PDCS 2012
                     Las Vegas, Nevada
                     November 2012

The PDCS'12 conference was again a complete success.  Our conference
continues to be a truly international conference.  We had a significant
number of papers from South America, Asia and Europe as well as from the
USA and other parts of the globe. 


In addition to a strong technical program, we had two excellent Keynote
Presentation.

* Professor Mario Gerla from the University of California, Los Angeles
  presented his Keynote Address entitled 
 
    Vehicular Cloud Computing

  He discussed current work as well as future research directions in this
  relatively new area of research.

* Dr. Helmar Burkhart from the University of Basel, Switzerland will present
  the tutorial "The Why and How of Productive High-Performance Computing".
  The tutorial was an excellent introduction to different tools, languages
  and systems currently available in high performance systems.

* Dr. Fernando G. Tinetti from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
  for organizing a special session called "High Performance Processing (HPC)
  in Clusters.

* For the first time we had two (last minute) Invited Presentations. Since
  these two presentations were received very well by the audience, we plan
  to continue with these invited presentation in the near future.

      Professor Gurdip Singh for the Kansas State University presented the
      talk entitled "Methodologies for Optimizing Distributed Algorithms and
      Middleware."

      Professor Teofilo F. Gonzalez presented the talk entitled "Restiction
      and Relaxation Approximation Algorithms" 

Awards Ceremony

* The Best Reviewer Award was given to Professor Arthur H. Lee from the
  Claremont McKenna College in Claremont CA, USA. He has been an outstanding
  reviewer for PDCS and other IASTED conferences.  This is the second Reviewer
  Award ever given at PDCS and we will continue with this type of awards in
  the future.

* Best Paper Awards
  There were 59 papers submitted and 31 papers were part of the PDCS final
  program. The papers were partitioned into several different technical
  sessions.  About 20% of the papers were nominated (by the reviewers) for
  the Best Paper Awards, and four papers were awarded the Best Paper Awards.  
  The awards were announced during the Banquet.  The four papers that
  received this award were: 

  * Best Paper Award in the Area of Distributed Software Systems and
    Applications:
       A Distributed Resource Allocation Algorithm using Fuzzy Logic,
       by Francisco Ribacionka, Liria M. Sato, Luciana Arantes from
       University of São Paulo, Brazil and University Pierre et Marie
       Currie/CNRS/INRIA, France.

  * Best Paper Award in the Area of High Performance Computing:
       "A Software Architecture for Distributed Volume Rendering on
       HPC Systems," by Stefan Zellmann and Ulrich Lang from the
       University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

  * Best Paper Award in the Area of Parallel Algorithms and Architectures:
       "An Efficient Out-of-Core Implementation of Block Cholesky
       Decomposition on a Multi-GPU System," by Lin Cheng, Hyunsu Cho,
       Peter Yoon, and Jiajia Zhao, from Trinity College, Hartford, CT USA.

  * Best Paper Award in the Area of Networking:
       "Shorter Delay Intermittent Communication based on Pseudo Speed
       Estimation in WSNs," by Takanori Takehira and Hiroaki Higaki, from
       the Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan.


We have started the initial preparation for the 25th IASTED
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing
and Systems (PDCS'13) and we are considering several alternatives
to enhance our technical program. You will all receive further
announcements in the near future and we hope we can count
again with your support.

Thank you very much for all your support and your efforts to make
PDCS'12 a very successful conference, and we hope to see you all at
the PDCS'13 Conference.  Please keep in mind the possibility of
organizing special sessions, and feel free to contact IASTED
(calgary@IASTED.com) and/or me (teo@cs.ucsb.edu) with any comments
and suggestions about possible improvements to the conference.



Organizing Committee

  Conference Chair:
    Prof. Teofilo Gonzalez - University of California -
                             Santa Barbara, CA USA
                    
  Publication Chair
    Prof. Gurdip Singh - Kansas State University,
                         Manhattan, KS USA 



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