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The Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (IF: 1.32)<br class="">
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Special Issue on Parallel/Distributed Computing and Optimization<br class="">
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In the last years, we have experienced a change in computing towards parallelism. The physical limits of integrated circuits being reached, computing performance now keep Moore’s law thanks to the replication of components. The default computer is nowadays
 a parallel machine. In this scenario, parallelism is a must in any modern software in order to make an effective use of the available resources.<br class="">
The purpose of this special issue is to collect the main recent trends and designs in parallel and distributed computing for solving hard optimization problems. <br class="">
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Topics of interests include:<br class="">
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming;<br class="">
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Global optimization, combinatorial optimization, multi-objective optimization, dynamic optimization;<br class="">
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, nature inspired algorithms, machine learning;<br class="">
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cooperative methods;<br class="">
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hybrid methods;<br class="">
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Multi-core, many-core, GPGPU, cluster, Grid, and Cloud computing platforms;<br class="">
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing;<br class="">
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Peer to peer computing and optimization problems;<br class="">
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Theoretical studies on parallel and distributed computing<br class="">
•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Real world applications<br class="">
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;" class=""><font face="Tahoma" size="2" class="">All high quality submitted papers related to the listed topics will be considered for publication in this special issue, provided they are recommended
 for publication after the review process. All manuscripts submission and review will be handled by Elsevier Editorial System
<a href="http://ees.elsevier.com/jpdc" class="">http://ees.elsevier.com/jpdc</a>. Please, make sure to choose PDCO2017 as article type. All papers should be prepared according to JPDC Guide for Authors. Manuscripts should be no longer than 35 double-spaced
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IMPORTANT DATES<br class="">
- First Submission Date: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>
June 15th, 2017<br class="">
- Full Paper Regular Submission Due: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>September 15th, 2017<br class="">
- Notification of Results:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>December 15th, 2017<br class="">
- Revisions Due:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>January 31st, 2018<br class="">
- Notifications of Final Acceptance:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>April 30th, 2018<br class="">
- Submissions of Final Revised Papers:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>May 31st, 2018<br class="">
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GUEST EDITORS<br class="">
- Bernabe Dorronsoro, University of Cadiz, Spain<br class="">
  <a href="mailto:bernabe.dorronsoro@uca.es" class="">bernabe.dorronsoro@uca.es</a><br class="">
- Gregoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg<br class="">
  gregoire.danoy@uni.lu<br class="">
- Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France<br class="">
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