12th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing A Coruña, Spain, February 11-13 2004 http://pdp2004.des.fi.udc.es Submission Deadline: June 13, 2003 The Twelfth Euromicro Conference covers all the fields of high-performance computing, from the end-user applications to new scientific results in architectures, models and languages. The conference provides a forum for the presentation of all the issues related to parallel, distributed and network computing. This year the scope of the conference is further expanded with additional themes to emphasize computer graphics applications and internet-based infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: * Advanced Applications: multi-disciplinary applications, parallel databases, computations over irregular domains, numerical applications with multi-level parallelism, real time distributed applications, distributed business applications. * Distributed Systems: distributed databases, distributed OO systems, distributed operating systems, heterogeneous distributed systems, distributed algorithms, distributed shared memory systems, distributed agent systems and applications. * Languages, Compilers and Runtime Support Systems: task and data parallel languages, functional and logic languages, object-oriented languages, dependability issues, scheduling and load balancing, task and object migration. * Models and Tools for Parallel Programming Environments: performance prediction and analysis, simulation, knowledge-based parallel program development, visualization tools. * Network-based and Internet-based Computing: web computing, cluster computing, computational grids, data grids, metacomputing, hypercomputing. * Parallel Computer Graphics: rendering/modelling/ simulation, graphics and visualisation in high-performance applications, parallel and distributed systems for photo- realistic rendering, task scheduling and data distribution for graphics applications, shared and distributed memory graphics systems, rendering realistically large models, parallel volume rendering. * Parallel Computer Systems: massively parallel machines, interconnection networks, embedded parallel and distributed systems, fault-tolerance, memory organization, support for parallel I/O. In addition, a number of special sessions will address hot topics. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 4000 words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract. To facilitate an anonymous reviewing process, the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract. Details for submission of papers are available at http://pdp2004.des.fi.udc.es Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present the paper at the Workshop. GENERAL INFORMATION The venue of the Workshop is A Coruña which lies at the extreme Northwest of Spain and forms part of the autonomous community of Galicia. A Coruña, known as a balcony onto the Atlantic, is a seaside city where you can enjoy many pleasant places from the Tower of Hercules, the two thousand year old lighthouse, to the charm of its squares and Romanesque and Baroque churches of the Old City. Near the city, the Rias Altas, the Costa da Morte (Death Coast), and a little bit further away, Santiago de Compostela, make the city of A Coruña an ideal base for hiking in a beatiful natural area. IMPORTANT DATES Closing date for submissions June 13, 2003 Acceptance notification September 27, 2003 Camera-ready version October 25, 2003 FOR MORE INFORMATION Access the PDP2004 homepage http://pdp2004.des.fi.udc.es, contact the Organizing Chairs, the Program Chair or the Euromicro Office Program Chair Paolo Cremonesi Dip. di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano v. Ponzio, 34/5 - 20133 - Milano, Italy Phone +39 0223993517 Fax +39 0223993411 Email: cremones@elet.polimi.it Organising Chairs Ramon Doallo Maria J. Martin (co-chair) Patricia Gonzalez (co-chair) Departamento de Electronica e Sistemas, Facultade de Informatica. Universidade da Coruña Campus de Elviña, s/n 15071 A Coruña, Spain Phone: +34 981167000 Fax: +34 981167160 Email: doallo@udc.es mariam@udc.es pglez@udc.es EUROMICRO http://www.euromicro.org P.O.Box 2043, D-53743 Sankt Augustin, Germany EMail: office@euromicro.org Phone: +49-2241-9326633 Fax: +49-2241-932-6746