Call for Papers Workshop PCO'14

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Call for Papers Workshop PCO'14 

Parallel Computing and Optimization 

http://conf.laas.fr/PCO14/

to be held in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS, Phoenix, Arizona USA, May 23, 2013 

http://www.ipdps.org 

Paper Submission Deadline: January 20, 2014. 

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Scope:

The workshop on new trends in 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. Finally, the use of new approaches in parallel computing like GPU or hybrid computing, 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 
* Parallel algorithms for combinatorial optimization.
* Parallel metaheuristics. 
* Distributed optimization algorithms. 
* Graph partitioning, preconditioning, Combinatorial Scientific Computing, 
* Hybrid computing and the solution of optimization problems. 
* Peer to peer computing and optimization problems.
*Applications: planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline:	January 20, 2014
Notification of acceptance:	February 28, 2014
Camera ready due:	March 14, 2014
Workshop:	May 23, 2014


Submission:
Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PCO 2014 submission system, i.e. EDAS conference management service: http://edas.info/N15815

Abstracts and papers can be uploaded on January 20, 2014. 

Authors should 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, tables and references. 
Style templates are available at the IPDPS 2014 web page. 

Committees:
General Chair: Dr Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France 
Publicity Chairs: 
Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
Prof. Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA 

Program Committee:

E. Alba, University of Malaga, Spain 
J. Baker, Kent State University, USA 
V. Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico 
P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China 
U. Catalyurek, Ohio State University, USA
Ph. Codognet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie France, JFLI Japan	
S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan 
F. Galea, CEA, France 
A. Gomez-Iglesias, National Fusion Laboratory, Spain 
M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
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
T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France 
E. Talbi, University of Lille, France
B. Ucar, ENS Lyon, France 
L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada