From: AG Hartenstein-UNI KL-FRG <abakus@informatik.uni-kl.de>
Subject: APPT99, Call for Paper
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:50:58 +0200 (MET DST)

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
The Third International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing
Technologies
                               APPT`99
 
             October 19-20, 1999  Changsha, P. R. China
                   www.njtu.edu.cn/APPT`99
 
The great mutual acceptance of the first and second International
Workshop APPT`95 and APPT`97 in Beijing and Koblenz encourages us to
continue the fruitful scientific dialogue among China, Germany and other
countries. Based on the established cooperation during the past
meetings, the third meeting should increase the strengthen of
cooperation, and to provide a forum for exchanging new ideas at the
higher technical level. This should be realized by the respective
selected topics of the Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing
Technologies, which will be held in Changsha, Oct. 19-20, 1999.
 
This workshop results from cooperations between Northern Jiaotong
University and the University of Koblenz-Landau as well as National
Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, University of
Hamburg, the University of Applied Sciences of Heide and the City
University of Hong Kong. And this workshop has been planning to take
place biannually alternately in China and Germany. It will act as a
forum for technology exchange for the university and industrial side to
present up-to-date research results and project works in order to
establish new cooperation in developing innovative concepts and
solutions for products towards future markets and setting up long-term
cooperation. The workshop will focus on both theory/methodology and
practice/application realizations. The working language is English.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
     * Parallel & distributed architectures
     * Parallel & distributed algorithms
     * Parallel programming & parallelizing compilers
     * Applications of parallel and distributed computing
     * Meta-computing, and Internet applications
     * Network security
     * Heterogeneous computing environments
     * Reliability and fault-tolerance for parallel & distributed
systems
     * Wireless networks and mobile computing
     * Artificial intelligence techniques for parallel processing
     * Neural networks and their applications
     * Computer-supported cooperative work
     * Distributed operating system
     * Hardware/software co-design
     * Novel VLSI architectures
     * Optical technology in high-performance architectures
 
Submission Procedures:
 
Submissions (3 copies) must be written in English and should not exceed
5000 words in length, including figures, tables and references. Accepted
papers will be published in the proceeding which will be available on
the workshop. Submissions should be sent to Dr. XU, Dr. HAN, Prof.
Moeller or Prof. Siemers. Email submissions are acceptable.
 
Dr. Ming XU, 
National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing
Changsha, 410073, China
Tel: +86-731-4505605,  +86-731-4505697
Fax: +86-731-4551126
Email: xmzhou@nudt.edu.cn
 
or      Dr. Zhen HAN, 
Department of Computer Science & Technology
Northern Jiaotong University
Beijing, 100044, China
Tel: +86-10-63240556,  +86-10-63240516
Fax:+86-10-62245826
Email: zhan@center.njtu.edu.cn
 
or      Dr. Dietmar P.F. Moeller, Prof.
Institut fuer Informatik
University of Hamburg
Germany
Tel: +49-5323-953-115
Fax: +49-5323-953-139
Email: dietmar.moeller@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
 
or      Dr. Christian Siemers, Prof.
Fachhochschule Westkueste
Rungholtstrasse 9
25746 Heide, Germany
Tel: +49-481-8555-832
Fax: +49-481-8555-820
Email: siemers@fh-westkueste.de
 
Organizers
- National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing
- Northern Jiaotong University (NJTU)
- Architecture Professional Committee of China Computer Federation  
(APC-CCF)
- University of Hamburg
- University of Applied Sciences Heide
- German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD)
 
 In Cooperation with:
- Institute No.706, Ministry of Aerospace of China
- Special Interest Group for Parallel Algorithms, Computing
Architectures   and System Software (PARS) of GI/ITG (GI = German
Association of   Computer Science, ITG = German Association of
Information Technology)
- Special Interest Group for Workstation Computing System (APS) of
GI/ITG
 
 Program Committee:
 General Chairman:
    Xingming ZHOU       National Laboratory for Parallel and
Distributed                         Processing (Member of Chinese
Academy of                         Sciences, China)
 
 Co-Chairmen:
    S. Jaenichen        GMD-FIRST (Germany)
    D.P.F. Moeller      University of Hamburg (Germany)
    Xicheng LU          National Laboratory for Parallel and
Distributed                         Processing (China)
    Xiu ZHANG           Institute of Computer Technology, Academia
Sinica                         (China)
    Houkuan HUANG       Northern Jiaotong University (China)
 
 Members:
 Binxing FANG   Harbin Institute of Technology (China)
 Zhen HAN       Northern Jiaotong University (China)
 Shiyao JIN     National Laboratory for Parallel and
Distributed                 Processing (China)
 Lishan KANG    Wuhan University (China)
 Xiaoming LI    Peking University (China)
 Xingda LU      Shanghai JiaoTong University (China)
 Siwei LUO      Northern Jiaotong University (China)
 Baisheng ZHENG Institute No.706, Ministry of Aerospace (China)
 Weiming ZHENG  Tsinghua University (China)
 Chuanqi ZHU    Fu Dan University (China) 
 Guangrong GAO  Delaware University (USA)
 M. Brodie      GTE Laboratory (USA)
 Qing Yang      Rhode Island University (USA)
 Chengzheng SUN Griffith University (Australia)
 Kang ZHANG     Macquarie University (Australia) 
 Y. K. Chan     City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
 
 A. Bode        TU Munich (Germany)
 D. Cin         Universitaet Erlangen (Germany)
 K.-E. Grosspietsch     GMD St. Augustin (Germany)
 R. Hartenstein Universitaet Kaiserslautern (Germany)
 J. Kaiser      Universitaet Ulm (Germany)
 K. Lautenbach  Universitaet Koblenz-Landau (Germany)
 E. Maehle      Med. Universitaet Luebeck (Germany)
 F. Mayer-Lindenberg    TU Hamburg-Harburg (Germany)
 E. Nett        GMD St. Augustin (Germany)
 K. D. Reinartz Universitaet Erlangen (Germany)
 C. Siemers     FH Westkueste (Germany)
 C. Steigner    Universitaet Koblenz-Landau (Germany)
 D. Tavangarian Universitaet Rostock (Germany)
 W. von Wendorff        Siemens AG (Germany)
 
 Important Dates:
- Deadline of Submission:       June 15th, 1999
- Notification of Acceptance    July 15th, 1999
- Receipt of Camera Ready Submission    Sept. 1st, 1999
 
 
 A brief Introduction to Changsha
 
    Changsha City is situated in the Central-South China, and on the
lower reaches of the Xiangjiang River. It is the capital of Hunan
province, among the first 24 noted cultural and historical cities of
China promulgated by the State Council.
 
   The city was built in the Western Chou Dynasty dating back more than
3,000 years. It served as a prefecture seat in the old times, and then
became a provincial seat in the 3rd year of Kangxi of Qing Dynasty
(1664).  Changsha offers visitors the best of natural beauty and
historical interest. The famous sites include Han Tombs in Mawangdui,
Yuelu Academy, Tianxin Pavilion, Kaifu Temple and so on. Yuelu Moutain,
is regarded as a major place for sightseeing. Besides enjoying a lot of
natural and archaic attractions, a tourist can take a bird view over the
city.
 
   It is always sunshiny in October and temperature is around 20 degree
Centigrade. The transportation in Changsha is very convenient. The
Beijing-Guangzhou Railway runs through the city. Huanghua International
Airport lies 24 kilometers from the downtown area. Every day, there are
dozens of flight schedules from Changsha to the major cities of China.
The four rivers join each other here, so the inland water transportation
is flourishing as well. 
 
   Moreover, Changsha is famous for Xiang Xiu (embroidery), fireworks,
TongGuan pottery and porcelain. Xiang cuisine is also well known in the
Country.