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CALL FOR PAPERS:

12th Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and
Simulation (HPCMS)

The 34th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and
Network-Based Computing
Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
25-27 March 2026

https://www.pdp2026.org/hpcms/

Deadline: October 31st, 2025

Contact: William Spataro - spataro@unical.it

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AIMS AND SCOPE
The development of models that allow computers to simulate the
evolution of artificial and natural systems is central to advancing
knowledge across scientific and engineering disciplines. In recent
decades, growing computational power has greatly expanded the scope of
such methodologies, enabling their application in research, industry,
and the quantitative study of complex systems. This progress has
fostered both the extensive use of numerical methods for solving
differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, PIC) and the
exploration of alternative paradigms such as Cellular Automata,
Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and Swarm Intelligence. These
complementary approaches have proven particularly effective when
conventional simulation techniques are constrained by spatial or
temporal limitations, opening new possibilities for modelling complex
phenomena.

Now in its twelfth edition at PDP, the HPCMS Workshop aims to serve as
a platform for a multidisciplinary community of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, practitioners, and experts from leading
universities, institutions, agencies, and companies in Computational
Science. Its mission is to foster the exchange of perspectives on
trends, challenges, and state-of-the-art advances in computational
problems and high-performance computing, with applications spanning
engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology,
sociology, traffic control, economics, and beyond.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- High Performance Computing in computational science:
intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications
- Complex systems modelling and simulation
- Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm
Intelligence implementations
- Integrated approach to optimization and simulation
- MPI, OpenMP, Sycl and CUDA applications in Computational Science
- Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to
optimization in Computational Science
- High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g.,
biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and
humanities problems
- Performance models and their integration into the design of
efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous platforms
- Hardware approaches (e.g., FPGAs, Neuromorphic computing, etc) of
high performance computing in modeling and simulation
- HPC Applications in Quantum Computing (e.g., Optimization and
Scheduling, Simulation, etc)

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: 31 October 2025
Acceptance notification: 10 December 2026
Camera ready due: 27 January 2026
Conference: 25 - 27 March 2026

Submission guidelines
Authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE
Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt) and
follow format guidelines found at
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
For submission, please refer to the Easychair submission system as
indicated in the Conference webpage, selecting the "High Performance
Computing in Modeling and Simulation (HPCMS) submission link
(https://www.pdp2026.org/hpcms/).
Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only
the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the
authors own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries.

Chairs
William Spataro - University of Calabria, Italy
Giuseppe A. Trunfio - University of Sassari, Italy
Rocco Rongo - University of Calabria, Italy
Andrea Giordano - ICAR-CNR, Italy
Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy

HPCMS Program Committee
Gladys Utrera, Universitat Polit cnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain
Donato D'Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy
Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Lou D Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA
Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy
Marisa Gil, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy
Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK
Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy
Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy
Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy
Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Davide Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy
Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK
Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy
Giuseppe Agapito, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
Xavier Martorell, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Davide Macri, ICAR-CNR, Italy