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=====> CALL FOR PAPERS <===== Submission Deadline: October 4, 2002 -- 17th Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium IPDPS 2003 -- Tuesday, 22 April - Saturday, 26 April, 2003 Nice Acropolis Convention Center -- Nice, France -- www.ipdps.org/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing In cooperation with: ACM SIGARCH IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) (Hosted by INRIA Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & University of Nice ) ================================= IPDPS 2003 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================= In 2003, IPDPS will follow its accustomed format, providing a forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in the fields of parallel processing and distributed computing. Workshops and tutorials serve as the "book-end" events on the first and last days. Note that in Nice the beginning day will be Tuesday the 22nd and the final day of IPDPS will be Saturday the 26th. The three intervening days open with addresses by invited speakers and focus on the presentation of contributed papers in technical sessions organized around symposium topics of interest. Particularly hot topics are further explored via panel discussions, as well as other ad hoc meetings and discussions throughout the week. Details on local accommodations as well as travel tips will be posted on the Web before the end of the year, so you are encouraged to regularly check the IPDPS Web site at www.ipdps.org for updates. General email inquiries should be addressed to . GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Michel Cosnard, Universite' de Nice & INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Allan Gottlieb, New York University & NEC Research Institute, GENERAL VICE CO-CHAIRS Luc Bouge', ENS Cachan & IRISA, Rennes, France Charles Weems, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, WORKSHOPS --------- Workshops are an opportunity to explore special topics, and running a workshop in association with IPDPS offers many advantages. The 18 workshops held at IPDPS 2002 are already planning for continuation in 2003 and several more have been proposed. Contact General Vice Co-Chair Charles Weems for details on workshop proposals. To obtain more information on an individual IPDPS workshop, go to the IPDPS Web site at www.ipdps.org. Each workshop has its own requirements and schedule for submissions and all are linked from the IPDPS Web site. For more information visit www.ipdps.org.