ISPA 2013: Message from the program chairs

Welcome to the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA-2013), held in Melbourne, Australia, 16-18 July, 2013. ISPA-2013 fosters state-of-theart research in the area of parallel and distributed computing and networking, including reliability, fault tolerance, and security issues as well as algorithms and performance evaluation and measurement in parallel and distributed computing environments. ISPA-2013 also provides an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of parallel and distributed computing and networking.