Message from the ScalCom-2010 Program Chairs
2010
Welcome to the 16 th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2016).Parallel and distributed computing systems have undergone impressive change over recent years.The whole hardware industry shifted to both multicore and mobile platforms expanding the arena of communicating devices to an unprecedented scale.Scalability is becoming one of the central aspects of several disciplines.It is of paramount importance to assess all new technology developments in comparison with recent research achievements in the wellestablished areas of scalable computing and communications, from industry and the scientific community.The 16 th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2016) provides high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present state-of-art advances and innovations in theoretical foundations, systems, algorithms, infrastructure, tools, testbeds, and applications for scalable computing and communications, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future.ScalCom 2016 is organised by LAAS-CNRS, University of Toulouse and held on July 18-21, 2016.It is the next edition of the successful series, previously held in Beijing China (2015); Bali Indonesia (2014), Chengdu China (2013), Paphos Cyprus (2011), Bradford UK (2010), Dalian, China (2009), etc.The 2016 edition revolves around five topics, which cover the currently areas of computer science and telecommunications for which scalability might represent a showstopper.They are 1) cloud computing, 2) GPU and accelerator computing, 3) modelling and simulation of complex systems, 4) extreme scale and exascale systems and 5) mobile computing and Internet of Things.The growing number of interesting and significant research papers submitted to ScalCom demonstrates that the conference is becoming an ever more important international event in the field of parallel and distributed computing research.In particular, the Program Committee of this edition received 44 submissions from 23 countries.On average each paper received 3.2 reviews, with no paper receiving fewer than two reviews.The result was the selection of 15 regular papers and 4 short papers for publication in these proceedings: the overall acceptance rate of full papers in the ScalCom 2016 is 34%.Among all ScalCom tracks, the "GPU, accelerators and novel architectures for Scalability-Rethinking" track was the most attractive one.