Message from the General Co-Chairs

We welcome you to the 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2012), held this year in the heart of South-East Asia, Singapore. This is the first time that ICPADS takes place in Singapore, a vibrant and cosmopolitan city that offers brimming culture diversity, multiplicity of arts and architecture; and unique experience of tropical nature, shopping and dining. With so many things to see and do, we are sure all of you will have a memorable stay during this conference. ICPADS 2012 takes place at the Nanyang Executive Centre, located on the Yunnan Garden campus of Nanyang Technological University. This year´s ICPADS received a large number of submissions, further strengthening its status as a leading conference in the areas of parallel and distributed systems. The three day conference consists of three keynote talks, a session of best paper candidates, a poster session, and parallel tracks of paper presentations from the main conference and five workshops. We are delighted that Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic (University of Ottawa, Canada), Dr. Sunil D. Sherlekar (Intel Labs, Bangalore, India), and Prof. Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) had accepted our invitation and will give keynote talks at the conference. We hope that you will enjoy this exciting program that we have arranged for you.