[hpc-announce] Last CCGrid 2015 Call for Doctoral Symposium -- TRAVEL AWARDS AVAILABLE

[Junchao Zhang]

                         Call for Doctoral Symposium
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                                 CCGrid 2015
    15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid
Computing
                                May 4-7, 2015
                               Shenzhen, China
                      http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/
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The Doctoral Symposium of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster,
Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) provides a forum for students in all
areas of
Cluster, Grid and Cloud research to obtain visibility, feedback and advice
on
their Ph.D. dissertation topics and on their research careers. The Symposium
promotes fruitful interactions and networking between student researchers
at a
similar stage in their careers. The program committee consists of experts in
the field and will provide their valuable feedback to the ongoing research
work
of participating students. Selected students will present their work in
front
of an audience of both their peer and researchers and will also be invited
to
present their work as a poster in the poster exhibition of CCGrid. The
proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of CCGrid
2015
Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services
and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing.

SUBMISSION
======================
Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted
manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 4
letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using
the
IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these
guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should make sure that
their
file will print on a printer that uses letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper. The
official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be
reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength,
significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the
conference attendees.

Paper submissions are limited to 4 pages in 2-column IEEE format including
all
figures and references. Submitted manuscripts exceeding this limit will be
returned without review. For the final camera-ready version, authors with
accepted papers may purchase additional pages at the following rates: 100
USD
for each of the first two additional pages; 200 USD for each of the third
and
fourth additional pages. See formatting templates for details:

LaTex Package ZIP,
http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/files/IEEECS_confs_LaTeX.zip
Word Template DOC and PDF,
http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/files/instruct8.5x11x2.doc

Doctoral symposium papers can be submitted at the following link (please
choose
the “Doctoral Symposium” track)
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2015


PUBLICATION
======================
The proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of
CCGrid
2015 Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing
Services, will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing, and will be
distributed electronically at the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
======================
    Papers due: Extended to Feb. 10, 2015, AOE (was Feb. 1)
    Author notification: March 1, 2015
    Final camera-ready papers due: March 20, 2015

*TRAVEL AWARDS*
======================
*A number of student travel awards, pending on US NSF final approval, will
be*
*available for attendees of doctoral symposium.*

TOPICS OF INTEREST
======================
The symposium is open to all Ph.D. students carrying out research on topics
related to the theme of CCGrid conference. The topics of interest are the
same
as in the Call for Conference Papers.

POSTER PRESENTATION TALK
======================
The authors of selected papers will be allotted 10 minutes to present their
work at the CCGrid Doctoral Symposium. The students will also present their
posters and talk one-on-one with the attendees in the poster exhibition
session. The recommended poster size is A1 (594mm by 841mm, portrait).

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
======================
    Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (co-chairs)
    Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China (co-chairs)
    Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA
    Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA
    Yingfei Dong, Univ of Hawaii, USA
    Xiaoliang Fan, Lanzhou University, China
    Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA
    Rong Ge, Marquette University, USA
    Yuxiong He, Microsoft, USA
    Kenli Li, Hunan University, China
    Kai Ma, QualComm, USA
    Sergio Nesmachnow, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
    Jia Rao, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
    Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University, Germany
    Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico
    Lei Tian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
    Weiqin Tong, Shanghai University, China
    Carlos A. Varela, Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute, USA
    Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA
    Kuang-Ching Wang, Clemson University, USA
    Qishi Wu, University of Memphis, USA
    Zhe Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
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