Following the successful PAAP’08 in Hefei, PAAP’09 in Nanning, PAAP’10 in Dalian, and PAAP’11 in Tianjin, PAAP’12 in Taipei, PAAP’14 in Beijing, PAAP’15 in Nanjing, PAAP’17 in Haikou, PAAP’18 in Taiwan, PAAP’19 in Shenzhen, the 12th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP’21) will be held in Xi'an, China, December 10-12, 2021. PAAP 2021 will provide a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present their research results and development activities in all aspects of parallel architectures, algorithms and programming techniques. We devoutly wish participants to learn the basic theory of a gradual approach, practical experimental data, new business models, and the latest academic trends from this conference.

PAAP 2021 will be organized by Xidian University. Directly under the Ministry of Education, XDU is a national key university featuring electronic and information science. According to the latest report of ESI, the engineering and computer science disciplines are listed among top 0.1% in the world, and computer science ranks 28th in the world. In the Fourth National Assessment of First-level disciplines, 3 disciplines at Xidian University have been rated A. Electronic Science and Technology is rated A+, ranking #1 nationwide, Information and Communication Engineering A, and Computer Science and Technology A-.