<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">***************************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> The 9th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2019) </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> <a href="https://pdco2019.sciencesconf.org/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">https://pdco2019.sciencesconf.org/</span></a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> held in conjunction with </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> the 33rd IEEE International </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2019) </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> May 20-24, 2019 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> Rio de Janeiro, Brazil </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> <a href="http://www.ipdps.org/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">http://www.ipdps.org</span></a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">***************************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">============================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">FIXED DEADLINE (no more extensions): February 17, 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit to an Special Issue in</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS - IF: </span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">4.639</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">============================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Scope: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">====== </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed combinatorics for difficult optimization problems, ranging from theoretical to applied problems. The latter include for instance 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock problems, large scale linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global optimization and scheduling problems. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for solving difficult optimization problems, like cooperative methods for integer programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. We also solicit submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related topics (including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems. Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed combinatorics and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence, complexity, etc.) are welcome.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational biology. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Topics: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">======= </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">* Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods; </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">* Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization; </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">* Parallel / distributed metaheuristics; </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">* Nature inspired parallel / distributed computing; </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">* Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming; </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">* Global optimization, polynomial optimization; </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">* Cooperative methods, hybrid methods; </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">* Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing; </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">* Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Steering Committee: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">=================== </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair) </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair) </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">General Chairs: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">=============== </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Program Chairs: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">=============== </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Publicity Chairs: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">================= </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Program Committee (to be completed): </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">==================================== </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">J. J. Durillo, Leibniz Supercomputer Center, Munich, Germany</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">K. Li, State University of New York, USA</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">N. Melab, University of Lille, France</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">M. Seredynski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">S. Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Submission : </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">============ </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO 2019 submission system (EasyChair): <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdco2019" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdco2019</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Abstract and paper can be uploaded until February 17, 2019. Authors should preferably follow the manuscript specifications of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. 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. Style templates are available on <a href="http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2019/2019-call-for-papers.html" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">IPDPS website</span></a>. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Special Issue:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">============</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Authors from PDCO 2019 will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of Future Generation Computer Systems, with Impact Factor: </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">4.639</span>. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Important Dates: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">================ </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">- Submission Deadline: February 17, 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">- Author notification: March 8, 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">- Camera ready version: TBD</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">- Workshop: May 20, 2019 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Contact: </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">======== </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference organizers at <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:pdco2019@sciencesconf.org" class="">pdco2019@sciencesconf.org</a></span></span></div></div></div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>