PCO'12 : Parallel Computing and Optimization

[Victorio Sonzogni]

Desde: 21-05-2012
Hasta:  25-05-2012
Lugar: Shanghai, China

               Call for Papers
               Workshop PCO'12

Parallel Computing and Optimization

http://conf.laas.fr/PCO12/index.html <http://conf.laas.fr/PCO12/index.html>

to be held in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS, Shanghai, China, May 21-25, 2012

http://www.ipdps.org <http://www.ipdps.org/>

Paper Submission Deadline: December 23, 2011

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Scope of the Workshop:

The workshop on new trends in Parallel Computing and Optimization aims 
at providing a forum for scientific researchers
and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed 
computing for difficult combinatorial optimization
problems, like 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock 
problems, large scale linear programming
problems, nonlinear optimization problems and global optimization 
problems. Emphasis will be placed on new techniques
for the solution of these difficult problems like cooperative methods 
for integer programming problems and polynomial
optimization methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific 
Computing (CSC) will also be treated. Finally, the
use of new approaches in parallel computing like GPU or hybrid 
computing, peer to peer computing and cloud computing
will be considered. Application to planning, logistics, manufacturing, 
finance, telecommunications and computational biology
will be considered.



Topics:

* Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming.
* Global optimization, polynomial optimization.
* Exact methods, heuristics
* Parallel algorithms for combinatorial optimization.
* Parallel metaheuristics.
* Distributed optimization algorithms.
* Graph partitioning, preconditioning, Combinatorial Scientific Computing,
* hybrid computing and the solution of optimization problems.
* Peer to peer computing and optimization problems.
* Applications: planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, 
telecommunications,
computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high performance 
computing.


Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: December 23, 2011
Notification of acceptance: February 6, 2012
Camera ready papers due: February 20, 2012
Workshop: May 25, 2012


Submission Details:

Prospective authors should submit their papers through workshop PCO'12 
submission system,
i.e. EDAS conference management service: http://edas.info/N11517

Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column 
pages using
10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including
figures, tables, and references. See the style templates for details.

  * 
Latex:http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip 
<http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>
  * Word:http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip 
<http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip>

Papers and abstracts can be uploaded on December 23, 2011.

Chair: Dr Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France

Program Committee:

E. Alba, University of Malaga, Spain
J. Baker, Kent State University, USA
V. Boyer, Cirrelt, Canada
P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China
U. Catalyurek, Ohio State University, USA
S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan
F. Galea, CEA, France
A. Gomez-Iglesias, National Fusion Laboratory, Spain
M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
G. Jourjon, NICTA Sidney, Australia
M. Lalami, LAAS-CNRS, France
B. Le Cun, University of Paris 10, France
C. Leon, University of  La Laguna, Spain
K. Li, State University of New York, USA
N. Melab, University of Lille, France
C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France
E. Talbi, University of Lille, France
B. Ucar, ENS Lyon, France
L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Contact: elbaz at laas.fr <mailto:elbaz at laas.fr>
LAAS-CNRS
Toulouse, France