7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL SYSTEMS
Debrecen, Hungary September 3-5, 2008
Call for papers
DAPSYS (International Conference on Distributed and Parallel Systems) is an international biannual conference series dedicated to all aspects of distributed and parallel computing.
DAPSYS 2008 is a major international event for presenting original research, novel concepts and methods,
and outstanding results. Contributions that investigate parallel and distributed techniques, algorithms, models and applications; present innovative software tools, environments and middleware; focus on various aspects of grid computing; introduce novel methods for development, deployment, testing and evaluation are invited.
DAPSYS 2008 will feature a special focus on desktop grid computing. Contributions that investigate desktop grids and volunteer computing systems,
large-scale computing applications, present recent advances of scalability, fault-tolerance and security in desktop grid systems are especially welcome.
Topics of interest of DAPSYS include but are not limited to the following:
* Featured topic: Desktop grid computing
* Cluster and Grid systems * Distributed and Grid middleware * Parallel and distributed programming languages and algorithms * Formal models for parallel and distributed computing *
Software engineering and development tools * Autonomous and self-* distributed systems * Problem solving environments * Grid architectures * Grid resource management * Grid workflow * Grid application support tools * Distributed information management * Distributed storage systems * Advanced cluster/grid applications
Selected papers of DAPSYS are traditionally published in a journal (best papers of DAPSYS 2006 are currently in print in FGCS).
IMPORTANT DATES (tentative)
* Paper submission: 15 March 2008 * Notification of acceptance: 17 April 2008 * Early registration deadline: 8 May 2008 * Camera-ready papers: 8 May 2008
PAPER SUBMISSION
Contributors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in English. The title page should contain a 100-word abstract and five specific keywords. DAPSYS 2006 accepts submissions only in electronic form via Authors' gateway on the conference web site. Papers must be formatted according to the instructions published on the workshop web pages.