A Message from the Conference Chair

The 13th International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2012) is being held in Kyoto, Japan. The conference is sponsored by the International Association for Computer and Information Science (ACIS), in cooperation with Kyoto Institute of Technology, and International Institute of Applied Informatics (IIAI). This conference brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to exchange their research ideas and results and to discuss the state of the art in the areas of the conference. In this conference, we have keynote addresses by Dr. Morshed Chowdhury and Dr. Noriyoshi Sano.