19th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2021)

AusPDC 2021 will be held online in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2021), 1 - 5 February 2021.

Scope of the Symposium

In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following a couple of successful events, it comes to the 19th in 2021 in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations.

Topics of interest for the symposium include (but not limited to):

  • Cloud computing

  • Fog/edge computing

  • Grid and Cluster computing

  • Big Data processing and analytics

  • Virtualization, containers, unikernels, orchestration and other enablers

  • Security, trust and privacy in Clouds/Fog/Edge

  • Mobile, sensor networks and Internet of things

  • Data storage, placement and replication

  • Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchains

  • Multi-core systems

  • Peer-to-peer computing

  • GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors

  • Service computing and workflow management

  • Managing large distributed data sets

  • Middleware and tools

  • Network function virtualisation and Software defined networks

  • Performance evaluation and modelling

  • Datacentre and Interconnection networks

  • Performance accelerators

  • Problem-solving environments

  • Parallel programming models, languages and compilers

  • Operating systems and runtime systems

  • Resource scheduling and load balancing

  • Data mining and machine learning

  • Computational Science and Engineering

  • Agent-based computing

  • Reliability, security, privacy and dependability

  • e-Science and e-Health Applications

The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organisations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers.


Important Dates:

Paper submissions due: Sunday 29 November-Extended
Author notification: 15 December 2020
Camera-ready full papers due: 20 December 2020
Conference dates: 1 - 5 February 2021

Paper Submission

The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM in conjunction with ACSW 2021. Papers should be formatted in double column according to ACM conference paper formatting guidelines ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. The following guidelines must be met for all submissions:

  • Submissions must be in English.

  • Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for full papers, 4 pages for short papers and 2 pages for posters.

  • Submissions must be in PDF format. Other formats will not be accepted.

  • Submissions must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work.

  • Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference.

  • Authors must choose the appropriate satellite conference or workshop for your submission

Papers are to be submitted via the ACSW 2021 Easy Chair Submission Site. Upon logging into the system, please select “New Submission”, then select "Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing" track and proceed through the steps for submission. Every submission will be reviewed by a minimum of three members of the program committee.

Paper Awards

A selection commission chaired by the AusPDC technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper and the best student paper to receive an award during the conference.

Committee

General Co-Chair

Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia

Program Committee Chairs

Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia

Irene Moser, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Steering Committee

Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia

Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden

Program Committee Members

Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Yun Yang , Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Xingliang Yuan. Monash University, Australia

Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia

Arash Shaghaghi, Deakin University, Australia

Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam, Monash University, Australia

Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia

Sukhpal Singh Gill, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Xiaoliang Fan School of Information Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, China

Minxian Xu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Jianzhong Qi, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Josh Milthorpe, Australian National University

Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia

Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia

Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand

Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia

Richard Sinnott, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Nitin Auluck, Computer Science Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India

Mohsen Amini, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Yogesh Sharma, Karlstad University, Sweden

Maria Rodriguez Read, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Marcos Assuncao Inria, LIP, ENS Lyon, France

Wei Li, The University of Sydney, Australia

Redowan Mahmud, RMIT University, Australia

Nour Moustafa, University of New South Wales at Canberra, Australia

Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia

Saurabh Garg, University of Tasmania, Australia

Raj Gaire, DATA61, Australia

Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia

Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide, Australia