The topics of interest to be covered by PDCN 2014 include, but are not limited to:

    Algorithms
    Architectures
    Cluster Computing
    Compilers and Languages
    Data Mining
    Distributed Databases
    Data Structures for Parallel and Distributed Systems
    Heterogeneous Computing
    Interconnection Networks
    Mobile Computing
    Operating Systems
    Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling
    Queuing systems
    Reliability and availability
    Scheduling
    Web Computing
    Peer-to-peer Systems
    Pervasive Computing
    Bioinformatics
    Security
    Grid and Cloud Computing
    Embedded Parallel and Distributed Systems
    Multi and Many Core systems
    Load balancing
    Network Algorithms
    Scalability
    Fault Tolerance in Parallel and Distributed Systems
    Social Network Analysis
    Parallel and Distributed Software
    Data Intensive Computing
    Distributed Knowledge-based systems
    Distributed Real-Time Systems
    High Performance Computing
    Memory and I/O Systems
    Optical Networks and Computing
    Parallel Programming
    Protocols
    Real-time and embedded systems
    Resource allocation and virtualization
    Supercomputing
    Wireless Networks