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The algorithms and methods of Peer-to-Peer (p2p) technology are often applied to networks and services with a high demand for scalability. The huge number of peers, the state space, as well as the interactions and relationships between peers and states often makes an analytical description intractable. Discrete event simulation is a tool which is able to incorporate all interactions and parameters and may reflect reality as accurately as possible. Large scale simulations, however, also require sufficient memory capacities and often exceed the available computational power. It might already be a problem just to keep the states of the peers in the main memory. The 2nd International Workshop on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Peer-to-peer environments (MSOP2P) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to advance the state of the art in modeling, simulating and optimizing P2P environments. The workshop also offers the opportunity to discuss different techniques to make p2p simulations scalable, to debate the advantages and disadvantages of a simulation on packet level or on application level, and to compare analytical models as well as emulations to results gained by simulation. The general venue will be a good occasion to share, to learn, and to discuss the latest results in this field of research

Parallel and Distributed Processing has undergone impressive change over recent years. New architectures and applications have rapidly become the central focus of the discipline. These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of parallel and distributed technologies with other rapidly evolving technologies such as telecommunications and multimedia. It is of paramount importance to review and assess these new developments in comparison with recent research achievements in the well-established areas of parallel and distributed computing, from industry and the scientific community. The Sixteenth Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing aims at providing a forum for the presentation of these and other issues through original research presentations and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and new ideas at the highest technical level. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: · Network-based Computing: web computing, cluster computing, mobile agents, distributed web services, security in distributed systems. · Parallel Computer Systems: massively parallel machines, high performance networks, network-on-chip systems, embedded parallel and distributed systems, fault-tolerance, memory organization, parallel I/O. · Models and Tools for Parallel Programming Environments: performance prediction and analysis, simulation, knowledge-based parallel program development, visualization tools. · Advanced Applications: computations over irregular domains, combinatorial optimization, multi models and multi disciplinary applications, numerical applications with multi-level parallelism, real time distributed applications, distributed business applications. · Languages, Compilers and Runtime Support Systems: task and data parallel languages, functional and logic languages, object-oriented languages, dependability issues, scheduling and load balancing, task and object migration, emerging languages, compilers for multicore architecture and for emerging architecture, virtualization for HPC, measurement and monitoring. · Global computing: grid computing, P2P computing, desktop grids, computational grids, data grids, semantic grids, grids middleware, data consistency in P2P. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Prospective authors can submit a paper via the conference site either to the Conference Main Track or to the following workshops devoted specifically to hot topics. Security in Distributed Systems Chairman : I. Kotenko (St Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, RU) Delay Tolerant Networks Chairman : S. Chaumette (LABRI, FR) Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Peer-to-Peer Environments. Chairman: A. Binzenhoefer and P. Tran-Gia (University of Wurzburg, DE) Next Generation of Web Computing Chairman: K. Kloeckner (Fraunhofer Institute, DE) Work in Progress Chairman: K. E. Grosspietsch, K. Kloeckner (Fraunhofer Institute, DE) Authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 5000 words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract before July 15, 2007. To facilitate an anonymous reviewing process, the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract and names of authors must not appear in the Reference section. Notification of acceptance: October 1st, 2007 Camera-ready submissions: October 31st, 2007 Details on submission of papers will be soon available at http://www.pdp2008.org Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS. Best papers will be selected for a special issue of Journal of Systems Architecture. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present the paper at the Conference. A special session devoted to work in progress will be also organized. Selected papers will not be published in the Conference Proceedings but will appear in a separate document. Details will be avalaible soon on the Conferece site. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Program chairs and local organisation ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Chairs: Julien Bourgeois, Francois Spies, LIFC, University of Franche-Comté, Montbéliard, France, Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France. Local Organization Chair: Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France. Local Organization: Brigitte Ducrocq (LAAS-CNRS), Jean-Michel Enjalbert (LAAS-CNRS/UPS) Jean-Michel Pons (LAAS-CNRS). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee ----------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Arbenz (CH), E. Ayguade (ES), H. Bal (NL), R. Baraglia (IT), J. Bishop (ZA), J. Bourgeois (FR), P. Bouvry (LU), E. Caron (FR), A. Clematis (IT), A. Corana (IT), Y. Cotronis (GR), J. Cunha (PT), M. Dayde (FR), P. D'Ambra (IT), M. Danelutto (IT), G. Danese (IT), G. Deconinck (BE), I. De Falco (IT), V. De Florio (BE), B. Di Martino (IT), D. Di Serafino (IT), R. Doallo (ES), P. Domingues (PT), J. Dongarra (US), D. El Baz (FR), M. Elkihel (FR), T. Fahringer (AT), G. Fedak (FR), M. Guarracino (IT), M. Guest (GB), T. Gross (DE), J. Gustedt (FR), L. Hluchy (SK), P. Kacsuck (HU), K. Kloeckner (DE), I. Kotenko (RU), D. Kranzlmuller (AT), H. Krawzyck (PL), F. Leporati (IT), A. Lingas (SE) E. Luque (ES), E. Maehle (DE), A. Malony (US), P. Manzoni (ES), S. Margenov (BG), P. Milligan (GB), J. Morrison (IE), M. Paprzycki (PL), N. Podhorszki (HU), J. Roman (FR), A. Schiper (CH), M. Schulz (US), H. Sips (NL), G. Spezzano (IT), F. Spies (FR), R. Steinmetz (DE), V. Sunderam (US), M. Swany (US), M. Taufer (US), G. Terstyanszky (GB), F. Tirado (ES), R. Trobec (SI), M. Tudruj (PL), M. Vanneschi (IT), S. Venticinque (IT), F. Vivien (FR), J. Wasniewski (DK), S. Winter (GB), R. Wismuller (DE), T. Yang (CA), F. Zambonelli (IT), E. Zapata (ES), A. Zomaya (AU). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information: access the PDP2008 homepage at http://www.pdp2008.org send E-mail to info-pdp@pdp2008.org Euromicro Office: P.O. Box 2043, D-53743 Sankt Augustin, D, office@euromicro.org