[hpc-announce] CFP - Special Issue on Parallel Soft Computing Techniques in HPCS - The Computer Journal (I. F. 0.755)

[Bernabe Dorronsoro]

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Special Issue on
Parallel Soft Computing Techniques in High Performance Computing Systems 
of the The Computer Journal (2012 Impact Factor 0.755)

http://www.bernabe.dorronsoro.es/imagenes/cfp/CJ-SI-CFP.pdf
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Nowadays, there is a need to solve more and more complex optimization problems in industry, science, engineering, and many other domains. Soft computing techniques are highly appropriate methods to deal with such complex problems (that cannot be tackled with exact methods) with reasonable computational effort. Additionally, due to the growing complexity and computational demands of such problems and the widespread availability of powerful parallel architectures (GPUs, multicore CPUs, clusters, grids, and clouds), parallel soft computing algorithms arise as highly appropriate tools to handle these problems. 

This special issue focusses on novel advances in parallel soft computing algorithms and their application to the resolution of complex real-world problems to find accurate solutions in reasonable time. We look for high quality publications proposing parallel soft computing techniques designed for multi-core processors, GPUs, and other large High Performance Computing systems as clusters, grid or cloud computing to solve complex real-world problems. Additionally, works proposing novel soft computing/metaheuristic/parallel algorithms applied to solve complex problems in the context of clusters, grid or cloud computing are of interest too. 


With this special issue, we aim at collecting a number of diverse, outstanding papers with important theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of soft computing, including novel efficient parallel models, new soft computing techniques, and their applications to complex and original real world problems. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:


• Parallel soft computing techniques for cluster/grid/cloud computing

• Parallel soft computing techniques on GPGPUs and clusters of GPGPUs

• Parallel soft computing techniques for complex real-world problems

• Soft computing based solutions for cluster/grid/cloud computing related problems

• Performance measures for parallel soft computing techniques

• Reliable parallel soft computing algorithms for uncertain distributed environments

• Massively parallel soft computing algorithms

• Peer to peer soft computing techniques

• Volunteer and ubiquitous soft computing


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Notes for Prospective Authors
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Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. They should be submitted via The Computer Journal's online submission system,  manuscript  Central, at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/compj. They should be accompanied by a cover letter that clearly states that the submission is for the Special Issue on “Parallel Soft Computing Techniques in High Performance Computing Systems”.

All submitted papers will be peer reviewed according to the usual standards of this journal, and will be evaluated on the basis of originality, quality and relevance to this Special Issue and the journal, and on the basis of clarity and correct use of English. The submitted papers should be formatted according to the journal style. For more detailed information concerning the requirements for submission, please refer to the journal homepage at: www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/computer_journal/for_authors/msprep_submission.html

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Important Dates
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Paper submission: February 28, 2014
1st round review notification: June 15, 2014
1st revision due: July 15, 2014
2nd round review notification: Sept. 30, 2014
2nd revision due: Oct. 31, 2014
Final acceptance: Nov. 30, 2014
Publication (tentative): 3rd or 4th quarter, 2015

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Guest Editors
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Prof. Sergio Nesmachnow
Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Website: www.fing.edu.uy/~sergion/
Email: sergion at fing.edu.uy

Bernabé Dorronsoro
University of Lille 1, France
Website: www.bernabe.dorronsoro.es
Email: bernabe.dorronsoro_diaz at inria.fr
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