[hpc-announce] CFP: Final submission deadline of IEEE Workshop PCO 2016 in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2016 Chicago and Special Issue of AJOR

[Didier El Baz]

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Final Call for Papers: IEEE Workshop PCO 2016

Sixth IEEE Workshop on Parallel Computing and Optimization

http://pco2016.sciencesconf.org/

to be held in conjunction with Symposium IEEE IPDPS, Chicago USA, May 23, 2016

Final Submission Deadline: January 25, 2016.

A Special Issue of American Journal of Operations Research will be dedicated to selected papers of PCO


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Scope of the Workshop:

The workshop on 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.
In particular, we solicit submissions of original manuscripts on sparse 
matrix computations and relatives (including graph algorithms); and 
related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems.
Finally, the use of new approaches in parallel computing like GPU, MIC, 
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.
* Graph partitioning, preconditioning, Combinatorial Scientific Computing,
* Parallel algorithms for combinatorial optimization.
* Parallel metaheuristics.
* Distributed optimization algorithms.
* Hybrid computing and the solution of optimization problems.
* Peer-to-peer computing and optimization problems.
* GPU, MIC, Cloud computing.
* Applications: planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance,
telecommunications, computational biology,
combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing.

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: January 25, 2016
Notification of acceptance: mid February 2016
Camera ready papers due: February 28, 2016
Workshop: May 23, 2016

Submission details:
Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PCO 2016
submission system:
http://edas.info/N21516
Abstract and paper can be uploaded until January 25, 2016.
Authors shoud 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, tablesand references. Style templates are available at the
IPDPS 2016 web page:
http://www.ipdps.org/

A Special Issue of American Journal of Operations Research will be dedicated to selected papers of PCO
dealing with parallel Computing and Combinatorial Optimization:
http://edm.scirp.org/template/showTemplateInfo?showId=85776&personName=Mhand%20Hifi/

Chairs: Dr Didier El Baz,
LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse France
Dr. Bora Ucar
CNRS and ENS Lyon, France

Program Committee:
E. Alba, University of Malaga, Spain
J. Baker, Kent State University, USA
V. Boyer, University od Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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
M. Hifi, Université de Picardie, France
G. Jourjon, NICTA Sidney, Australia
K. Kaya, BMI, USA
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
A. Pothen, Purdue University, USA
T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France
E. Saule, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
E. Talbi, University of Lille, France
B. Ucar, ENS Lyon, France
L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Contacts:
pco2016-chairs at edas.info

Dr. Didier El Baz
LAAS-CNRS
Toulouse, France
elbaz at laas.fr
http://homepages.laas.fr/elbaz/

Dr. Bora Ucar
CNRS and ENS Lyon, France
bora.ucar at ens-lyon.fr