Subject: [Roll] 2nd CFP: 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012)

From: Lei Tian <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:42:35 -0600

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IEEE NAS 2012 
Dates: June 28-30
Xiamen, Fujian, China

CALL FOR PAPERS

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The 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012)
http://www.nas-conference.org/
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OVERVIEW
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The 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012) will be held from June 28 − 30, 2012 at Xiamen, Fujian, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. NAS 2012 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas.

NAS has been successfully held in Dalian in 2011(NAS'11), Macau in 2010(NAS'10), Zhang Jia Jie in 2009 (NAS'09), Chongqing in 2008 (NAS'08), Guilin in 2007 (NAS'07), and Shenyang in 2006 (NAS'06).

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: February 24th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2012
Camera-ready Paper: May 5th, 2012
Conference: June 28-30, 2012

TOPICS
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Network security and privacy
* Virtual and overlay networks
* Network applications and services
* Ad hoc and sensor networks
* Networks and protocols
* Network architectures
* Processor architectures
* Cache and memory systems
* Parallel and multi-core systems
* Impact of (emerging) technologies on architectures
* Network information theory & network coding
* Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques
* Storage management
* Storage performance and scalability
* File systems, object-based storage, and block storage
* Energy-aware storage
* Architecture and applications of solid state disks
* Performance evaluation
* Network Storage
* Innovative HW/SW tradeoffs

We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to NAS 2012. All 
submissions will be peer reviewed by our scientific committee and
the accepted papers will be included in Ei. Also we would like to
announce that a number of experts and leading researchers in the
field of Networking, Architecture, and Storage will be delivering 
keynote lectures.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZORS
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Steering Committee
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Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Changsheng Xie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA
André Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

Honorable General Chairs
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Ying Zhang, Xiamen University, China

General Co-Chairs
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Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA
Lin Wang, Xiamen University, China

Program Co-Chairs
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Carlos Maltzahn, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA

Vice Program Chairs [Networking]
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Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

Vice Program Chairs [Architecture]
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Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China
Yiran Chen, University of Pittsburgh

Vice Program Chairs [Storage]
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Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA
John Bent, EMC, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs
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Lei Tian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Hanzi Wang, Xiamen University, China

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
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Cuihua Li, Xiamen University, China
Da Lu, Xiamen University, China

Publication Co-Chairs
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Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Registration and Finance Co-Chairs
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Yunqi Lei, Xiamen University, China
Suzhen Wu, Xiamen University, China

For more information regarding NAS 2012, please refer to the link below:

http://www.nas-conference.org/NAS-2012/index.html