Call For Papers

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Overview

Following the traditions of previous successful NPC conferences, NPC-09 (Gold Coast, Australia), NPC-10 (Zhengzhou, China), and NPC-11 (Changsha, Hunan, China). The objective of the 9th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2012) 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 include, but not limited to :

• Virtualization techniques, tools, and applications
• Parallel programming models and languages
• Parallel language compiler and run-time support
• Parallel and distributed systems
• Network architecture and protocol design
• Network Security
• Network Storage
• Network reliability, security, and dependability
• Network algorithms
• Communication technology
• Scheduling and load balancing
• Advanced Web and Proxy Services
• Middleware Frameworks and Toolkits
• Performance modeling, prediction, and tuning
• Multi-core and cluster computing
• Ubiquitous Communications and Networks
• USN and RFID
• Embedded and Pervasive Computing
• Peer to Peer Networks
• Social Network and Services
• Multimedia Communications
• Cloud Computing and Network
• Machine to Machine Communications
• Runtime systems
• Operating systems
• Resource management
• Data mining

Organizing Committee

• Honorary Chair
  • Daesik Ko, President of KIIT, Korea / Professor, Mokwon University, Korea


• General Chairs
  • James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, SeoulTech, Korea
  • Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Zhiwei Xu, Inst of Computing Tech, China


• Program Chairs
  • Martin Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea
  • Yu Chen, State University of New York, USA
  • Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA
  • Li Zha, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China


• Workshop Chairs
  • Changhoon Lee, SeoulTech, Korea
  • Weisong Shi, Wayne State U., USA
  • Chun-Cheng Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan


• Steering Committee
  • Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing, USA (Chair)
  • Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
  • Chen Ding, University of Rochester, USA
  • Jack Dongarra, Univ of Tennessee, USA
  • Guangrong Gao, Univ of Delaware, USA
  • Daniel Reed, Univ of North Carolina, USA
  • Yang Xiang, Central Queensland U, Australia
  • Zhiwei Xu, Inst of Computing Tech, China
  • Yoichi Muraoka, Waseda Univ, Japan
  • Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA
  • Guojie Li, The Institute of Computing Technology, China


• Publicity Chairs
  • Hoojin Lee, Hansung University, Korea
  • Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France
  • Hsi-Ya Chang, National Center for High Performance Computing,Taiwan
  • Ibrahim Kamel, University of Sharjah, UAE
  • Li Shen, NUDT, China


• Finance Chair
  • Yang-Sun Lee, Mokwon University, Korea

Submission Guidelines

Papers must strictly adhere to page limits as follows.

- Full Paper: 8 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost)
- Regular Paper: 6 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost)
Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

A submitted paper must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 10 pages in LNCS style, including tables and figures, and must be formatted in PDF format. You can find the LNCS formatting information on http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Submission of a paper entails a commitment that, if the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work.

Online Submission System : http://www.editorialsystem.net/npc2012/

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Submitting a paper to NPC 2012 means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the paper.

Important Dates

• Workshop proposals due: December 10, 2011
• Full paper submission due: April 15, 2012 April 30, 2012 (Final Extension)
• Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2012 (Extended)
• Camera-ready paper upload due: May 30, 2012
• Authors registration due: May 30, 2012
• Conference dates: September 6-8, 2012

Publications

The Conference Proceedings will be published as LNCS (indexed by EI and ISTP) series published by Springer (confirmed). Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation.

Distinguished selected papers accepted and presented in NPC 2012, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals:

- The Journal of Supercomputing - Springer (SCI)
- Cluster Computing (CC) - Springer (SCI-E)
- Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), Springer (Open Access)
- Journal of Convergence (JoC), FTRA Publising
- International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC), InderScience.

                   

Call for Workshops

We encourage researches to submit their workshop proposals (according to the guidelines available at NPC-11 web site to Prof. Changhoon Lee (cryptography1@gmail.com) with the subject "NPC-12 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL". http://www.npc2012.org/workshops.php

Awards

The organizing committee will offer FTRA best paper for the best paper, which will be presented at the banquet.

Contacts

If you have any questions about the CFPs and papers submission,
please email to Prof. Jong Hyuk Park (parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com) and Prof. Sang-Soo Yeo (sangsooyeo@gmail.com).