CALL FOR PAPERS
         
           The Ninth International Conference on       
              Parallel and Distributed Systems
                       (ICPADS 2002)     
               
           National Central University, Taiwan, ROC     
                     Dec. 17-20, 2002                                                                                                        

                       Sponsored by 
  National Science Council and Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC

                      Co-sponsored by
  Technical Committee on Parallel Processing and Technical 
  Committee on Distributed Processing, IEEE Computer Society

INTRODUCTION
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 The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed 
 Systems (ICPADS2002) will provide an international forum for 
 scientists, engineers, and computer users to exchange and share 
 their experiences, new ideas, and research results on all aspects 
 of parallel and distributed systems. The main program will include 
 keynote speech, technical sessions, and tutorials. All accepted 
 papers will appear in the Proceedings of ICPADS2002, which is 
 published by the IEEE computer Society. Awards will be given to the 
 best papers. Selected papers will be invited to be published in 
 International Journals.


SCOPE
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Topic include, but are not limited to:
 *Parallel/Distributed Architectures
 *Parallel/Distributed Algorithms
 *Parallel/Distributed Applications
 *Distributed Operating Systems
 *Self-Stabilization Algorithms
 *Fault-Tolerant Systems
 *Real-Time Computing and Communications
 *Cluster Computing
 *Performance Modeling and Evaluation
 *Multimedia Systems and Communications
 *High-Speed Networking and Protocols
 *Internet Computing
 *Web-Based Applications
 *Wireless and Mobile Computing


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission:         May 15, 2002
Acceptance:                  July 25, 2002
Final version:               Aug. 25, 2002


Paper Submission
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 Prospective authors are invited to submit research contributions 
 representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted 
 papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, 
 technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All submitted 
 papers MUST not exceed 20 double-spaced, 8.5 x 11-inch pages 
 including figures and references in 12-point font. Each page must 
 be numbered. Submissions should be in pdf or postscript formats.

  Papers can be submitted in two ways:
    1. Visit http://icpads2002.csie.ncu.edu.tw to upload files (preferred)
    2. Send files to the email account: icpads2002@csie.ncu.edu.tw


Contact
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  Prof. Jang-Ping Sheu
  ICPADS2002 Program Chair
  Dept. of Computer Sci. and Info. Eng. 
  National Central University, Chung-Li 320, Taiwan.
  E-mail : sheujp@csie.ncu.edu.tw
  
Organizing Committee
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  Honorary Chair
   Chao-Han Liu (President, National Central University, Taiwan)
  General Chair
   Shing-Tsaan Huang (National Central University, Taiwan)
  Program Chair 
   Jang-Ping Sheu (National Central University, Taiwan)
  Steering Committee Chair
   Wen-Tsuen Chen (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
  
  Vice Program Chairs: 
    Parallel Systems
      Stephan Olariu  (Old Dominion Univ., USA)
      Biing-Feng Wang (National Tsing-Hua Univ., Taiwan)
    Distributed Systems
      Shlomi Dolev (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Israel)
      Katsuya Tanaka ( Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan)
    Multimedia Systems
      Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia Univ., USA)
      Ja-Ling Wu (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
    Communication Networks and Protocols
      Ruay-Shiung Chang (National Dong-Hwa Univ., Taiwan)
      Sang Hyuk Son, (Univ. of Virginia, USA)
    Internet Computing
      Sajal Das (Univ. of Texas at Alington, USA)
      Myong-Soon Park (Korea Univ., Korea)
    Wireless and Mobile Computing
      Ivan Stojmenovic (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada)
      Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan)
  
  Tutorials Chair: 
    Nian-Feng Tzeng (Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
  
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