Following the traditions of previous successful NPC conferences, the aim of the 9th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2012), September 6-8, 2012, is to be an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their excellent ideas and experiences in all system fields of network and parallel computing.

Topics include:

Virtualization techniques, tools, and applications Parallel programming models and languages Parallel language compiler and run-time support Parallel and distributed systems Network architecture and protocol design Network security Network storage Network reliability, security, and dependability Network algorithms Communication technology Scheduling and load balancing Advanced Web and proxy services Middleware frameworks and toolkits Performance modeling, prediction, and tuning Multi-core and cluster computing Ubiquitous communications and networks USN and RFID Embedded and pervasive computing Peer-to-peer networks Social network and services Multimedia communications Cloud computing and networks Machine-to-machine communications Run-time systems Operating systems Resource management Data mining