AusPDC 2025: Call for Papers

The 23rd Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2025) will be held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2025) at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, from February 10 to February 14, 2025.

Symposium Scope

AusPDC is a premier gathering for distributed systems researchers in the Australasian region, covering a diverse array of topics within parallel and distributed computing. The symposium features keynotes from prominent researchers, invited technical paper presentations, Demonstrations, tutorials, Panel Discussions, and industry presentations.

While primarily targeting researchers from Australia and New Zealand, international researchers are actively encouraged to submit papers and participate.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Cloud/Fog/Edge computing
• Serverless computing and FaaS
• Quantum Computing
• Microservice application management and orchestration
• Cluster management (e.g., container management systems, GPU cluster management)
• High-performance computing
• Artificial intelligence applied to distributed and parallel systems
• Mobile, sensor networks
• Internet of Things
• Distributed stream processing
• Big Data processing and analytics
• Virtualization, containers, unikernels, orchestration, and other enablers
• Security, trust, and privacy in Clouds/Fog/Edge
• Large-scale data management (e.g., storage, placement, replication)
• Network function virtualisation and software-defined networks
• Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchains
• Service computing and workflow management
• Performance evaluation and modelling
• Datacentre and Interconnection networks
• Performance accelerators
• Parallel programming models, languages, and compilers
• Operating systems and runtime systems
• e-Science and e-Health Applications

Important Dates

• Paper/Tutorial/Demo proposal submissions due: December 1, 2024
• Notification: December 25, 2024
• Camera-ready full papers due: January 15, 2025
• Conference dates: February 10 - February 14, 2025

All dates refer to 23:59, Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Submissions

The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM in conjunction with ACSW 2025.

Guidelines:

• Papers must be formatted in double columns according to ACM conference paper formatting guidelines (ACM SIG Proceedings Templates).
• Submissions must be in English.
• Submissions must not exceed 8 pages for full papers, and 2 pages for demo and tutorial proposals.
• Submissions must be in PDF format.
• Submissions must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work.
• Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel.
• Authors must choose the appropriate track in the ACSW conference for their submission (AusPDC Track).
• For demo and tutorial proposals, please ensure that you highlight this in the title of your paper (e.g., [Tutorial Proposal]: Title or [Demo Proposal]: Title).

Submission Portal:

Papers are to be submitted via the ACSW 2025 Easy Chair Submission Site.

Upon logging into the system, please select "New Submission", then select "Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing" track and proceed through the steps for submission.

Demonstrations and Tutorials

Submissions for one-hour tutorials or demos are invited.

• Title: Indicate if it's a tutorial or demo (e.g., [Tutorial Proposal]: Title).
• Abstract: Brief overview (200 words max).
• Objectives: Key takeaways for attendees.
• Technical Requirements: Any needed equipment.
• Page limits: 2 pages

Committee

Chairs:

• Mohammad Goudarzi, Monash University, Australia
• Adel N. Toosi, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Steering Committee:

• Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia
• Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia
• Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia