Special Issue on Application-based Architecture and Software

Classification such as image, voice, and time-series anomaly detection based on AI technology (for lack of a better term) sparked a new age of computing in many fields. A single application may command a new algorithm, a dedicated accelerator, if not an entire new vertical system. Usually, one application is considered too narrow to provide any insights especially in the publishing domain; we often forget that one problem and one solution is the starting point for most of our research and endeavors. In this special issue, we want to appreciate and highlight the single application that can be highly complex, composed of many parts, and its optimality can be hard even to express. The accelerator can be of many forms and complexity: - An optimized library dedicated to one specific application and data structure. - A vertical solution using CPU and accelerators such as -GPUs - FPGAs - Optical Computing - ASICs - Or just a complete HW solution. There is also the case where the application has no need of modifications, and it is about code reuse and optimality by a constant, and other arguments should be presented.

TOPICS OF INTEREST: We would like to present applications from the applied science where emphasis is about computing: especial interest in SW and HW systems where the user needs a fully vertical solution. - Time series analysis and anomaly detection - Custom application such as remote surgery and its computational needs - Classification with low latency - Sparse computations - Linear algebra - Classification - Applied Pruning in order to drive sparse computations.

Submission Guidelines: Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the International Journal of Parallel Programming website. Authors should submit through the online submission site at International Journal of Parallel Programming and select “SSDBM 2019" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.