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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> The 6th IEEE International Workshop on</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> High-Performance Big Data and Cloud Computing (HPBDC)</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> In conjunction with the 34th IEEE</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2020)</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Managing and processing large volumes of data, or Big Data, and gaining</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">meaningful insights is a significant challenge facing the parallel and distributed</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">computing community. This has significant impact in a wide range of domains</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">including health care, bio-medical research, Internet search, finance and business</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">informatics, and scientific computing. As data-gathering technologies and data</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">sources witness an explosion in the amount of input data, it is expected that in the</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">future massive quantities of data in the order of hundreds or thousands of</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">petabytes will need to be processed. Thus, it is critical that data-intensive</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">computing middleware (such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink, etc.) to process such data</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">are diligently designed, with high performance and scalability, in order to meet the</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">growing demands of such Big Data applications.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">The explosive growth of Big Data has caused many industrial firms to adopt High</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Performance Computing (HPC) technologies to meet the requirements of huge</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">amount of data to be processed and stored. The convergence of HPC, Big Data,</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">and Deep Learning is becoming the next game-changing business opportunity.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Apache Hadoop, Spark, gRPC/TensorFlow, and Memcached are becoming</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">standard building blocks in handling Big Data oriented processing and mining.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Modern HPC bare-metal systems and Cloud Computing platforms have been</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">fueled with the advances in multi-/many-core architectures, RDMA-enabled</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">networking, NVRAMs, and NVMe-SSDs during the last decade. However, Big</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Data and Deep Learning middleware (such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink, and gRPC)</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">have not embraced such technologies fully. These disparities are taking HPC,</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Big Data, and Deep Learning into divergent trajectories.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">International Workshop on High-Performance Big Data, Deep Learning, and</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Cloud Computing (HPBDC), aims to bring HPC, Big Data processing, Deep</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Learning, and Cloud Computing into a convergent trajectory. The workshop</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">provides a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">their latest research findings in major and emerging topics for 'HPC + Big Data +</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Deep Learning over HPC Clusters and Clouds'.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">HPBDC 2020 will be held in conjunction with the 34th IEEE International Parallel</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2020).</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">HPBDC 2020 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * High-Performance Big Data analytics, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> frameworks, programming models, and tools</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * Performance optimizations for Big Data, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> systems and applications with HPC technologies</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * High-Performance in-memory computing technologies and abstractions</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * Performance modeling and evaluation for emerging Big Data processing, Deep</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> Learning, and Cloud Computing technologies</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * Big Data processing and Deep Learning on HPC, Cloud, and Grid computing</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> infrastructures</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability for high-performance Big Data</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> computing, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * Green Big Data computing, Deep Learning, and HPC Clouds</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * Scheduling and provisioning data analytics on HPC and Cloud infrastructures</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * Scientific computing with Big Data and Deep Learning on HPC Clusters and/or</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> Clouds</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * Case studies of Big Data and Deep Learning applications on HPC systems and</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> Clouds</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * High-Performance streaming data processing architectures and technologies</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * High-Performance graph processing with Big Data</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> * High-Performance SQL and NoSQL data management technologies</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Papers should present original research. As the fields of Big Data, Deep Learning,</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">and Cloud Computing span many disciplines, papers should provide sufficient</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">background material to make them accessible to the broader community. One</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">outstanding paper will be selected for the Best Paper Award.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">All submissions should follow the IEEE standard 8.5x11 two-column format. The</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">workshop will accept traditional research papers (8-10 pages) for in-depth topics</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">and short papers (4 pages) for works in progress on hot topics.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">- Long papers: 8-10 pages, with a full problem description, background and</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> related work, design, and evaluation.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">- Short papers: 4 pages, for works in progress on hot topics.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">All the papers should be submitted through</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<a href="https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=HPBDCWorkshopFullSubmission&site=ipdps2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=HPBDCWorkshopFullSubmission&site=ipdps2020</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers should not</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">The proceedings of this workshop will be published together with the proceedings</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">of other IPDPS 2020 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society Press.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the conference and are submitted</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. At least one of</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant of the workshop</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">and present the paper at the workshop, in order to have the paper published in the</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">proceedings.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">- Abstract submission deadline (optional): January 16th, 2020 (Anywhere on Earth)</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">- Paper submission deadline (extended): February 8th, 2020 (Anywhere on Earth)</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">- Acceptance notification: March 1st, 2020</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">- Camera-ready deadline: March 15th, 2020</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">- Workshop: May 18th, 2020</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Jianfeng Zhan, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> Sciences, China</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Haiyang Shi, The Ohio State University</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Confirmed So far)</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Yong Chen, Texas Tech University</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Jong Youl Choi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Hyun-Wook Jin, Konkuk University, Korea</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Jithin Jose, Microsoft</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Zengxiang Li, Institute Of High Performance Computing, Singapore</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Mingzhe Li, Facebook</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Suzanne McIntosh, New York University</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Md. Wasi-ur Rahman, Intel</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Juan Touriņo, University of A Coruņa, Spain</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Yunquan Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"> Sciences, China</span></div>
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