The 7th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies APPT'07

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APPT’07 will be the 7th annual conference on parallel processing technologies aimed at providing an exciting platform and paradigm attracting professionals of different communities such as industry and academic. Although the original objective is to share the experience in the area of the parallel processing technology with the underlying theories and applications, more and more work will be focused on state-of-the-art research and projects due to the tremendous advances in wireless networks, mobile computing, sensor networks, distributed computing, and novel computing model and technologies.

APPT’07 will provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers alike to present their latest research in parallel processing technologies and extensive fields. APPT’07 will also feature industry exhibits and demonstrations.

Feature Topics:

• Parallel/distributed system architectures
• Advanced microprocessor architecture,
• Middleware, software tools and environments
• Parallelizing compilers
• Software engineering issues
• Interconnection networks
• Network protocols
• Task scheduling and load balancing
• Grid computing, cluster computing, peer-to-peer computing
• Internet & web computing
• Pervasive and mobile computing architectures
• Security in networks and distributed systems
• Fault tolerance and dependability
• Smart devices and smart spaces
• Multimedia communication
• Image generation, encoding, transmission, and processing
• Rendering techniques, virtual reality
• Visualization, graphic processing, etc

Submission Guidelines:

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not currently under consideration elsewhere for publication. Only electronic submissions (PS or PDF) will be considered. Page limit is at most 15 pages (single column, 11pt fonts and 1.5 line spaced, excluding references, figures and tables). Detailed procedure can be found here . All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical program committee. The Conference Proceedings are planned to be published as the volume of the Springer Verlag LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series and will be distributed at the Conference.

Important Dates:

• June 15, 2007, Draft Paper Due
• Sept. 1, 2007, Demonstration Proposal Due
• Aug. 1, 2007, Paper Acceptance Notification
• Sept. 1, 2007, Camera Ready Manuscript Due
• Nov. 22-23, 2007, Conference Dates

Keynotes：

• Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode, Technical University of Munich, Germany, http://wwwbode.cs.tum.edu/~bode
• Prof. Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, http://personals.ac.upc.edu/mateo
• Prof. Babara Chapman, Huston University, USA, http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~chapman

Sponsored by

• Architecture Professional Committee of China Computer Federation
• National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China
• Guangdong University of Technology, China

In cooperation with:

IEEE TCPP, IEEE-HK, Guangdong Computer Federation of CCF