<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,255)">[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">******************************* IEEE HPCC-2018 CFP *****************************<span style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The 20th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2018) </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc2018/">http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc2018/</a> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Exeter, England, UK, 28-30 June 2018 </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sponsored by</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC). </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt">INTRODUCTION<br>=============</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">The 2018 High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2018) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present state-of-art advances and innovations in theoretical foundations, systems, infrastructure, tools, testbeds, and applications for the HPCC, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to HPCC-2018. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be indexed by Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">SCOPE AND TOP</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">I</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">CS</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">================</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Track 1: High Performance Computing and Applications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Track 2: Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Track 3: Communications and Networking</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">IMPORTANT DATES<br>================</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Paper Submission Deadline:   10 February 2018</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Authors Notification:              15 April 2018</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Camera-Ready Paper Due:     15 May 2018</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Early Registration Due:          15 May 2018</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Conference Date:                    28-30 June 2018</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE<br>==========================</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website ( <a href="http://hpcc.ex.ac.uk/">http://hpcc.ex.ac.uk/</a> ) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:<br></span><a href="http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at:<br></span><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">====================== </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Distinguished papers selected from the conferences and associated workshops, after further extensions, will be recommended for submission and publication in the following prestigious journals or their Special Issues:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (IEEE Computer Society)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- Expert Systems Journal (Wiley)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- Cognitive Computation journal (Springer)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">- Big Data Analytics (BioMed Central/Springer)</span></p></div>