DAPSYS 2008 is a major international event for presenting original research, novel concepts and methods, and outstanding results. Contributions that investigate parallel and distributed techniques, algorithms, models and

applications; present innovative software tools, environments and middleware; focus on various aspects of Grid computing; introduce novel methods for development, deployment, testing and evaluation are invited.

DAPSYS 2008 will feature a special focus on desktop Grid computing. Contributions that investigate desktop Grids and volunteer computing systems, large-scale computing applications, present recent advances of scalability, fault-tolerance and security in desktop grid systems are especially welcome.

Topics of interest of DAPSYS include but are not limited to the following:

• Featured topic: Desktop Grid computing
• Cluster and Grid systems
• Distributed and Grid middleware
• Parallel and distributed programming languages and algorithms
• Formal models for parallel and distributed computing
• Software engineering and development tools
• Autonomous and self-distributed systems
• Problem solving environments
• Grid architectures
• Grid resource management
• Grid workflow
• Grid application support tools
• Distributed information management
• Distributed storage systems
• Advanced cluster/Grid applications