*** Preliminary Call for Papers *** The 14th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2015) 29 June - 2 July, 2015, St. Raphael Resort 5*, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cyprusconferences.org/ispdc2015/ Following very successful previous editions since 2002, the 14th ISPDC conference will be hosted in Limassol, a beautiful coastal Mediterranean city on the south coast of Cyprus. The conference will be devoted to a highly selective program with papers describing original and unpublished research advancing the state of the art in the field of Parallel and Distributed Computing paradigms and applications. The goal is to provide an interactive and friendly, yet professional forum, for original research contributions describing novel ideas, groundbreaking results and/or experiences. We kindly invite you to submit original contributions to ISPDC 2015 on topics including, but not limited to: System Architectures for Parallel and Distributed Computing - Multi-Cores, Virtualization - Clusters and Grid Computing - Methods and Tools for Parallel and Distributed Programming - Embedded, Mobile and Networking Environments - System Architecture and System Software for In-Memory Computing - Innovative System Architecture for Big Data Processing - System Architecture for Graph Computing/Processing - Interconnect Architecture for HPC and Data Centers High Performance Computing and Large Scale Applications - Tools and Environments for Parallel Program Design/Analysis - Scalable Algorithms and Applications - Urban Networks and Applications, Vehicular Networks - Parallel, Distributed and Mobile big-Data Management Parallel Computing and Algorithms - Parallel Programming Paradigms and APIs - GPU Programming - Bio-inspired Parallel Algorithms - Big Data and Graph Analytics - Algorithms, Models and Formal Verification Cloud Computing - Cloud Resource Provisioning and Allocation - Pricing of Cloud Resources - Cloud Performance, and Capacity Management - Green Cloud Computing - Mobile Clouds - Security and Privacy in Clouds - Cloud Computing Techniques for Big Data - Storage Architectures for Clouds and Big Data Processing Distributed and Embedded Computing - Collaborative Computing, P2P Computing - Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing - Web Services and Internet Computing - Distributed Software Components, Multi-agent Systems - Parallel Embedded Systems Programming - Highly Embedded Parallel Systems Support for Programming - FPGA and SoC Solutions Performance Modeling, Management and Optimization - Scheduling and Load Balancing - Performance Modeling, Analysis and Evaluation - Optimisation, Security and Dependability Interactivity - Real-time Distributed and Parallel Systems - Visualisation of Massively Parallel Data - IoT, Social Networks You are invited to submit original papers of up to 10 pages, written in English and compliant with the IEEE standard (8.5"x11", two-column). The IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings. A best paper award will be presented to paper(s) receiving the highest quality rating from the reviewers and the PC. Key Dates Submission of full papers: 15 January, 2015 Notification of authors: 15 March, 2015 Camera ready papers: 30 March, 2015 Authors and early registration deadline: 6 May, 2015 Symposium dates: 29 June - 2 July, 2015 General Chair George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Co-Chairs Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University, USA Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technische Universität München, Germany Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Bertil Folliot, University of Paris, France Dan Grigoras, University College Cork, Ireland John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland Traian Muntean, Aix Marseille University, France Dana Petcu, Western Univ. of Timisoara and e-Austria, Timisoara, Romania Marek Tudruj, Polish Acad. of Sciences and PJIIT, Warsaw, Poland Program Committee TBD -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email.