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                  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2006
 
                 TOPIC 3:   Scheduling and Load Balancing

                            EURO-PAR 2006 
                     August 29 - September 1, 2006 
           Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

                 Web site: http://www.europar2006.de/
                   Email: europar@zih.tu-dresden.de
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                      TOPIC 3 - DESCRIPTION


Scheduling and load balancing techniques are crucial issues for implementing 
efficient parallel and distributed applications. Such techniques can be 
provided either at the application level or at the system level, and both 
approaches are of interest for this workshop. At application level, subjects 
of special relevance concern both the mapping of parallel computations onto a 
parallel computer system as one of the most important issues in the design of 
efficient parallel algorithms and the development of dynamic load balancing 
algorithms that are able to adapt themselves to the particular characteristics 
of the underlying parallel and distributed systems, facilitating the 
development of portable applications. Support at the system level for 
scheduling and load balancing is also of high interest, for instance, in the 
context of Grids. Areas include experiences with checkpoint/migration 
facilities and workload estimation. Theoretical results which can be 
used as solid foundations for designing efficient and robust scheduling 
algorithms are particularly welcome together with scheduling and load-balancing 
algorithms for all kind of parallel and distributed systems, including clusters 
and Grids.

Focus
-	Theoretical foundations of scheduling algorithms
-	Adaptable load balancing algorithms
-	Different types of scheduling algorithms (on-line, multi-level, ...)
-	Robustness of scheduling algorithms
-	Scheduling for specific platforms (Grids, clusters)
-	Evaluation and analysis of load balancing and scheduling techniques
-	Workload models
-	Actual implementations of scheduling and load-balancing algorithms
-	Tools and environments for load balancing and scheduling


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                             KEY DATES

                  December 31, 2005: Workshop proposals due
                  January  31, 2006: Full papers due
                  May       3, 2006: Notification of acceptance
                  May      30, 2006: Camera-ready papers 
                                     and author registration due

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                         SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit full papers (10 pages, Springer LNCS
style) to this topic, by using the online submission site:

         http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=1

Online submission will be open before the end of December 2005.
(When submitting, please indicate this topic.)

All accepted full papers will be published in the conference
proceedings in the Springer Verlag LNCS series.

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                     TOPIC 3 - PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Global Chair
Prof. Dr. Michael A. Bender
State University of New York at Stony
Brook
Department of Computer Science
Stony Brook, NY, USA
bender@cs.sunysb.edu

Local Chair
Prof. Dr. Uwe Schwiegelshohn
University Dortmund
Robotics Research Institute
Dortmund, Germany
uwe@ds.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de

Vice Chair
Dr. Dror Feitelson
The Hebrew University
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Jerusalem, Israel
feit@cs.huij.ac.il

Vice Chair
Prof. Dr. Allan Gottlieb
New York University
Computer Science Department
New York, NY, USA
Gottlieb@nyu.edu

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                    MISSION STATEMENT - EURO-PAR

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to
the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing. Each year, the conference normally attracts
more than 300 participants coming from universities, research centres
and industry. Euro-Par 2006 will represent 18 topics
(http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=3) in the categories
of hardware, software, algorithms and applications, and will also
include tutorials, invited talks, and co-located workshops.
Besides, the planed Grid Village provides an opportunity to showcase
the latest developments in Grid technology with demonstration and hands
on experiences.

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