Parallel Computing

INTETAIN 2008 aims to stimulate interaction among academic researchers and commercial developers of interactive entertainment systems. In addition to paper presentations, posters, and demos, the conference will foster discussions through workshops and special events. INTETAIN 2008 focuses on the development of novel user-centered intelligent computational technologies and interactive applications for entertainment, being made possible through the use of a wide range of interactive device technologies (e.g., mobile and wearable devices, home entertainment centers, haptic devices, wall screen displays, information kiosks, holographic displays, fog screens, distributed smart sensors, and immersive displays) and media delivery infrastructures (e.g., multimedia networks, interactive radio, streaming technologies, DVB-T/M, ITV, P2P, satellite broadcasting, UMTS, Bluetooth, Broadband, and VoIP). We seek exciting and innovative work in areas including, but not limited to: Intelligent Computational Technologies for Entertainment * Adaptive Media Presentations * Recommendation Systems in Media * Scalable Crossmedia * Affective User Interfaces * Novel Interaction Technologies * Intelligent Speech and Multimedia Interfaces * Telepresence in Entertainment * Collaborative User Models and Group Behavior * Collaborative and Virtual Environments * Cross-Domain User Models * Animation and Virtual Characters * Novel Displays and Devices * Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality * Computer Graphics and Multimedia * Pervasive Multimedia and Gaming * Creative Language Environments * Computational Humor Interactive Applications for Entertainment * Intelligent Interactive Games * Intelligent Music Systems * Interactive Cinema * Edutainment * Interactive Art * Museum Guides * City Guides and Tourism Assistants * Shopping Assistants * Interactive Social Networks * Interactive Story Telling * Personal Diaries, Websites, and Blogs * Applications for Special Populations (Handicapped, Children, Elderly) Information for Authors Paper Submission INTETAIN 2008 accepts three types of paper submissions: Full Papers (from 6-10 pages) Late Breaking Results (up to 4 pages) Demos (up to 4 pages) All submissions must follow the ACM two-column conference style format including figures and references. Links to templates will be available from the conference website. Authors are requested to submit their PDF manuscripts electronically by following the instructions at the conference home page: http://www.intetain.org. Supporting videos can also be submitted. All paper submissions must be anonymous. We have adopted a relaxed model of anonymity that does not attempt to conceal all traces of identity from the body of the paper. Authors are expected to remove author and institutional identities from the title and header areas of the paper, as noted in the submission instructions. Further suppression of identity in the body of the paper is left to the authors' discretion. In particular, we expect authors to leave the citations to their previous work unanonymized, so that reviewers can ensure that all previous research has been taken into account. Authors are requested to submit their PDF manuscripts electronically, using the COCUS System ( http://www.cocus.info ) : 1. Login to COCUS with your e-mail address and password. You will need to create an account if you do not have one. 2. After login, choose "Event List" and find INTETAIN 2008 in the list. 3. Choose "Submit a paper" and follow the step-by-step instructions. Workshop Proposals Proposals are solicited for Workshops as part of the events associated with INTETAIN 2008. In addition to the interest areas listed above, workshops may address other topics in entertainment technology and applications. Please see the Call for Workshop Proposals for more information. Publication Submissions should describe original research that has not been previously published or accepted for publication, and is not under consideration for publication at another conference or journal. Accepted full papers will be published in the proceedings and presented during the paper sessions. Accepted late-breaking results papers and demo descriptions will be printed in a companion document available only at the conference, and presented during a poster session (late-breaking results) and demo session (demos).

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