Call for Papers

The Sixteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA '04) is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) and organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. This year the Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada 4 (Applied Mathematics Department 4) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Technical University of Catalonia) is providing special local support.

SPAA '04 will feature contributed papers, each with a 25-minute talk, and SPAA Revue papers, each with a 10-minute talk. The SPAA Revue is for brief communications including work in progress or demos.

Scope

Contributed papers are sought in ALL areas of parallel algorithms and architectures, and of related fields. SPAA defines "parallel" broadly, encompassing any computational system that can perform multiple operations or tasks simultaneously. Thus, this call for papers covers both traditional parallel and distributed algorithms and architectures, as well as the Internet, the web, sensor networks, quantum and DNA computing, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Parallel Computing	Massive Parallelism
Parallel Algorithms	Cluster Computing and Grid Computing
Parallel Complexity Theory	Mobile and Wireless Computing
Parallel Computing and Applications	The Internet and the World Wide Web
Models for Parallel and Distributed Computing	Sensor Networks
Instruction Level Parallelism and VLSI	Satellite and Radio Networks
Routing and Information Dissemination	Other Large Networks
Parallel Data Structures	Pricing and Equilibria in Networks
Compilers and Tools for Parallel Computing	Quantum and DNA Computing
Memory-Aware Algorithms	Parallel Data Bases and Data Mining
Supercomputer Architecture and Computing	Metacomputing

Conference Presentation

Regular presentations will be alloted a 25-minute talk and up to 10 pages in the proceedings. This format is intended for contributions reporting original research, submitted exclusively to this conference. Presentation at the SPAA Revue will be alloted a 10-minute talk and up to 2 pages in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief communications, which may be published later in other conferences.

Submissions

Authors of contributed papers are encouraged to submit their manuscript electronically by email. To submit electronically, visit http://sigact.cs.unlv.edu/~spaa2004/SPAA2004.html for instructions. This is the preferred method of submission. The deadline for electronic submissions is February 6, 2004, 5 p.m. EST. The submissions server can be turned off anytime after this point.

Authors who are unable to submit electronically should contact the program chair, Micah Adler, at micah@cs.umass.edu to receive instructions. Do not send electronic submissions to this email address.

Paper Submission Format

The cover page should include

1. title,
2. authors and affiliation,
3. postal and e-mail address of the contact author,
4. a brief abstract describing the content of the paper, and
5. an indication of whether this is a regular presentation or a SPAA Revue presentation

If requested by the authors, an extended abstract that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for the SPAA Revue. Such a request will not affect the consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.

Submissions regular presentations should include an introduction understandable to a nonspecialist including motivation and previous work, and a technical exposition directed to a specialist. It should not exceed 10 printed pages in 11-point type or larger (excluding cover, figures, and references). More details may be supplied in a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the program committee. A camera-ready copy of each accepted paper must prepared according to ACM guidelines for inclusion in the proceedings of the conference.

A submission for the SPAA Revue should consist of a 2-page abstract for each proposed presentation. A camera-ready copy of each accepted abstract must prepared according to ACM guidelines for inclusion in the proceedings of the conference.

Notification

Authors will be sent notification of acceptance or rejection by e-mail or letter mailed on or before March 15, 2004. A camera-ready copy of each accepted paper, prepared according to ACM guidelines, must be received by April 6, 2004.