WICT 2012: October 30- November 02, Trivandrum, India -> http://www.mirlabs.net/wict12
Parallel Data Processing --- PDP 2012
Special session title: PDP 2012, Parallel Data Processing
Rationale of the need and objective of the session:
Processing large datasets generated by research and industry represents one of the most important challenges in data mining. The growing volumes of data represent an opportunity for the application of data processing and data mining methods. Although advanced data analysis is the main goal of data mining, even general processing of large volumes of high-dimensional data be extremely time consuming and in conclusion unusable for practical applications.
Parallel processing has been clearly identified as one of the most effective methods for fast solution of complex data-intensive problems. The emergence of inexpensive parallel computers such as commodity desktop multiprocessors, clusters of workstations or PCs, grids, and GPUs has made such parallel methods generally applicable.
Data-intensive applications such as information retrieval, data mining, and data analysis have established a new challenge for the modern generation of parallel platforms. Emerging areas such as computational biology and nanotechnology have implications for algorithms and systems development, while fast changes in architectures and programming models and applications have implications for how parallel platforms can be used to solve practical problems.
The special session seeks contributions about foundations of parallel data processing as well as case studies, empirical, and other methodological works related to models, tools, and environments for concurrent analysis of data. It will provide an opportunity to disseminate latest results in this growing field.
The main topics cover the design and use of various models, algorithms, tools, libraries, and environments for the design and implementation of parallel approaches to data-intensive applications.
Specific topics of interest
Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:
Session Chair/Cochairs
Short bio of the chair/cochairs
Vaclav Snášel is Professor of Computer Science. He works as researcher and university teacher. He is Dean Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Vaclav Snášel's research and development experience includes over 30 years in the Industry and Academia. He works in a multi-disciplinary environment involving artificial intelligence, social network, conceptual lattice, information retrieval, semantic web, knowledge management, data compression, machine intelligence, neural network, web intelligence, nature and Bio-inspired computing, data mining, and applied to various real world problems. He has given more than 15 plenary lectures and conference tutorials in these areas. He has authored/co-authored several refereed journal/conference papers, books and book chapters. He has published more than 400 papers (191 papers are recorded at Web of Science, 256 papers are recorded at Scopus) and 1317 citations in Google Scholar Citations.
Vaclav Snášel has served as a PC member to many international conferences, and she has been general chair and organizer of the INCoS 2009 -- IEEE, Barcelona, Spain, General Chair, NWeSP 2009 -- IEEE, Prague, Czech Republic, General Chair, AWIC 2009 -- Springer, Prague, Czech Republic, General Chair, NDT 2009 -- IEEE, Ostrava, Czech Republic, General Chair, CASoN 2009 -- IEEE, Fontainebleau, France, International
Pavel Krömer has received the M.Sc. in computer science from the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava in 2006 and PhD in Applied Mathematics from the same institute in 2010. Pavel’s areas of interest include computational intelligence, information retrieval, World Wide Web, data mining, and parallel programming. He coauthored more than 100 papers published in conference proceedings and journals. He also presented award winning papers at international computer science conferences in 2007, 2008, and 2011. Before joining the academia full time, he worked for more than 5 years as an analyst and developer in a major European software house. Pavel has served in Program Committees of a number of conferences including IEEE CEC 2012, IEEE SMC 2012, SEAL 2012, WICT 2011, ISDA 2011, ISDA 2010, SEAL 2010, CICN 2010 and others.
Petr Gajdoš has received the Ph.D. in computer science from VSB- Technical University of Ostrava in 2006 and currently, he works in a position of Assistant Professor at the same institute. Petr’s areas of interest include information retrieval, data mining, parallel computing, GPU programming and computer graphics. Beside publication activity (about 50 papers published in conference proceedings and journals), he focused on software development in academic and business area.
Contacts:
Pavel Krömer, pavel.kromer@vsb.cz
Eliška Ochodková, eliska.ochodkova@vsb.cz
Program committee (tentative)
Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Milos Kudelka, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Pavel Kromer, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Jan Platos, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Pavel Moravec, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Petr Gajdos, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Jan Martinovic, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Dusan Husek, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Science, Czech Republic
Ivan Zelinka, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Petr Musilek, University of Alberta, Canada
Suhail S. Owais, AL-Balaqa University, Jordan
Eyas El-Quwashme, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Hideyasu Sasaki, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Juan D. Velasquez, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Milos Besta, Google, New York
Nashwa Mamdouh El-Bendary, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Egypt
Dr. Muhanned Al Farras, College of Computer Engineering & Sciences, Gulf University, Bahrain
Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt