Message from Program Co-Chairs: PDP 2020

Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone impressive change over recent years. New architectures and applications have rapidly become the central focus of the discipline. These changes are often a result of cross-fertilization of parallel and distributed technologies with other rapidly evolving technologies. This is the reason why the PDP conference continues to have a distinctive composition: a main track invites papers over a broad range of topics, and ten Special Sessions focus each on a particular sub-domain related to the Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Computing research fields. Each Special Session has its own Chair(s) and Program Committee and invites and selects its own papers, all under the umbrella of the overall conference structure. The growing number of interesting and significant research papers submitted to PDP demonstrates that the conference is becoming an ever more important international event in the field of parallel and distributed computing research. In particular, the Program Committee of this edition received 120 submissions from 31 countries. On average each paper received 3.5 reviews, with no paper receiving fewer than three reviews.