<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div> Call for Doctoral Symposium</div><div>========================================================================</div><div> CCGrid 2015</div><div> 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing</div><div> May 4-7, 2015</div><div> Shenzhen, China</div><div> <a href="http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/" target="_blank">http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/</a></div><div>========================================================================</div><div><br></div><div>The Doctoral Symposium of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster,</div><div>Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) provides a forum for students in all areas of</div><div>Cluster, Grid and Cloud research to obtain visibility, feedback and advice on</div><div>their Ph.D. dissertation topics and on their research careers. The Symposium</div><div>promotes fruitful interactions and networking between student researchers at a</div><div>similar stage in their careers. The program committee consists of experts in</div><div>the field and will provide their valuable feedback to the ongoing research work</div><div>of participating students. Selected students will present their work in front</div><div>of an audience of both their peer and researchers and will also be invited to</div><div>present their work as a poster in the poster exhibition of CCGrid. The</div><div>proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of CCGrid 2015</div><div>Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services</div><div>and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing.</div><div><br></div><div>SUBMISSION</div><div>======================</div><div>Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted</div><div>manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 4</div><div>letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the</div><div>IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these</div><div>guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should make sure that their</div><div>file will print on a printer that uses letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper. The</div><div>official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be</div><div>reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength,</div><div>significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the</div><div>conference attendees.</div><div><br></div><div>Paper submissions are limited to 4 pages in 2-column IEEE format including all</div><div>figures and references. Submitted manuscripts exceeding this limit will be</div><div>returned without review. For the final camera-ready version, authors with</div><div>accepted papers may purchase additional pages at the following rates: 100 USD</div><div>for each of the first two additional pages; 200 USD for each of the third and</div><div>fourth additional pages. See formatting templates for details:</div><div><br></div><div>LaTex Package ZIP,</div><div><a href="http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/files/IEEECS_confs_LaTeX.zip" target="_blank">http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/files/IEEECS_confs_LaTeX.zip</a></div><div>Word Template DOC and PDF,</div><div><a href="http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/files/instruct8.5x11x2.doc" target="_blank">http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/files/instruct8.5x11x2.doc</a></div><div><br></div><div>Doctoral symposium papers can be submitted at the following link (please choose</div><div>the “Doctoral Symposium” track)</div><div><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2015" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2015</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PUBLICATION</div><div>======================</div><div>The proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of CCGrid</div><div>2015 Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing</div><div>Services, will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing, and will be</div><div>distributed electronically at the conference.</div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div> Papers due: February 1, 2015</div><div> Author notification: March 1, 2015</div><div> Final camera-ready papers due: March 20, 2015</div><div><br></div><div>TOPICS OF INTEREST</div><div>======================</div><div>The symposium is open to all Ph.D. students carrying out research on topics</div><div>related to the theme of CCGrid conference. The topics of interest are the same</div><div>as in the Call for Conference Papers.</div><div><br></div><div>POSTER PRESENTATION TALK</div><div>======================</div><div>The authors of selected papers will be allotted 10 minutes to present their</div><div>work at the CCGrid Doctoral Symposium. The students will also present their</div><div>posters and talk one-on-one with the attendees in the poster exhibition</div><div>session. The recommended poster size is A1 (594mm by 841mm, portrait).</div><div><br></div><div>DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE</div><div>======================</div><div> Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (co-chairs)</div><div> Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China (co-chairs)</div><div> Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg</div><div> Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA</div><div> Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA</div><div> Yingfei Dong, Univ of Hawaii, USA</div><div> Xiaoliang Fan, Lanzhou University, China</div><div> Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA</div><div> Rong Ge, Marquette University, USA</div><div> Yuxiong He, Microsoft, USA</div><div> Kenli Li, Hunan University, China</div><div> Kai Ma, QualComm, USA</div><div> Sergio Nesmachnow, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay</div><div> Jia Rao, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA</div><div> Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University, Germany</div><div> Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico</div><div> Lei Tian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA</div><div> Weiqin Tong, Shanghai University, USA</div><div> Carlos A. Varela, Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute, USA</div><div> Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA</div><div> Kuang-Ching Wang, Clemson University, USA</div><div> Qishi Wu, University of Memphis, USA</div><div> Zhe Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA</div>
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