Message from the Program Co-Chairs

It is our great pleasure to welcome all of you to the 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2012) and to Singapore. Established in 1992, ICPADS has been a major international conference in the fields of parallel and distributed systems. We thank you for participating and contributing to ICPADS 2012 and hope that you find this year´s program interesting and inspiring. We received a total of 294 paper submissions in eight research tracks, including Parallel/Distributed Algorithms and Applications; Multicore Computing and Parallel/Distributed Architectures; Cloud Computing and Services; Cyber- Physical Systems; P2P and Web-based Computing; Mobile, Sensor and Ubiquitous Computing; Security and Trustworthy Computing; and Massive Data and Storage Systems. The program committee worked very hard to thoroughly review all the submitted papers. The selection of papers to the conference was very competitive. We finally accepted 87 regular papers to be presented at the conference, leading to an acceptance rate of less than 30%.