AusPDC 2024 will be held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2024), 29 January - 1 February 2024. 

Scope of the Symposium

The Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC) stands as a premier gathering for distributed systems researchers in the Australasian region, covering a diverse array of topics within parallel and distributed computing. 

In 2024, we are proud to unveil a revitalized event, featuring an expansive program that includes keynotes from prominent Australian researchers, technical paper presentations, engaging workshops and tutorials, Panel Discussions, and industry presentations. 

The 22nd instalment of this symposium will convene in 2024 at UNSW in Sydney, Australia. It will be held as an integral part of the Australian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2024), the foremost occasion for Computer Science researchers in the Australasian region. 

The symposium primarily targets researchers from Australia and New Zealand. However, in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to foster collaboration among distributed virtual organizations, we actively encourage international researchers to submit papers and participate. 

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

• Cloud/Fog/Edge computing

• Serverless computing and FaaS

• Microservice application management and orchestration

• Cluster management (e.g., container management systems, GPU cluster management)

• High-performance computing

• Artificial intelligence applied to distributed and parallel systems 

• Mobile, sensor networks 

• Internet of Things

• Distributed stream processing

• Big Data processing and analytics

• Virtualization, containers, unikernels, orchestration and other enablers

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

• Large-scale data management (e.g., storage, placement, replication)

• Network function virtualisation and software-defined networks

• Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchains

• Service computing and workflow management

• Performance evaluation and modelling

• Datacentre and Interconnection networks

• Performance accelerators

• Parallel programming models, languages and compilers

• Operating systems and runtime systems

• e-Science and e-Health Applications

Important Dates: 

Paper submissions due: 25 November 2023  10 December 2023
Author notification: 12 December 2023 25 December 2023
Camera-ready full papers due: 13 January 2024
Conference dates: 29 January - 1 February 2024

All dates refer to 23:59, anywhere on earth (AoE) on that day. 

Paper Submission

The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM in conjunction with ACSW 2024. Papers should be formatted in double columns 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 2024 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

Chairs

Maria Rodriguez Read, University of Melbourne, Australia

Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia

Steering Committee

Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia

Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia

Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia

Program Committee Members

Mohan Chhetri, CSIRO’s Data61, Australia

Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia

Muhammed Islam, University of Melbourne, Australia

Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia

Sukhpal Gill, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Jianzhong Qi, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand

Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia

Richard Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Australia

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

Mohsen Amini, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Yogesh Sharma, Thompson Rivers University, Canada

Marcos Assuncao, École de technologie supérieure (ETS) of Montreal, Canada

Redowan Mahmud, Curtin University, Australia

Young Lee, Macquarie University, Australia

Shashikant Ilager, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

Marco Netto, Microsoft, Azure HPC, USA

Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden

Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, UK

Mohammad Goudarzi, University of Melbroune, Australia

Tianzhang He, Monash University, Australia

Wenhong Tian, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Claudio Cicconetti, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy

Pablo Serrano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Yun Yang, Swinburne University, Australia