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Call For Papers

SACSIS 2010
Date: May 27(Thr) - 28(Fri), 2010,
Venue: Nara Prefectural New Public Hall, Nara, Japan

About SACSIS:

SACSIS, the Annual Symposium on Advanced Computing Systems and Infrastructures, is a symposium for discussing advanced computing systems, infrastructures, and technologies for enabling them from wide and various viewpoints. It covers both technologies on "systems" and technologies on "infrastructures." The 8th symposium will be held in Hiroshima from May 27th through May 28th, 2010.

Important Dates

Jan 19 (Tue), 2010 17:00 JST (UTC +9hr)	Full papers registration due (firm deadline)
Jan 26 (Tue), 2010 17:00 (UTC +9hr)	Full papers upload due (firm deadline)
Mar 16 (Tue) - 19 (Fri), 2010	Notification of acceptance to authors of full papers
Mar 30 (Tue), 2010 17:00 (UTC +9hr)	Poster abstracts upload due (firm deadline)
Apr 6 (Tue), 2010	Notification of acceptance to authors of poster papers
May 27 (Thr) - 28 (Fri), 2010	SACSIS 2010

Areas of interest:

We solicit full papers and poster papers (abstracts) for the SACSIS 2010 on a wide range of topics related to:

• Advanced Computing Systems
  Grid computing, cloud computing, cluster computing, peer-to-peer computing, overlay networks, high-performance computing, HPC-oriented compiler, mobile computing, ubiquitous systems, embedded systems, dependable computing, application-specific systems, and so on.
• Infrastructural Technologies
  processor architecture, reconfigurable systems, system architecture, network on chip, communication mechanism, communication library, high-speed networks, I/O systems, storage systems, resource management, virtualization technology, energy-saving technology, AAA technology, space-saving technology, operating systems, middleware, compilers, programming languages, parallel algorithms, multi-core optimization, GPGPU, online algorithms, performance evaluation/tuning technology, numerical simulation, peta-FLOPS computing application, and so on.
• Practical Infrastructures
  database, Web service, search engine, data mining, transaction systems, distributed computing environment, server system development technology, network security, E-Science, and so on.

Paper Types:

1. Full Papers
   • Full-length papers. All papers will be refereed by the program committee. Papers must be unpublished in refereed journals or refereed conferences. Papers can be submitted simultaneously to the ACS Journal.
   • Page limit: No longer than 8 pages (2 extra pages can be purchased for camera-ready).
   • Format: should be uploaded as a single PDF file.
   • Language: English or Japanese.
2. Poster Papers (abstracts)
   • Work-in-progress papers.
   • Page limit: No longer than 2 pages.
   • Format: should be uploaded as a single PDF file.
   • Language: English or Japanese.

Awards:

• Best Young Researcher Award: up to three papers are selected out of papers the first author of which is younger than about thirty.
• Best Paper Award: one paper is selected out of all full papers.
• Most Interesting Poster Award (Poster Presentation): one poster presentation is selected. Works with high originality are highly evaluated.

Style Files:

• LaTeX http://www.hpcc.jp/sacsis/2010/latexform.html
• MS-Word http://www.hpcc.jp/sacsis/2010/sacsis-form.doc

Submission:

• Papers will be able to be submitted via:
  http://www.hpcc.jp/acs/31/submit/