Hi!

There will be a 

           TECHNICAL SESSION: LOAD BALANCING AND SCHEDULING

at the 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'98), Las Vegas, July 13-16, 1998.

TOPICS OF INTERESTS:

--  Scheduling and Mapping of Parallel Applications,
    especially in Clusters of Workstations

--  Experiences with Load Balancing Systems

--  Load Balancing & Middleware (CORBA, DCE, Java, ...)

--  Metacomputing, Scalability of Strategies

--  ...

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

      Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their
      draft paper (about 5 pages) to B. Schnor (address is given
      below) by the due date.  E-mail and Fax submissions are also
      acceptable (Postscript, viewable with Ghostview).
      The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted)
      will be limited to 8 pages.  Papers must not have been
      previously published or currently submitted for publication
      elsewhere.

      The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the
      paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address,
      telephone number, and Fax number for each author.  The first
      page should also include the name of the author who will be
      presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.

EVALUATION PROCESS:

      Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
      and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in
      the topical area.  The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by
      one person.

PUBLICATION:

      The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press
      (ISBN).  It will be a multivolume set.  The proceedings will
      be available at the conference.  It is planned to select about
      40 papers for journal publication in related journals (after the
      conference).  All accepted papers will also be considered for
      journal publication.

IMPORTANT DATES:

      February 27, 1998 (Friday):     Draft papers (5-page) due
         April  3, 1998 (Friday):     Notification of acceptance
           May 22, 1998 (Friday):     Camera-Ready papers & Preregistration due

              July 13 - 16, 1998:     PDPTA'98 Conference

      All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference.

For further details related to PDPTA'98 see http://www.jhpc.org/pdpta98 

Any help in publicizing this session would be most appreciated.

Best regards
Bettina Schnor

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Dr. Bettina Schnor                                 Tel.  +49 451 500/3719
Institute for Telematics, Med. Uni Luebeck         Fax.             /3722
Ratzeburger Allee 160                    E-mail: schnor@itm.mu-luebeck.de
D-23538 Luebeck, Germany             http://www.itm.mu-luebeck.de/~schnor

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