The 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT)

1.Networking and Architectures: 

• Interconnection networks               

• Parallel/distributed architectures         

• Heterogeneous and multimedia Systems 

• ATM networks 

• Reliability, and fault-tolerance          

• Ubiquitous computing systems  

• Computer networks 

• Communication and telecommunication 

• Wireless networks and mobile computing  

• Optical networks  

• Cloud/Grid computing systems  

• Reconfigurable architecture 

2.Software Systems and Technologies: 

• Formal methods and programming languages 

• Internet computing

• Image processing and computer vision

• Agent technologies

• Operating systems 

• Software tools and environments

• Parallelizing compilers 

• Web services

• Component-based and OO Technology   

• Simulation and Visualization

3. Algorithms and Applications: 

• Parallel/distributed algorithms  

• Task mapping and job scheduling  

• Distributed data and knowledge based systems  

• Image processing and computer graphics  

• High-performance scientific computing 

• Reconfigurable high-performance computing

• Resource allocation and management  

• Network routing and communication algorithms  Bioinformatics 

• Database applications and data mining  

• Intelligent computing and neural networks

4.Security and Privacy:

• Access control and authorization  

• Authentication, biometrics, smartcards 

• Distributed systems security  

• Mobile code and mobile agent security   

• RFID applications  

• Privacy preserving computation 

• Applied cryptography  

• Database security  

• Intrusion detection and survivability 

• P2P & ad hoc networks

• Cloud security

• Security protocols