing
3-07 Resource allocation and = management
3-08 Network routing and communication algorithms
3-09 = Bioinformatics
3-10 Database applications and data mining
3-11 = Intelligent computing and neural networks

4. Security and = Privacy
4-01 Access control and authorization
4-02 Authentication, = biometrics, smartcards
4-03 Distributed systems security
4-04 = Mobile code and mobile agent security
4-05 RFID applications
4-06 = Privacy preserving computation
4-07 Applied cryptography
4-08 = Database security
4-09 Intrusion detection and survivability
4-10 = P2P and ad-hoc networks
4-11 Security protocols

Key = Dates:

Paper submission deadline (extended): June 15, = 2008
Author notification: Aug 1, 2008
Camera-ready version due: = Sep 1, 2008
Conference: Dec 1-4, 2008

PAPER SUBMISSION = GUIDELINES

Papers reporting original and unpublished research = results and experience are solicited. Papers will be selected based on = their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of = presentation. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the = conference proceedings.

Submissions should include abstract, key = words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not = exceed 10 pages of single column, including tables and figures. = Submissions imply the willingness of at least one author to register, = attend the conference, and present the paper. Submissions to PDCAT'08 = are made electronically. Authors should upload their manuscripts in the = PDF format with file name including an appropriate topic code in the = file name of each manuscript. For example, if author Ray submits a paper = in the topic of Interconnection networks, the file name should be = 1-01_Ray. If you cannot find a suitable topic for your paper, please use = the subject code "0-00". The conference proceedings of PDCAT'08 will be = published in English by IEEE Computer Society and cited by Engineering = Information (EI). Extended versions of selected papers are to be = published in a special issue of The Journal of = Supercomputing.

More information can be found at http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/pdcat= 08.