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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Apologies if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers of Conference --- <b>The 32nd IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communication Conference (IPCCC 2013)</b></font></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><b>IEEE IPCCC 2013 </b></font></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><b>The 32nd IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communication Conference (IPCCC) </b></font></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">December 6 -- December 8, 2013 </font></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">San Diego, California, USA </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">The International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference is a premier IEEE conference presenting research in the performance of computer and communication systems. For more than 30 years, IPCCC has been a research forum for academic, industrial, and government researchers. We encourage submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in both theoretical and experimental research areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Big Data Processing and Analytics </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Cache, Memory, and Disk Storage Systems </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Data Centers and Cloud Computing </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Embedded Systems </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Fundamental Theory and Algorithms </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Internet Services and Network Management </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Mobile Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Multi- and Single-Core Processor Architecture </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Network Data Mining </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Network Information Assurance and Security </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Network Protocols </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Online Social Network Analysis </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Parallel and Distributed Systems </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Performance Evaluation and Modeling </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Performance Tools and Techniques </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Ubiquitous Computing </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Wireless Communication and Networks </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Workload Characterization and its Impact on Architecture Design </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#2A2A28" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#2A2A28;"><b>Submission Process </b></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><b>Full Papers </b>: Submissions must be made by the deadline of Friday, September 6, 2013 23:59 (Anytime zone in the world), through the easychair website at </font><a href="FCMSGWIN_004C4CF6_0A31E623onferences/?conf=ipccc2013" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;"><u>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipccc2013 </u></font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">, with one week before to register the paper abstract . Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference or workshop. Simultaneous submission of the same work is not allowed. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Submissions must be at most 10 pages in double-column IEEE format ( </font><a href="FCMSGWIN_004C4CF6_0A31E623rtal/web/cscps/formatting" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;"><u>http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting </u></font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">) including bibliography and well-marked appendices. Only PDF files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#454444" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#454444;">A </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">ll papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. They will be judged with respect to their quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, conditional upon the author's advance registration and attendance at the conference. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><b>POSTERS: </b>We welcome submissions of poster applications in the form of a two-page extended abstract in PDF format. A subset of full paper submissions will also be invited to the IEEE IPCCC Poster Session. Accepted extended abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><b>WORKSHOPS AND PANELS </b>: Proposals for panel sessions and workshops are welcome. Please contact the Workshop Chair for details. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">A special issue of the Journal of Communications ( </font><a href="FCMSGWIN_004C4CF6_0A31E623r.com/jcm/%29" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;"><u>http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/) </u></font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">will be organized after this conference. Authors of outstanding papers from the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the special issue. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><b>IMPORTANT DATES </b>: </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><a href="FCMSGWIN_004C4CF6_0A31E6232013/main.php?page=4" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;"><u>http://www.ipccc.org/ipccc2013/main.php?page=4#</u></font></a><a href="FCMSGWIN_004C4CF6_0A31E6232013/main.php?page=4" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;"><u>http://www.ipccc.org/ipccc2013/main.php?page=4#</u></font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"> </font></div>
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<td width="45%" valign="top" style="border-style:none none solid none;border-width:0px 0px 1px 0px;border-color:#000000;border-collapse:collapse;"><div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">August 1, 2013 </font></div><br/></td>
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<td width="45%" valign="top" style="border-style:none none solid none;border-width:0px 0px 1px 0px;border-color:#000000;border-collapse:collapse;"><div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">August 30, 2013 </font></div><br/></td>
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<td width="45%" valign="top" style="border-style:none none solid none;border-width:0px 0px 1px 0px;border-color:#000000;border-collapse:collapse;"><div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">September 6, 2013 </font></div><br/></td>
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<td width="45%" valign="top" style="border-style:none none solid none;border-width:0px 0px 1px 0px;border-color:#000000;border-collapse:collapse;"><div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">October 15, 2013 </font></div><br/></td>
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<td width="45%" valign="top" style="border-style:none none none none;border-width:0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#000000;border-collapse:collapse;"><div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">October 22, 2013 </font></div><br/></td>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Yu Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Zhiqiang Lin, University of Texas at Dallas, USA </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><b>Poster Chair: </b></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Peixiang Liu, Nova Southeastern University, USA </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Xiaojun Ruan, West Chester University, USA</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Mea Wang, University of Calgary, Canada </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Fan Li, Beijing Institute of Technology, China </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Nasr Ullah, Samsung, USA </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Jack Chen, Cisco, USA </font></div>
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